FREE Therapeutic use of Creative Arts Taster Session
Come along and discover for your self how powerful and beneficial the person-centred approach can be when combined with creative arts.
Creating art is therapeutic. It can help with stress, trauma, mental health and wellbeing. Creative arts can help with processing emotional material, tap into material from the subconscious, and it can help us develop valuable insights leading to growth, self-awareness and integration.
Working with creative arts is a powerful medium. And when the person centred, non-directive, interpretive approach is bought together with creative arts, the result is a powerful and yet safe therapeutic approach.
You will have the opportunity to engage with a short experiential exercise with art. You will learn about some of the history of the approach see the approach in action, and you can find out more about our courses.
Our courses are suitable for;
Counsellors
Psychotherapists
Art Therapists
Coaches
Psychologists
Social Workers
Mental Health practitioners
Community Artists
Support Workers
...and anyone who wants to develop their creativity and work therapeutically with creative arts.
Our courses will help you develop person-centred art therapy skills which can be used in a variety of roles and settings. Our course can enable you to work as a creative arts counsellor, creative arts coach, therapeutic arts practitioner and other similar roles.
This is an experiential workshop and participants are encouraged to have art materials such as paper, pens, pencils, or pastels available, or a digital art app.
The session is open to anyone, but will be of particular interest to student and qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, art therapists, coaches and community art practitioners who want to work therapeutically with art.
Ani de la Prida is a creative arts counsellor, psychotherapist, supervisor, senior lecturer, author and founder of the Association for Person Centred Creative Arts (APCCA ). Ani has taught on counselling, psychotherapy and person-centred art therapy courses for fifteen years. She currently has a small private practice and her research interest is in creative arts and the use of digital media in therapy.
Recent publications include; Person-Centred Creative Arts Therapy in The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy & Counselling. (July 2023) Pluralistic Therapy Primer (2022 PCCS) , and What Works in Counselling and Psychotherapy Relationships (2022 BACP). She recently explored the topic of digital disinhibition in therapy on the BBC Radio 4 podcast The Digital Human which you can listen to here.
