An APCCA Registered Practitioner is a professional who integrates a person-centred creative arts approach in counselling, psychotherapy, or in other mental health and helping professions. We have two categories of membership;
An APCCA Registered Person Centred Creative Arts Therapist (Reg.PCCAT) members have undergone professional therapy training and have also undertaken a further person-centred creative arts practitioner training. Within this category members may be registered practitioners or accredited practitioners.
An APCCA Registered Person Centred Creative Arts Facilitators (Reg.PCCAF) is a professional who integrates and facilitates person-centred creative arts for a broad range of purposes in various roles and settings such as coaching, education, support, wellbeing, health fields, organisational development and community projects. Within this category members may be registered practitioners or accredited practitioners.
Being an APCCA registered practitioner indicates a thorough training, education, supervised experience and a commitment to ethical practice to help ensure that our clients and individuals have a safe, beneficial and high quality therapeutic experience.
APCCA Ethical Principles and Framework for Practice
You can download a copy HERE
All APCCA members are expected to promote ethical practice, including these principles, when working with clients.
Louise Abba
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I work in the community with people with mental health difficulties.
Field of practice
Psychotherapist • Face to face • Other - please state below
Other (if ticked above)
Art Therapist apprentice
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Lincolnshire
Specialism
Children & young people • Trauma • Anxiety & Depression • Personal development
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Midlands - England
Marina Anderson
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I am an integrative psychotherapist (IACP), and artist. I naturally was drawn to working creatively with my clients when as fate would have it I was introduced to Ani de la Prida and the APCCA association workshops and certification. This stepping stone into the professional world of working with creative arts as a person-centred practitioner makes sense to me. My clients and I connect with the image work and very unique awareness moments happen. Opportunities arise for greater understanding. When working with empathy and acceptance we become more curious and self-led. And we can all benefit from these creative experiences. I work with clients who experience anxiety, depression, loss, pain, fear, stress, illness, family and relationship difficulties, co-dependency and crises.
Field of practice
Counsellor • Psychotherapist • Online or telephone • Face to face • Other - please state below • Creative Arts Facilitator
Other (if ticked above)
Co Tutor APCCA level 1 Introduction to Person Centred Creative Arts
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Ireland
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Ireland
Heidi Bentley
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I am a trainee counsellor and hold the Level 2 Certificate in the Therapeutic Use of Person-Centred Creative Arts. I work with adults on a one to one basis offering online art facilitation sessions. I am also a graduate in Design: Jewellery & Silversmithing (2001).
Field of practice
Online or telephone • Creative Arts Facilitator
Region - where you are based?
Southeast England • Other
John Bradley
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Hello, I am a person centred counsellor / psychotherapist. I have offered in person counselling to young people since 1998 in both secondary school (11 to 16 year olds) and in private practice settings. I am also a supervisor and enjoy supervising counsellors / psychotherapists who work with children and young people. I enjoy using Russian dolls, play doh and metaphor in my client work. I am always amazed in how creative arts help to regulate and express powerful thoughts and emotions. As part of my personal development during training, this creative way of working has allowed me to access buried painful emotions and safely express them. In 2022 I completed a certificate in person centred expressive arts therapy (Natalie Rogers model). In 2024, I completed the APCCA Certificate course. I am a practitioner member of APCCA and a member of the Person Centred Association. I am also a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor (Children & Young People) and BACP Senior Accredited Supervisor.
Field of practice
Counsellor • Psychotherapist • Online or telephone • Face to face • Supervisor
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Hull. East Riding of Yorkshire
Specialism
Children & young people • Relationships • Personal development
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Northeast England
Louise Brock
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My name is Louise and have worked as a qualified Person Centred Counsellor since 2008. I work with adults and young people both individually and within groups. I have worked within primary & secondary Mental Health services, educational pastoral services with young people, as well as a wide range of charitable organisations including Mind, Women's Aid and family Carers Centre.
I offer a small private practice alongside online evening and weekend sessions face to face in Maldon Essex.
I provide an alternative and gentle approach in connecting with difficult emotions through the use of creative materials. This way of exploring feelings can be very insightful, healing and you do not need any artistic skill's to create. I have a special interest in peri-natal mental health, young people's mental health and using art therapeutically.
