Art Psychotherapy Group

NEW GROUP DATES AVAILABLE

Fridays from 1pm-3pm

Location: The Terrace – Taunton – TA1 1DG

Cost: £15 per person, including materials

Jane Hall runs a creative well-being group every Friday afternoon, where people who are experiencing mental health challenges meet to express themselves through art-making. The groups are a safe, non-judgmental, confidential space to gently explore your difficulties with a shared, collective understanding.

Jane is an art therapist, and facilitates relaxed groups, to promote an opportunity for people to share experiences (if they wish) with others. The groups run for two hours, and you can stay for as short or as long as you wish, and your artwork is yours. What you create in the group is your choice, and there are varied materials available - clay, paints, charcoal, pencil, pens, collage, soft pastels and oil pastels, and various papers.

This group is for a maximum of 6 people. New dates starting soon!

How art psychotherapy works

Art psychotherapy involves using art materials to express non-verbally how you are feeling, and the creative process and final image can often not be what you were intending. This is called working with unconscious processes - the mind (and body) expresses what it needs to. It is in the process of artmaking that the brain can make sense of experiences, and make new pathways that give you new, more comfortable, experiences. Research shows that art psychotherapy can help process traumatic experiences, and it is in the development of a good enough therapeutic relationship. between the client, the therapist and the art making, that change happens. It is the artmaking and final image that 'hold' and transform difficult experiences, and the non-verbal mode of expression offers a gentle way of expressing what, sometimes, cannot be put into words.

The creative well being groups can provide:

  • relief from social isolation.

  • a collective understanding and support with living with mental health difficulties, and the potential to make social connections.

  • a safe, quiet space, where we listen and respect each other.

  • there is no good or bad art, creative experimentation is encouraged, and people often find psychological relief through creative expression.

Individual Art Psychotherapy also available. Please contact us to book.

 

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