About Art Therapy
Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses art as the primary form of communication. Art Therapy can be helpful for adults, adolescents and children. It can be helpful for people who want to explore such things as relationship difficulties, feelings of low self-esteem, sadness, fear or phobias. People who have experienced trauma or abuse can, in time, come to manage the feelings and make sense of symptoms currently experienced. The symptoms that people suffer as a result of a difficult past can be wide ranging and can prevent a person from living a full life, Symptoms such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, eating disorders, self-harm, feelings of emptiness, grief, a lack of a secure identity and psychotic episodes. However this list is not exhaustive and the words for how a person feels are not always easily found. Art Therapy can provide a gentle approach to putting the struggle into words. It can also be helpful for those who have struggled to use talking therapies as it can provide access to the unconscious and bring about new perspectives of past trauma or stresses. I provide both individual and group therapy.
Elizabeth King Art Therapist 
Hi Elizabeth.
I don’t know if you remember me, I was a member of the therapeutic community at the Red House in 2012.
I just wanted to write and let you know how I was doing.
Marisa and I have been married for nearly 4 years (in February) and while we have our ups and downs we make it work.
I wanted to thank you for all you did for us at TC. We still use art as therapy, to relax and refocus. We learned more than we realised from you!
Thanks again.
Tracy Lancaster. Xx