About Me
I came to Art Psychotherapy at age 14, as an incredibly curious, creative young adult who translated symbolic images in their mind, and discovered that others started to understand the thoughts, feelings and experiences that I found hard to verbalise when I externalised them through artmaking and imagery. My then Art Teacher suggested I was using my art as my own therapy, which started a 10-year journey to becoming an Art Psychotherapist, helping others translate their inner worlds through creativity and mark-making.
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I went on to study BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London in 2013, then MA Art Psychotherapy Practice at Leeds Beckett's Art Therapy Northern Programme in 2017.
I am passionate about sharing my knowledge and experience in craft and artmaking, and blending this with a love of community and wellbeing.
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I now live in Sussex and enjoy being part of social, political, and environmental groups here. I am also a lifelong lover of the sea, and try to spend as much time there as my body will allow, as a lived experienced practitioner living with multiple chronic illnesses and Neurodiversity.
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When not working or creating, I love to travel, listen to live music, garden, and spend time with friends.
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The time will come when,
with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving at your own door,
in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here.
Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread, Give back your heart to itself,
to the stranger who has loved you all your life,
whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf the photographs, the desperate notes,peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
- 'Love After Love' By Derek Walcott
