Sketch To Express

25/12/2025

Wishing everyone warmest season's greetings and a healthy, happy New Year.

27/10/2025

Your mindset is a powerful thing — especially when life feels heavy or uncertain.
Instead of putting pressure on yourself, try practicing self-kindness. 🥰
A simple mantra, repeated throughout your day, can help anchor your mind and soothe your nervous system. 😌

Train your brain to stay calm and choose a mantra that resonates with you. 🔆

How to Find Your Personal Mantra:

✅Select a phrase that speaks to your heart.

✅Choose words that reflect what you need more of — calm, confidence, love, or clarity.

Here are some to get you started:

• I let go of what I cannot change.
• I am surrounded by love.
• I release all doubt and welcome faith.
• My mind is clear and focused.
• I breathe in calm, I breathe out tension.
• Strength flows through me.
• I deserve peace and happiness.

Find the one that feels right for you and repeat it as many times as you like, morning, noon and night.
This small, mindful practice can bring you clarity, balance and peace. 💚

07/10/2025

✨Free artistic expression can open doors to deeper communication and can be a powerful pathway to healing and wellbeing.

Every drawing tells a story - and every story deserves to be heard. 💛

🌱 Drawing and Talking is a gentle, therapeutic process that can:
✔️Reveal hidden aspects of the mind
✔️Provide a safe outlet for emotions
✔️Support movement through different emotional states

Each session at Sketch To Express offers a supportive space to explore your inner world and strengthen the connection between your creativity and wellbeing. 😌

Step into the world of Drawing and Talking, and discover what your art has to say. 💭

24/09/2025

✏️ Drawing is a safe space where feelings find their voice. 💬🤍

18/09/2025

✨ Supporting Young People This New School Year

The start of a new academic year can feel overwhelming for many young people. New teachers, new routines, shifting friendships, higher expectations – all on top of the challenges that come with growing and changing.

That’s why I’m offering 15% off my standard price for Drawing and Talking Therapy. ✏️💬

This gentle, creative approach gives children and young people a safe space to explore their feelings and build resilience in a way that feels natural and supportive.

If someone you care about is finding things tough right now, please get in touch – I’d love to share more about how I can help. 🤍

🌐 Find out more at: www.sketchtoexpress.co.uk
📩 Or message me directly.

17/09/2025

🌱 Did you know?
CAMHS reports that ANXIETY is the most common reason for referrals.

💭 Drawing and Talking is designed to complement CAMHS and other specialist therapies.
It’s an ideal interim support tool while waiting for appointments - and can also be used afterwards to work alongside external agencies.

✨ Sketch To Express understands that every child deserves the space to be heard, understood, and supported. 😌

10/09/2025

✨ Sometimes we need to make our own rainbows.
When life feels heavy or skies are grey, we can choose to create little sparks of colour—through kindness, appreciation, creativity, or noticing the beauty and love around us. 🌈

30/08/2025

21/08/2025

✍️ Engaging in drawing activates the parasympathetic nervous system (rest-and-digest), lowering cortisol and calming the fight-or-flight response.

🗣️Talking therapy helps the prefrontal cortex (thinking brain) make sense of overwhelming experiences, reducing the dominance of the amygdala (fear/emotional centre).

🔁 Repeated safe, creative, and reflective practices rewire the brain to respond more calmly to future stressors.

😌 🧠 Drawing activates the right hemisphere (creative, emotional), while talking therapy engages the left (logical, verbal), encouraging whole-brain integration.

09/08/2025

⬇️ free resources below ⬇️

Mandalas act as a form of art therapy and can aid emotional healing and processing, allowing us to express and release difficult emotions.

Their balanced, circular structure can help restore a sense of stability when life feels chaotic and overwhelming.

Carl Jung (founder of analytical psychology) drew mandalas himself and believed in their soothing and therapeutic effect on individuals.

If you or someone you know might benefit from this creative expression, click the links below for some free resources.👇

To create your own mandalas visit Picklebums

👉https://picklebums.com/shape-mandala-drawing/

To colour your own visit https://thewellnesssociety.org/

👉https://thewellnesssociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Mandala-Coloring-Sheets.pdf

04/08/2025

I’m excited to introduce some new mythical creatures to my Sand Play set! ✨🐉🦄

Sand play can allow children and young people to build healthy attachments, process trauma and improve their emotional well-being.

Sand Play is a therapeutic technique where individuals use characters and objects to create their own world in the sand tray. Ideal for children who enjoy sensory, hands-on experiences and small world play!

Available to pre-schoolers aged 4+, children and
teenagers who find it difficult to verbalise their thoughts and feelings.

For more information visit www.sketchtoexpress.co.uk

25/07/2025

https://sketchtoexpress.co.uk/ ⬇️

I am very excited to publish my new website and so thankful to all of the people who have allowed me to support them with their mental health and wellbeing, over the last 3 years.

I look forward to helping more children, young people and adults over the coming year, through collaborations with schools, North East Wellbeing and other charities and organisations. ✨

Therapeutic person-centred support, that allows people to process their emotions and improve their wellbeing in a gentle and creative way.