I offer a safe, empathic and non judgemental space upholding the belief that we all hold the opportunity to grow and fulfil our potential in life. Working in a non directive way can offer client's to become more open with their true authentic self, trusting their own inner radar and seek changes in their lives that feel right for them.
Field of practice
Counsellor • Psychotherapist • Online or telephone • Face to face
Other (if ticked above)
I work with adults and young people from 11 plus
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Heybridge and Maldon in Essex
Specialism
Children & young people • Bereavement • Trauma
Region - where you are based?
Southeast England
Sally Butler
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Faversham
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Southeast England
Daniela Cavallaro
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My name is Daniela, and I'm a Gestalt and Creative Arts Counsellor working with individuals, couples, and groups through a relational, embodied and creative Gestalt and Person-Centred approach.
I have an academic background in Clinical Psychology, and since my Diploma in Psychosocial Gestalt (2015), obtained in Italy, I have been exploring creative arts in therapy. When I found APCCA and met Ani De La Prida, I rediscovered myself as a Counsellor and mental health practitioner in the UK.
I hold the Level 3 Advanced Certificate in the Therapeutic Use of Person-Centred Creative Arts.
Field of practice
Counsellor • Online or telephone • Face to face • Creative Arts Facilitator
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Didcot, Oxfordshire
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Southeast England
Samouil Chasme
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About You - please give a brief overview of your practice
My name is Samouil and I am a psychopedagogue, music pedagogue, career counselor, drum teacher, and drum circle facilitator. My professional practice focuses on designing and facilitating individual and group experiences that promote personal development through the arts with particular emphasis on music, rhythm, and embodied expression. I am drawn to person-centered creative arts through a deep sense of calling to support individuals in engaging with creative processes in a liberating, non-academic, non-result-driven, and non-aesthetic way, allowing creativity to function as a lived, expressive process that supports emotional well-being, self-awareness, and a more creative way of living.
Field of practice
Creative Arts Facilitator
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Greece
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Other
Alisa Cherkasova
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I'm a student of Ukrainian psychotherapeutic university in Lviv in Person oriented approach. Moderator of fb group for parents who care about their kids
Field of practice
Counsellor • Online or telephone
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Lviv
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Other
Phyl Cooney
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I am an integrative counsellor and creative arts counsellor. I work with children young people and adults. I have been qualified for 21 years and have a wide range of experience, working with abuse and trauma and the impact of this on childhood and throughout the life cycle. I currently have a private practice and work closely with fostering / adoption agencies and bereavement services across Scotland. I also work with families and individuals who have had an experience of suicide. I use a range of interventions including EMDR, Filial Therapy and creative mediums to help clients explore, process and gain an understanding of the experiences in their lives. I am also a Clinical Supervisor and provide Supervision for trainee and experienced counsellors.
Field of practice
Counsellor • Face to face • Supervisor
Location - if you wish to give more precise details than region
Ayrshire
Specialism
Children & young people • Bereavement • Trauma • Anxiety & Depression
Website - where can clients find out more about you?
Counselling Directory
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Southwest Scotland
Kathleen Copeland
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Glasgow
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Southwest Scotland
Ute Dorner-Morris
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I love to offer my clients a tailored approach in integrating art - creativity - body- movement and mind working with children from age 11 onwards in schools and in private practice. I am also working as a supervisor and trainer incorporating anything I know to help professionals to develop their practices and potential.I work with individuals, couples or groups. Let’s meet online for a free initial appointment to see if we like to work together.
Field of practice
Counsellor • Online or telephone • Face to face • Creative Arts Facilitator • Supervisor
Location - if you wish to give more precise details than region
Face 2 Face Oswestry & Chester
Specialism
Children & young people • Bereavement • Relationships • Trauma • Anxiety & Depression • Personal development • Anger management • Couples
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Counselling Directory Ute Dorner
Ildiko Dulo
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Website
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I am a mental health specialist, MA. I offer individualised one-to-one and small group craft, art and therapeutic story (CATS) sessions in person and online for adults and children who want to better understand and manage their own and others’ emotions, and to build their self-esteem, resilience and perseverance, in order to better cope in life.
