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Rooted to
BEING
Deep therapeutic work. Personal transformation. Kindness in action.A radically compassionate mental health practice in Bristol and Glastonbury.
Welcome dear being,
Integrative psychoterapeutic counseling combines traditional talk therapy techniques with creative expression through art-making to provide a flexible approach to meet individual needs - it helps individuals of all ages (despite perceived creative skills) gain insights into their thoughts & feelings, untangle lived experiences and access parts of their story in ways that may be otherwise difficult to express verbally. It draws from multiple theories such as humanistic, gestalt, psychodynamic, IFS, and transactional analysis. This is an embodied therapy that privileges expressive forms of communication that encompass mind, body and feeling in a supportive non-judgemental setting.
WHAT WE OFFER
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Integrative Counselling & Psychoterapy
Combines traditional talk therapy with mind-body-feeling expression through art-making. Gentle, projective, creative techniques, starting from an image, music, gesture, clay, writing, puppetry, movement or other creative activities to explore your internal world and parts dialogue with the support of the therapist empathic listening and witnessing.
Please email to join the waiting list.
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Therapeutic Art Groups
Weekly community working group using the therapeutic arts. We will explore our inner world and identity intersectionality through expressive art-therapy techniques within a trauma-informed, non-judgemental safe container Everyone is an artist.
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Workshops and Retreats
Themes ranging from Eco Art-therapy, Identity Intersectionalities, Inner child & Shadow work.
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Diversity & Inclusion training
Does your organisation needs help in taking steps to become more inclusive? Our 3h interactive workshop provides education and a reflective practie on the subject.
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Jungian Coaching
Supporting your connection with Self, through your Individuation proccess, exploring archetypes and concepts such as persona, nima and shadow work.
Expressive arts therapy uses movement, drawing, painting, storytelling, roleplay, improvisation, sculpting, music/sound, writing in a holding and safe emotional space to enable individuals experiencing and expressing feelings in an embodied way and and access their unconscious, where trauma is often stored.
This is an alternative path for self-exploration and a way to communicate with the the therapist or facilitator beyond words and the constraints of the rational mind, that repeats patterns of thinking that keep us stuck.
When the client creates art in a session, allowing to be witnessed, she is opening a window to her soul to me as a therapist. I am in awe as we process the strong images of self-expression that help us comprehend her inner world and gather more meaning from each visit.
Expressive Arts
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
Benefits
Integrative art therapy can be an effective tool for accessing the unconscious and processing trauma for several reasons:
❋ Symbolic expression: Art-making allows individuals to express themselves symbolically, tapping into the language of the unconscious mind. Images,
❋ Non-verbal communication: Trauma can sometimes be stored in the body and unconscious mind, making it challenging for individuals to express verbally.
❋ Creative exploration: Engaging in creative activities stimulates imagination and intuition, enabling individuals to explore their inner worlds in a safe and non-threatening way.
❋ Non-verbal communication: Trauma can sometimes be stored in the body and unconscious mind, making it challenging for individuals to express verbally.
❋ Creative exploration: Engaging in creative activities stimulates imagination and intuition, enabling individuals to explore their inner worlds in a safe and non-threatening way.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
I have an MA in Clinical Psychology (ISPA, Lisbon) and a Diploma in Integrative Art-Psychoterapy from The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, a leading arts-psychotherapy institute in London. I’m a BACP member and an Integrative Counsellor (trainee) at Heart-to-Heart Bristol. I’ve created the Rooted to Being project to provide low-cost therapeutic services, resources, workshops for the community as an expressive arts facilitator and therapeutic coach drawing from my 8 years studies within mental health and my own transformative self-journey. I’m a passionate believer in the connective power of nature, imagination, and integration of shadow and inner child work.