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Harli Tree Exhibition at the London Art Therapy Centre

The London Art Therapy Centre is the first dedicated art therapy centre for private practice in the UK. Opened in 2010 we have seen the growth in the number of practitioners working from the centre and the number of clients,…

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Art + Healing Exhibition

Almost a year in the planning, London Art Therapy Centre recently collaborated with Cate and Melanie from the Art Therapy Agency to host a major public art therapy exhibition. The artworks from behind the closed doors of art therapy rarely…

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Clinical Meeting: On Laughing with the Client

The title of our meeting this month was “Provocative Therapy: the use of humour and reverse psychology in medicine and psychotherapy”. Led by Brian Kaplan, a medical doctor and provocative therapist, and his wife Hephzibah Kaplan – art therapist and…

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Art Therapy for Learning Disabilities

Art therapy can be enormously beneficial to those with learning disabilities, and thousands of parents, carers and professionals have already discovered how getting creative can help deal with challenging behaviour and give a better understanding of emotions. Art therapy is…

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Therapeutic Values

We returned from the Christmas holidays to consider something which is on many clients’ and therapists’ minds every January: money. As a follow-on from the clinical meeting last May (Penny for your Thoughts), this session involved a psychoanalytic exploration of…

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Working at the London Art Therapy Centre – an intern from the USA

Working at the London Art Therapy Centre was an era of firsts for me, you might say. It was the first time I had an internship, the first time I actually worked for a business that relied on me to…

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The London Art Therapy Centre Practioners’ Exhibition (April 2013)

As part of our ongoing programme of art exhibitions here at the centre we thought it would be interesting to have an art exhibition of the various art therapists who work here. Art therapists and art psychotherapists usually come from…

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The Mentalizing Stance

We were pleased to be joined this month by Ellen Wade, a psychodyanamic psychotherapist and bodywork therapist, who came to talk to us about mentalization. Ellen works for the Haringey personality disorders service, which uses mentalization as part of its…

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On forgiveness and Letting Go

For November’s clinical meeting we had a special guest speaker: Robin Shohet, author of several books about supervision including Passionate Supervision and Supervision as Transformation, who came to talk to us about forgiveness. This is a subject he admits to having a personal…

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The Wise Old Man

“Close your eyes and make sure you are comfortable and relaxed before we start…. Now, imagine yourself walking, alone, down a busy high street. Suddenly, you see a small side street; you have never noticed it or walked down that…

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