Field of practice
Online or telephone • Face to face • Other - please state below • Creative Arts Facilitator
Other (if ticked above)
Mental health specialist
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Cambridgeshire
Specialism
Bereavement • Relationships • Trauma • Anxiety & Depression • Personal development
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Southeast England
Madeleine Duncan-Booth
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Website
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I am an APCCA accredited person-centred therapeutic arts counsellor and supervisor. I offer a confidential, warm and welcoming space, where you can talk freely about your issues without judgement. Through building a trusting and collaborative relationship we can work together with the issues you bring and give you the opportunity to pause, breathe, reflect, and be heard. An opportunity which can bring about greater understanding and self-awareness, fresh perspective, and a stronger sense of self. I find that often we cannot find the words to really express the spectrum of emotions we are feeling. Therefore, I offer a creative way of working. Working creatively may mean using stones, shells, drawings, collage or objects to bring a different focus to our work which may enable us to gain alternative valuable insights that support your healing.
Field of practice
Counsellor • Online or telephone • Face to face • Creative Arts Facilitator • Supervisor
Other (if ticked above)
CPCAB Diploma in Integrative Counselling
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RG26 5GJ
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Southeast England
Charmaine Dunmow
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Field of practice
Counsellor • Coach • Online or telephone • Face to face
Location - if you wish to give more precise details than region
Essex
Specialism
Relationships • Trauma • Personal development
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Region - where you are based?
Southeast England
Anastasia Edin
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I am a counsellor and art therapist providing a warm, non-judgmental environment for individuals to explore their inner worlds and begin their healing journey.
While I specialize in supporting survivors of narcissistic abuse and toxic dynamics - whether in families, partnerships, or the workplace - I work with clients across a variety of areas to process what words alone often cannot reach.
By combining counselling with creative arts, I help individuals navigate challenges ranging from relational dynamics and boundaries to self-esteem, identity, and overall emotional well-being.
Field of practice
Counsellor • Online or telephone • Creative Arts Facilitator • Supervisor
Location - if you wish to give more precise details than region
I work online. I offer sessions in English, Ukrainian, German and Russian languages
Deborah Flynn-Harland
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I specialise in working therapeutically with adults, helping clients address a broad range of issues, from grief and low self-worth to significant life transitions. By utilising creative arts, I facilitate the exploration of hidden wounds and complex emotions, offering a safe space for expression and healing.
Field of practice
Counsellor • Online or telephone • Face to face • Creative Arts Facilitator
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I practice face-to-face in Worthing, West Sussex or online.
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Southeast England
Leigh Gardner
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I am a person-centred pluralistic counsellor with over 25 years experience of working as a therapist. Many of those years were in secondary schools which is where I developed my creative practice skills in order to find different and more inclusive ways of communicating. My counselling qualifications include an Advanced Diploma, a PG Cert in Supervision, Certificate in Person Centred Expressive Arts, Arts for the Blues training and many others. I have worked as a lecturer in HE in counselling and psychotherapy at undergrad and postgrad levels and specialise in expressive therapies and working with children and young people.
Field of practice
Counsellor • Online or telephone • Face to face • Creative Arts Facilitator • Supervisor
Location - if you wish to give more precise details than region
Manchester
Specialism
Children & young people • Addictions • Bereavement • Relationships • Trauma • Anxiety & Depression • Personal development • Anger management
Annie Garrigan
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I am a Pluralistic Counsellor and Person-centred Creative Arts Practitioner. I currently work as a student counsellor in the further and higher education sector and run a small private practice. I see my clients holistically and work collaboratively with them to find meaning and support them through their exploration and healing. Through APCCA, I connected with creativity again which has been truly transformative and empowering. I now bring the practice of working therapeutically with creative arts to support my therapy clients. I run drawing for wellbeing classes for my students and facilitate creative art groups at my Paper Boat Workshop practice. I assist in EDI initiatives and a board member of a charity supporting the East and South East Asian diaspora. Specialism: neurodiversity, trauma, personal development, cultural issues, oppression, and loss.
Field of practice
Counsellor • Psychotherapist • Online or telephone • Face to face • Other - please state below • Creative Arts Facilitator
Other (if ticked above)
SMS/Email counselling. MSc. Degree Counselling. MBACP.
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Perthshire
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Northeast Scotland
Jessica Grasham
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MBACP (Accredited) Person-Centred Counsellor - I work online and face to face from my yurt. Based near a tiny coastal village called Collieston in Aberdeenshire.
Location - if you wish to give more precise details than region
Aberdeenshire
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Northeast Scotland
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