Creating art is therapeutic. It can help with stress, trauma, mental health and wellbeing. It can also help with processing emotional material,  and develop valuable insights leading to growth, self-awareness and integration.

But  when art is combined with professional skills to work with creative and psychological processes our person centred, pluralistic, approach becomes a far deeper, profoundly transformative therapeutic approach, 

In this online workshop you'll have the opportunity to discover the approach for yourself through a short experiential exercise. You'll learn about the approach, about our training courses, and how it can be integrated into a variety of roles and settings , for example;

Counsellors

Psychotherapists

Art Therapists

Coaches

Psychologists

Mental Health practitioners

Community Artists

Support Workers

Please note only those who have completed an art therapy training can use the title art therapist. Therapists who have completed our APCCA training can use the title  Creative Arts Therapists or Creative Arts Counsellors. 

This is an experiential session so please have some basic art materials to hand. It is an online session and joining details will be emailed beforehand. 

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This is an experiential workshop and participants are encouraged to have art materials such as paper, pens, pencils, or pastels available, or a digital art app.

The session is open to anyone, but will be of particular interest to student and qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, art therapists, coaches and community art practitioners who want to work therapeutically with art.

Ani de la Prida is a creative arts counsellor, psychotherapist, supervisor, senior lecturer, author and founder of the Association for Person Centred Creative Arts (APCCA ). Ani has taught on counselling, psychotherapy and person-centred art therapy courses for fifteen years. She currently has a small private practice and her research interest is in creative arts and the use of digital media in therapy. 

Recent publications include;  Person-Centred Creative Arts Therapy in Tribes of the Person-Centred Nations (2025) and The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy & Counselling. (2023), The Pluralistic Therapy Primer (2022 ) and What Works in Counselling and Psychotherapy Relationships (2022). She recently explored the topic of digital disinhibition in therapy on the BBC Radio 4 podcast The Digital Human which you can listen to here.