Creative Arts Therapies Info

 
 

Soearth Projects provide a creative arts therapy service for children, adolescents and adults. These include modalities in Art Psychotherapy and Music Therapy.  We currently have six independent creative arts therapists working at our service. Therapists are IACAT accredited and have undergone master’s level training.

Our practice is surrounded by natural beauty. The influence of nature establishes a mindful and stress free environment for all. Therapists typically integrate eco-therapy approaches into their work with clients.

We are available to take GP, agency and self referrals. If you would like to find out more about creative arts therapies and the available services on offer please contact via contact button below.

Our Covid guidelines adhere to HSE recommendations. Our individual therapy rooms provide a nurturing, safe and private experience for both therapist and client.

Mental Health: Why Creative Arts Therapies?

When we experience difficulties and find we need support, we are told to work this out through talking. However, sometimes it is too difficult to verbalise or even identify how we feel through words alone. A creative approach found in arts therapies through art, music or drama helps us communicate, externalise and make sense of presenting experiences. Engaging with a creative process in therapy can help build self-awareness, foster self-development, enable solutions and relieve, regulate and combat mental illness or concerns.

In creative arts therapies the client and therapist work together to process and work-through presenting difficulties. This is facilitated in a respectful, person centred and non-coercive manner.

 
 
 

This short video captures the venue of Soearth Creative Arts Therapy.

It introduces the therapists at Soearth and overviews Creative Arts Therapy.

 

This introductory video demonstrates key principles of Art Psychotherapy. The video brings us through the sensory, visual and symbolic aspects found in Art Psychotherapy.

 

This immersive film illustrates a series of creative processes made available in Art Psychotherapy. In this video images are created as separate artworks and run in sequence to audible internal dialogue. This demonstrates connections and communications made when using art mediums and the creative process.

 
 
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Ep 17: Art Therapy Addressing The Elephant with Heidi Morrison

This episode features Heidi Morrison who is an IACAT Council Member and Vice Chair, and an Art Therapist. We discuss what is art therapy, what does it involve and how can it help, and get an insight into Soearth Projects.

 
 

What is Music Therapy?

Music therapy is an evidence-based health profession where music is used as the primary agent for therapeutic change. Music therapists are qualified health professionals who support people across the lifespan to achieve health-related goals. Clients can engage primarily through music or through a combination of creative and verbal approaches. No musical skill is required to participate.

 

Why Music Therapy?

  • An evidence-based therapeutic intervention

  • An accessible therapeutic medium for people of all ages and abilities

  • Facilitates non-verbal communication and provides avenues for emotional expression

  • Supports physiological regulation and sensory integration

  • Promotes positive health outcomes across social, physical, emotional, and cognitive domains

  • A non-judgemental, confidential space to process thoughts and feelings

 
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Creative arts therapies addresses a range of mental health illnesses and concerns including:

  • Anxiety 

  • Depression

  • Trauma

  • PTSD/Complex PTSD

  • Addiction

  • Self-harm

  • Eating Disorders

  • Chronic pain

  • Negative self image/identity 

  • Relationship difficulties

  • Bereavement and Loss.

  • Behavioural disorders/challenges and attachment disorders experienced in children.

  • Inclusive of Conduct disorder/ Oppositional disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

  • Obsessional compulsive Disorder (OCD). 

 Creative arts therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapeutic intervention. This practice draws on research and theory from the fields of psychoanalysis, psychology and neuroscience. 

Soearth therapists adhere to professional guidelines and policies in accordance to the centre and their accredited bodies. This includes providing a safe and confidential space for the clients.

“Often it is necessary to clarify content by giving it a visible form. This can be done by drawing, painting, or modeling. Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”

— Carl Jung

Contact us.

If you would like to make an appointment or would like to find out more about our art psychotherapy service please use the contact button below.