Youth Arts & Health Trust

15/01/2026

14/11/2025

Celebrating Children in Need today and the huge difference they have made in growing our Arts Therapy Service since 2017. Here is a wonderful and inspiring brief interview with one of the first young people we ever offered arts therapy sessions to 🥰

We loved celebrating Children in Need and saying a huge thanks for our funding for our arts therapy service for anxiety and depression. Children in Need have supported us since 2017 and we have been able to make a huge difference in offering arts therapy to those on lower incomes who were also strug...

13/11/2025

We're looking for 15-18 year olds to help us co-design our arts therapy groups and arts activities and would like to come along to a focus group on Sunday 30th November 1-2pm at Exeter Library. They might be someone who has accessed our sessions before or someone who cares about mental health and young people and would like to make a difference. It will be a friendly and relaxed session. Please get in touch via info@youthartsandhealth.org or PM us. There's an arts kit to take home as a thank you for everyone who comes along.

10/11/2025

Sami, our Clinical Lead, and Zara, one of our Trustees talking on today about the impact of arts therapy for children and young people and also of the huge difference has made in helping us provide our service. Listen here :)

Sincerely celebrating the difference is making for our arts therapy service for children and young people today. Sami our Clinical Lead, and Zara one of our Trustees interviewed for this morning, giving their moving and heartfelt reflections. https://lnkd.in/g_bN78qY #...

25/10/2025

Interested in arts therapy for someone you know? Incase you missed it and fancy a listen. Our interview on BBC Radio Devon which talks about our history and what the arts psychotherapies are all about. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0m2zgdk

Laura Blatherwick describes how creativity helps to change the lives of local families

22/10/2025

An interview with our Founder/Director in University of Exeter Alumni News this month. We're keen to let University students and their parents/carers know we are here and offer arts psychotherapies for those up to 25 and can help with anxiety, depression, stress, isolation and the pressures of university life.

Alumna Laura Blatherwick (Drama, 2002) is an arts therapist and charity director of the Youth Arts and Health Trust (YAHT) and today, Friday 10 October - World Mental Health Day – the Trust is relaunching.

13/10/2025

11/10/2025

Our hearts are full of gratitude for our amazing community of funders, supporters and colleagues after opening our new arts therapy rooms in Exeter Library last night!

09/10/2025

A parent asked us today "how do I explain what arts therapy is to my child?". Here's a link to our website and a video we made to help with this.

Similar to counselling or other kinds of psychotherapy, arts therapy can help people to improve their mental health and wellbeing. People often come to arts therapy because they want to feel better in themselves and more confident about their next steps in life. This might be because of depression o...

30/09/2025

What exactly is arts therapy? We get asked this frequently as you would expect. One of the strong advantages of an arts therapy approach is the containing aspect of the arts medium when experienced in a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship. Clients can proceed at their own pace using the creative process as a means of personal expression, identifying and connecting emotions and making sense of experiences that are hard to say in words. Arts Therapists are qualified to MA level and registered with the HCPC and/or other professional bodies. Drop us a message to find out more

26/09/2025

An honour to be handed this Highly Commended Award last night on behalf of the Youth Arts & Health Trust arts therapy team and to be part of this fabulous event celebrating so many groups and individuals who make a difference in their communities. Congrats to all the nominees, finalists and winners!