CREATIVExpressions Art Therapy

27/01/2023

Free drop-in therapeutic Art group at Best Days Vintage shop, for 16-25 year olds. Friday evenings: 5.15-6.15pm.
Facilitator: Amy-Jasmine Tookey

27/01/2023

This Friday we launch our first free art therapy seasion with help from

Just drop in to get involved

01/05/2022

https://wednesdayschild.co.uk/products/art-therapy-box

This art pack, carefully curated by our lived-experience Art Psychotherapist Amy-Jasmine Tookey, contains a range of high-quality art materials to support and encourage creativity, self-exploration, curiosity and self-care. The therapeutic benefits of art in eating disorder recovery are well documen...

02/03/2022

EATING DISORDERS AWARENESS WEEK: AN ADULTS PERSPECTIVE ON ART THERAPY AND EATING DISORDERS

Today we continue joining in with the Eating Disorders Awareness Week campaign.

In this short film C shares her experience of group and individual art therapy for adults. The film illustrates her therapeutic process and how art making enabled C to express herself and reflect upon her eating disorder...

See more videos of art therapy service users sharing their experiences here: https://www.baat.org/About-Art-Therapy/Art-Therapy-service-users-share-their-experiences

28/01/2022

Sensory based Art Therapy is one of my passions. In the CREATIVExpressions Art Studio there is a lot of opportunity for sensory play to process trauma.
This video describes beautifully the value of sensorimotor therapy.

22/04/2021

The outside covid safe therapy space is up and running. 😊

31/03/2021

26/03/2021

We’re thrilled to finally unveil our six week art psychotherapy course.

This six-week course will take place online every Wednesday between 6pm and 7.30pm.

Explore the sensory benefits of art therapy in recovery and enjoy the opportunity to use each session for conversation, creativity and self-exploration.

Book now:
https://wednesdayschild.co.uk/collections/events/products/art-therapy-for-e-d-recovery-6-week

12/03/2021

Coming 7th April, our first 6 week workshop with Wednesday’s Child

With lived-experience Art Psychotherapist Amy-Jasmine Tookey, this six-week course will take place online every Wednesday between 6pm and 7.30pm. Explore the sensory benefits of art therapy in recovery and enjoy the opportunity to use each session for conversation, creativity and self-exploration. W...

08/03/2021

6 week Adult workshop for supporting wellbeing for people with eating disorders

This workshop can be tailored towards any client group. Enquire now about commissioning an 'Art Therapy for recovery and wellbeing' group like this for your organisation:
Creativexpressionsartherapy@gmail.com

This six week course will take place online, every Wednesday evening between 6 and 730pm. Explore the sensory benefits of art therapy in recovery, and use each session for conversation, creativity and self exploration. * All donations are greatly appreciated to help us to continue to support others....

07/03/2021

Are you a teacher or pastoral lead in a school environment, now watching the clock tick down to March 8th and to ‘full school’ return?

Perhaps you’re already worrying about what the picture of mental health might be among children who haven’t been coming into school as part of the keyworker cohort in recent months.

We wanted to make it even easier to help you identify likely issuesof an eating disorder.

So, as a result, we present you with this simple and memorable seven-step guidance… conveniently labelled SCHOOLS.

SOLITUDE
Does the young person appear to be preferring more time alone, perhaps in a secretive manner, and certainly engaging less sociably than they once did?

CONVERSATIONS
Has the person’s dialogue shifted to an obsession with talking about weight and food and movement and exercise?

HEIGHTENED AGITATION AND ACTIVITY
Is the person increasingly uptight at the smallest thing, perhaps more teary & sensitive? And is activity heightened too?

OBVIOUS WEIGHT CHANGE
Do you feel the child’s weight has changed dramatically? (Weight loss is not the only indicator of an e/d but can be one)

OVERWHELMING SADNESS
Is this youngster seeming depressed, teary and unable to enhance their mood even in circumstances they might once have found happiness?

LOSS OF JOY AND ENTHUSIASTIC INTERACTION
Are you seeing signs that this young person just doesn’t have their spark anymore, and that they’ll go out of their way to interact in class or at mealtimes?

SECRECY AND DECEIT
Have you noticed that the youngster seems to be telling lies, avoiding honest answers about their situation? Are they making excuses to go to the toilet regularly? Do you see them hiding or stealing or hoarding food? Have their patterns of behaviour in terms of honesty and trust suddenly disappeared?

Let us know what you think of this list.