What is Creative Counselling?

Creative counselling interventions are therapeutic techniques that use non-traditional, expressive methods to help clients explore their emotions, thoughts, and behaviours. These interventions focus on encouraging clients to engage in creative activities to express themselves and process difficult emotions or experiences. They are especially helpful for individuals who may find it difficult to express themselves verbally.

Creative Counselling combines talking therapies with creative interventions. As a model, Creative Counselling fundamentally respects a counsellor’s core training model (Integrative, Person-Centred, Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Transactional Analysis…) and compliments the core approach with Creative Interventions.

When we work from a Creative Counselling approach, we prioritise our clients’ preferences placing them at the core of the work and meeting them where they are at by incorporating their interests and passions. I offer exploration of using cards like emotions cards, photographs, objects, journalling, meditation, breath work, use of working with paint, shape, doodles, visualisation, drawing, stories, sand and clay, to mention a few. Can be in person or adapted online also.

We give expression, movement, a voice, a shape, a symbol, a metaphor and colour to a client’s experience bringing it to life in a way that often words alone can’t do by helping clients to connect with their inner wisdom and creating a path for the unconscious to be made conscious.