15 years of creative healing (10 minute film)
It’s a great pleasure to share Art Therapy Yorkshires 15 years of creative healing celebration video.
If you’ve ever wondered what art therapy is and how Art Therapy Yorkshire could help in your own journey towards healing, please do take a look at our video. Hearing from our dedicated team of art psychotherapists and trustees, a witnessed authors account and personal testimonies.
Whether wanting to access art therapy for your own journey towards healing, referring someone or wanting to be a part of giving back to the community through Art Therapy Yorkshire by considering becoming a member. Please do reach out to our team via admin@arttherapyyorkshire.org.uk. Art Therapy Yorkshire is here and we are listening.
Giving a special thanks to all those that participated in its creation.
That’s TV North Yorkshire
A big thank you to That’s TV North Yorkshire for visiting our art therapy studio at Woodend! Our Founder and Manager, Sue Holmes, shared a hands-on look at how art therapy works in practice.
With thanks to those who fund our work
We are relieved to be able to announce receipt of a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund, which alongside giving our new Financial year a great boost means we are able to offer 1-1 therapy to adults and young people who may be referred. We also wish to recognise the support of the Two Ridings/North Yorkshire coast Fund in funding our work with young people. Sue, Georgia and Jodie our therapists are now working from one room here at Woodend, although there is shared space available outside for consultation – so please do get in touch if you wish to discuss how we may help you.
We are intervention partners on the Rise2Thrive/trailblazer programme. This programme is in part thanks to the Combined Mayoral Authority of North Yorkshire support, and will continue to be a great benefit to our residents – https://betterconnect.org.uk/our-projects/rise2thrive/
We wish to thank the Allen Lane Foundation for their support of our weekly Womens Eco group here at Woodend – using the fabulous locality. Whilst primarily aimed at women who have engaged with us through Art Psychotherapy we welcome new referrals or inquiries about this or indeed our work generally.
Our work with the Rainbow Centre, Scarborough Social Action Centre continues – now on a Wednesday at 11:30 AM.
If you feel you would benefit from Art Therapy please do get in touch.
REMEMBER – anyone can contribute to our charity by clicking through our donations button on this footer. Please do remember to tick that vital gift aid box to increase the value of your donation; we as a small local charity are not in receipt of statutory or long term funding so every bit helps.
Who we are and what we do:
ArttherapyYorkshire is a Scarborough based registered charity, reg no.1169577, working locally and in the wider region, if possible. We currently have six trustees, and welcome inquiries around widening our trustee base and membership.
We aim to provide Art Psychotherapy to both young people and adults from our studio base in Scarborough.
We work together with other service providers, schools, voluntary and charitable organisations to improve standards of mental health in our area. We address social exclusion by making applications for funding to enable us to work with vulnerable members of society who otherwise could not afford a therapy intervention.
We at ArttherapyYorkshire are very keen to widen our membership, so if you hold the same values, believe in what we do, and wish to further our work, please contact us at contact@arttherapyyorkshire.org.uk. We will soon be offering an online application form – watch this space !
What is Art Psychotherapy?
Art Psychotherapy is a recognised, regulated, psychological therapy which uses all types of art materials to help express thoughts and feelings. Clients do not need to have any previous art experience or talent as an artist; the therapy is about communicating thoughts and emotions through different images and objects, and not about creating a work of art to hang on the wall.
Funding
COSTS Please note we are constantly seeking funding in order to be able to continue to offer individuals and groups therapy free of charge. Wherever possible this is our aim. Please do feel able to ask what is available – funding is ever changing but if we can, we are committed to be able to offer free or low cost interventions particularly to those who self refer. Donations are welcome at any time, but is entirely voluntary and will help us reduce the overall cost to funders.
If however you wished to engage a therapist privately, or for a longer period, please see our sliding scale.
Organisations/partnerships
Please feel free to contact us for costs and quotations for individual or specific group work which could be in our studio, in a specific location, or in your school setting. We are able to tailor special one-off group art workshops for adults and young people with specific challenges, please contact us for further information. Work in schools and in specific settings will be at a rate agreed with the commissioning body, but at a competitive rate. We follow the sessional fee guidelines set out by our professional association BAAT. To ensure best practice we engage two therapists per group.
The outstanding setting of Woodend Creative, taken from across Valley Road. The main entrance is from the Crescent at the other side of this view! We benefit from this glorious setting and may utilise the gardens in our outdoors therapy work. The sea is just a stones throw from here!
