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Therapeutic Coaching

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In this space, you don’t need to have all the answers or even the right words. Here, you can simply be as you are. Uncover the patterns holding you back. Develop a resilient, connected and aware Self. Reach the full potential of your authentic life.

Life’s challenges often take us to places where words feel too small. That’s where the power of expressive therapy begins. Through color, movement, storytelling, and imagination, we’ll gently explore the parts of you that long to be seen and heard. Together, we’ll create a bridge between what’s inside and the world around you, in a safe container devoid of judgement and held by unconditional positive regard. You don’t need to be an artist – just open to the process. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, untethered, or seeking a deeper connection to yourself, this is a space to breathe, to feel, and to rediscover your unique rhythm. Healing unfolds naturally when given the space to bloom.

Transform your mental and emotional pain to transcend your current struggles and awaken to an empowered life.

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I change.”

CARL ROGERS

Therapy doesn’t just help:

Anxiety

Depression
Grief
Self-confident, self-esteem
Neurodivergency

Your journey of individuation
Self-acceptance of all of your parts
The shadow self
Practices for centering and reducing anxiety

But it also explores

CLIENT TESTEMONIAL

“It’s strange to say but I’m happy. It felt like I found a missing piece of the puzzle. And I finally felt I feel into place. “

All Services

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.
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Therapeutic Coaching

Combines therapy and coaching approaches to help you expand self-awareness, inner resourcing and freedom of choice — transcending outdated or externally given self-constructs and limiting beliefs. Outcomes include enhanced emotional communication, self-acceptance and resilience which leads to greater clarity, renewed meanings and purpose in life.
Expressive Art Group

In the Creative Connection process participants explore a sequence of art experiences expressing their feelings non-verbally from the felt-body experience, that leads them into their inner realms. A sacred space emerges through collective, side-by-side inner experiencing, where each person becomes safer to freely express themselves.

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“Creativity is like Freedom: Once you taste it, you cannot live without it. It is a transformative force enhancing Self-esteem & Self-empowerment.”

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.

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LATEST FEEDBACK

“ntegrative art therapy can be an effective tool for accessing the unconscious and processing trauma for several reasons”

CLIENT M.F

Your therapist

Rita Cotrim

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.

About me