Therapeutic use of Creative Arts - FREE Taster session!
Come along and discover for yourself how powerful and therapeutic 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.
In this workshop you'll have the opportunity to find out for yourself through a short experiential exercise. You will 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.
We have developed a contemporary approach based on person-centred and pluralistic theory and practice which integrates create arts in a powerful and yet gentle therapeutic approach. Our vibrant training offers courses from Introduction, Certificate, Advanced Certificate and Diploma levels.
APCCA courses will help you develop skills and understanding 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. 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.
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.
Session Leader
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.