FREE Therapeutic use of Creative Arts Taster Session
Come and discover for yourself how powerful and beneficial the person-centred approach can be when combined with creative arts.
Creating art is therapeutic. It can help with stress, trauma, mental health and wellbeing. Creative arts can help with processing emotional material, tap into material from the subconscious, and it can help develop valuable insights leading to growth, self-awareness and integration.
And when the person centred, non-directive, interpretive approach is bought together with creative arts, the result is a powerful and yet gentle therapeutic approach.
In this online workshop you'll have the opportunity to find out for yourself through a short experiential exercise. You also learn about the approach, how it can help boost your own creativity and find out more about training to work therapeutically with art with APCCA.
APCCA courses will help you develop person-centred art therapy skills which can be used in a variety of settings and roles ;
Counsellors
Psychotherapists
Art Therapists
Coaches
Psychologists
Social Workers
Mental Health practitioners
Community Artists
Support Workers
Please note only those who have completed an art therapy training can use the title art therapist.
This is an online workshops and joining instructions will be sent before the session.
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.
Gerald Webb is a counsellor who has worked with a range of people in different settings and now works in his private practice specialising in supporting people who are caught up in addiction. He is a person centred creative arts practitioner and tutor. Gerald studied with Liesl Silverstone, founder of the person centred art therapy approach, which has developed the way he works therapeutically with people.
Gerald was a valued part of Liesl Silverstone’s tutor group and is a co-founder of APCCA, an APCCA mentor and tutor. Trainees describe Gerald's way of being as truly person centred and a wonderful anchor to the richness of the course.
Marina Anderson works and lives in Ireland. she is an integrative psychotherapist, a person-centred creative art counsellor and artist when there is time. She combines these skill-sets to create a very unique and creative psycho-therapeutic experience. Marina also has experience of working with groups from self-development with horses to addiction recovery aftercare programs.
Marina is a practitioner member of APCCA and part of the APCCA Steering group.