Counselling and Creative Therapy
How Creative Therapy helps:
- Can help with communication problems
- Can improve self esteem
- Can increase social integration
- Help externalize repressed emotions
- Help express beliefs and thoughts
- Help foster imagination
- Encourage confidence and concentration
What kind of relationship does the Counsellor share with young people?
- Non directive
- Non interpretive
- Non Judgemental
- Unconditional Positive Regard
- Congruent relationship
- Therapist works along side client
The Counsellor uses a Tool kit which enables young people to express their feelings using a variety of materials such as:
- Sand
- Art
- Drawing
- Clay and play doh
- Small world figures
- Creative visualisations
- Therapeutic stories
- Games such as Jenga, Cards and Board games
How long does Creative Therapy take and how is a client's progress measured?
- Referrals from students, parents, head of years
- Initial assessment made using SDQs
- Sessions are reviewed every six weeks
- Clear contract made with young person around confidentiality, child protection and boundaries
- Sessions are 30 minutes to an hour long
- Number of sessions depend on initial assessment and on going assessments
