Creative Therapy
Our therapy services are available to anyone wanting to engage with creative therapy. We particularly specialise in working with children, young people and adults from complex and vulnerable backgrounds offering a creative way to explore mental health needs in a safe space. We have our own in house therapist, who works across all of our service areas supporting the wellbeing of students as well as delivering one-to-one therapy sessions. In addition to this we work with a carefully selected group of associate therapists, trained in a wide range of creative, play, art therapy and psychotherapy techniques. All of our therapists are fully trained, experienced and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Our approaches support the client to resource themselves with the stability and grounding that they need, enabling them to move to deeper exploration of their mental health, wellbeing and life. Believing that therapy is a learning journey, our therapists work hard to support the client to have everything they need for that journey before being supported to continue on their way.
By using creative approaches we believe that they offer a way for the client to distance themselves from their immediate world, accepting and enabling the whole person into the therapy space, using their current skills and interests, whilst working through the body as well as the mind and allowing the individual autonomy within the space. This often leads to our therapy sessions to being fun, creative and adventurous leading to a deeper exploration that is suitable for all ages and abilities.
We specialise in working with anxiety, depressions, and trauma and can support those with Eating Disorders, OCD, ADHD and Autism. Our more recent trauma work has included supporting individuals through Covid-19 related traumas.
As a company we have been addressing oppression and disadvantage for over 14 years and believe in offering safe spaces to everyone throughout all of our work. This is just as important to us with our therapy work and is done with full communication with parents, carers and the individual receiving the therapy.
We accept referrals from anywhere for our therapy services, including self-referrals. If you would like to have a conversation with us about our therapy you can do so by emailing Natasha at natasha@amindapart.org.uk or calling 0114 2321172
Our Therapists
Natasha Hargrove
Natasha (she/her pronouns) is Head of Services at A Mind Apart where she has worked for 16 years as a facilitator, a manager and now a therapist. Natasha believes the performing arts are a tool for change and with A Mind Apart has developed such projects such as:
Creative Wellbeing Program: An integrated arts and education project that supports young people to access Education.
Understanding your Wellbeing: An arts and Creative Therapy program that supports people who are unemployed or economically inactive to access mental health support and experience the therapeutic benefit of the arts.
Natasha is also a HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) registered Dramatherapist and an Executive Director of the British Association of Dramatherapists. Natasha offers one to one and group Dramatherapy and specialises in empowerment, neurodiversity, anger release and trauma. She is neurodiverse and passionate about everyone having access to the arts.
Georgia Wright
Georgia (she/her pronouns) is an Art Psychotherapist, with three years clinical experience working in hospital settings and in the community. Art Therapy is a non-judgemental, experimental space where art making can be used to play, explore and understand our thoughts, feelings and behaviours in a non-directive way.
At A Mind Apart, Georgia offers individual and group work for a diverse range of clients. She is BAAT and HCPC Registered and specialises in the following areas: Neurodiversity, complex trauma, forensic care. Georgia has additional training in KUF (Understanding personality difficulties) and Interpersonal Art Psychotherapy.
Edward Crawley
Edward (he/him pronouns) has recently joined our team as a graduate of Roehampton University’s Masters programme in Dramatherapy. A clinical placement with A Mind Apart formed part of his studies, offering one-to-one therapy to two teenage women. This work became the subject of his dissertation, exploring the mutual development of the adolescent and the trainee therapist. Coming from a background in addiction recovery, menswork and performance art, Edward sees our culture struggle to create meaningful rites of passage, especially for young people, and therefore considers the use of creative processes as essential for personal transformation, healing and growth. To this end he is also a Trained Leader in the menswork network A Band of Brothers, providing initiatory experiences and mentoring to young men. His Dramatherapy practice is fuelled by a trust in playfulness, and a deep faith that authentic communication between human beings is inherently healing, and can be discovered in as many ways as there are human beings.
Edward’s current caseload includes some of our younger, primary aged clients, with whom he is developing Dramatherapy that opens space for free, unhindered expression for looked-after children, allowing them to unwind what might have become stuck elsewhere in their lived experience.
Charlotte [therapist] is brilliant. So understanding.
He charges around full of anticipation. He gets to express his creativity.
This has helped with my depression, and gets me out of trouble. I have learnt to speak to my parents in an adult conversation.
