Sarah Wilson – Creative Arts Therapy

Kia ora, I am a professionally registered Creative Arts Therapist passionate about engaging the arts in therapy as a deeper way to access and express feelings and emotions.

I have experience supporting people to manage challenges with anxiety and depression, complex-trauma, abuse, grief and loss, relationship and identity issues, infertility issues and stress. If you are struggling with any of these issues life can often feel overwhelming, you may be experiencing burnout, your emotions may feel like they are in control and you are being swept along for the ride. You may be finding decisions harder to make and not know how to move through your current situation. There may be difficult events that have happened that feel too hard to put into words and experiences that are difficult to explain.

Words alone are often inadequate or even impossible to speak in the wake of traumatic experiences, the arts can step in and fill this void in profound and transformative ways.

 Art processes can help us see challenges from new perspectives and to feel differently about them. Greater self-compassion can be gained and deeper understanding can be experienced and felt, leading to a sense of less suffering and empowerment.

To be truly seen and heard without judgement, for emotions to be welcomed, felt and experienced alongside you, to experience compassion and understanding in a sacredly held space – it is here that true transformation begins to happen.

Using a strengths-based, person-centred, collaborative approach my intention is to foster and increase a sense of agency, empowerment and wellbeing as we work together on the various challenges faced in life.

Utilising a person-centred approach means that every client is understood as a unique being, therapy therefore unfolds as a collaborative process experienced differently by each and every individual.

I have extensive experience working with neurodiversity and those with intellectual disabilities. I work with people in the best way to support their needs using neurodiversity-affirming practice. I recognise that your lived experience means that you are the expert on your life I approach therapy with an open mind and intension to gain insights together so we can find the way forward that works for you.

I offer therapy for people who are experiencing infertility, an area which in I have personal lived experience and can offer sincere compassion for the complex nature of the grief that accompanies this.

No art experience is necessary, I will guide and travel alongside you on this journey.