When you are facing anxiety, you do not simply battle anxious thoughts. With the anxious thoughts, your palms start to sweat, your fingers shake, and your breathing becomes shallow – it is a full-body experience. Somatic is a term which…
Humour has always been used to cope with and make light of challenging situations. Bringing humour into a serious topic is not meant to belittle its weight, but instead lift some of it for the recipient. Court jesters of the…
Art therapy provides a space to reflect on oneself and relate and connect with others. Creating art with coworkers opens a different context to collaborate and share rather than the usual workplace goal-oriented frenzy. London Art Therapy Centre’s Hephzibah Kaplan…
As a child, Cecilie Browne grew up alongside giant beeches and ancient oak trees, feeling oneness when hiding within the hollow of a trunk. At age 20, her connection with nature manifested into activism when she joined thousands of women…
Launching soon is Pia Jones and Sarah Pimenta’s new trio of Therapeutic FairyTales exploring how nature can support children and families through different feeling states. Into The Forest is for children with anxiety; The Sky Fox for children feeling isolated;…
From a nervous disposition to phobias to a full-blown anxiety attack, how do we understand and work with anxiety? Of necessity, people do need a certain degree of vigilance for their own protection. How then do we assess what is…
On the 6th December 2018, I had the privilege to deliver an art therapy workshop to a client group from the Silverlining Brain Injury Charity. Their mission states their goal is; "to unite, engage and rehabilitate all those affected by brain injury…
On 22 September 2018 we were delighted to welcome Professor Shaun McNiff, veteran art therapist, prolific author and wonderful artist to run a one-day symposium for London Art Therapy Centre. Many art therapists have read his books and for those…
London Art Therapy Centre was delighted to run a workshop for children with Stargardt’s eye disease, a progressive condition which affects the central vision in both eyes, on 15 September 2018. The Stargardt charity were themselves running a session alongside,…
Article edited by Hephzibah Kaplan with written contributions (initialled) and more from (in alphabetical order) Fawzia Afifi, Elisabetta Cittadini, Auriel Eagleton, Elaine Zaple Gulliver, Louise Higgs, Pia Jones, Sally Skaife, Taylor Smart & Colleen Steiner Westling. Photographs by Pia Jones.