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Welcome to Tina Leslie's Private Practice Website
Increasingly people are recognising the need to explore difficult feelings and life experiences through words and creative self-expression, with a professional therapist in a confidential and non-judgmental environment.
Exploring self through integrative arts psychotherapy can help relieve psychological symptoms, generate change and so bring about a greater sense of well-being. With these goals in mind, Tina Leslie offers both short term individual counselling and longer-term psychotherapy, tailored to suit your specific requirements.
What is Integrative Arts Psychotherapy?
In recognising the limits of everyday language in the communication of powerful and profound feelings, integrative arts psychotherapy offers an in-depth exploration of self through the use of image and metaphor as well as other art forms. Each art form provides a unique language of expression enabling insight, growth and change.
Integrative art psychotherapy is committed to the role of the imagination and creativity in psychological change. It is concerned with the therapeutic application of the arts and the creative imagination for a more fulfilling life.
Integrative arts psychotherapy recognises artistic creativity as a human phenomenon, rather than the property of a few talented people. The inner musicality, the capacity to move, dance, paint and act is acknowledged in ALL people. No previous artistic experience is necessary to work with an arts psychotherapist
Issues that I work with:
Relationship Difficulties; Anxiety; Depression; Bereavement; Post Traumatic Stress; Self-Harm; Low Self-Esteem; Anger; Eating Disorders; Abuse; Addictions; Phobias; Work Related Issues; Stress; Panic Attacks; Psychosomatic Symptoms; Reproduction issues; Difficulties with Communication and Self Expression.
Qualifications and Experience
Tina is an integrative arts psychotherapist and supervisor, grounded in the understanding of earliest attachment relationships and how these are connected to people's present difficulties. She believes passionately in the importance of the relationship between the therapist and the client and finding the most appropriate way of working with them as individuals.
Tina obtained her qualification as an art therapist , she then went on to complete the Masters in Integrative arts psychotherapy training from IATE and has also completed and advanced training in supervision
She has worked for many years as an arts psychotherapist in adult mental health in psychiatric hospitals as well as in private practice. She is also a professional artist
Tina is UKCP, HPC and BAAT registered.
Contact
For an initial consultation to discuss either individual therapy or supervision then please call me on 0845 543 3826 (local rate) otherwise you can email me using the form on the contact page.