Creative Psychotherapy for Teens & Adults

Creative Psychotherapy: is suitable for teenagers and adults alike. While traditional talk-based therapies are part of the intervention, the process of psychotherapy is aided and deepened by utilizing projective creative mediums of therapy such as Sandtray therapy, Body Psychotherapy, Art & Drama therapies. These mediums provide access to unconscious material that we are often not consciously aware of, while allowing a safe and gentle dramatic distance from sometimes painful content. This process supports a beginning to explore, illuminate and process our sometimes-hidden conflicts and trauma with the view to a healthier self-evolving.

Concerns common for Solas Psychotherapy

• Attachment/early developmental trauma & interruption, premature birth, infant-toddler stress issues, Adoption & Fostercare
• Anxiety: social, separation anxiety, School & peer avoidance, obsessional behaviour – cleaning, hand washing, OCD and Phobias – Doctors, Dentists, Santa, Halloween, Dogs.
• Depression or Low Mood: Bullying, lack of engagement in Life, Self-Harm, Suicidal Ideation & Behaviour.
• Bereavement: Natural and Sudden/Traumatic Death & Complicated Grief, as well as parental/marital separation and separation from illness/hospitalization.
• Low Self-Esteem & Confidence and Social Issues.
• Trauma: Medical (Body) Trauma, Psychological, Physical and domestic Violence, Rape, Sexual Abuse and Sexualised Behaviour.
• Developmental Issues: ASD – Autistic Spectrum Disorder, ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder, ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, SPD – Sensory Processing Disorder, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia and language delay and elective mutism.