Arts & craft page

During counselling sessions I like to involve art and crafts, especially in the early sessions. This allows for a slow and proper building of trust, for the client and I to get to know each other a bit better and to build a safe place to share, listen, hear, witness, validate, recover and heal. Art allows expression, for a story to be told without mastery of verbal language. Art and craft encourages using all senses and a more complete engagement. It also gives a chance for the areas of the brain that hold or are reacting to trauma, past and present to switch off, even if momentarily and allow other parts of the brain that switch on. I also do my best to ensure that each session has fun, failure, success, a therapeutic framework and most of all, connection. Keeping all this in mind, I thought it may be helpful, especially for families who are locked in, to share some of the arts and crafts that they may be able to do at home.
The Arts & Crafts page can be found by clicking here.