1. Initial Written Assessment & Planning
Before your first session, you complete a brief written intake.
This allows us to understand your experiences, needs, and goals.
I provide psychoeducation about the process, helping you know what to expect and how this work can support trauma and nervous system regulation.
2. Tailored Art Materials Kit
Once your intake is complete, you receive a kit of art materials chosen to support exploration and expression.
Materials are curated for texture, colour, and sensory engagement, suited to your creative style and needs.
Everything is ready for immediate use in your online sessions, no additional shopping or preparation required.
3. Weekly 60-Minute Online Sessions
Each session is held via a secure video platform.
We meet weekly, maintaining consistency, safety, and continuity.
Sessions are open-ended: some may be quiet, reflective, or deeply symbolic; others playful, surreal, or even humorous.
Art-making leads the session. Words are welcome but not required. Images and materials often become the primary language.
4. Exploration & Processing
Art serves as a way to access feelings, memories, and sensations that may be hard to put into words.
The process is trauma-informed: pacing, safety, and regulation are prioritised at every step.
The work supports integration, self-expression, and emotional insight, without pressure to “perform” or create something polished.
5. Reflection & Integration
After each session, there is space to reflect on the work if you wish.
We explore patterns, symbols, or emerging insights gently, respecting your pace and nervous system.
Reflections can be verbal, written, or simply noticed internally.
6. Ongoing Support & Continuity
Sessions are designed to build over time.
The weekly rhythm helps establish trust, safety, and a sense of containment.
This continuity supports transformation, allowing trauma and neurodivergent experiences to be processed in a sustained, creative way.
7. Open-Ended Journey
There is no fixed endpoint. The process grows as you do.
Art is your companion and guide, carrying insight, emotion, and imagination safely.
The work is both therapeutic and deeply personal, uniquely shaped by your neurodivergent perspective.
Art Therapy Deep Dive
Art as language, therapy as presence: for neurodivergent women seeking to meet their own experience deeply and gently
This is a therapeutic space designed for neurodivergent women, where creative expression becomes the primary language of trauma work. Each 60-minute session is held within a strong, reliable therapeutic frame, offering consistency and safety, while allowing what unfolds inside that frame to be led by image, mark, material, symbol, and metaphor. Words are welcome, but they are not required to come first, and they are never forced.
Many neurodivergent women carry trauma that lives beyond language, shaped by chronic misunderstanding, masking, relational rupture, sensory overwhelm, or years of having to adapt to systems that were never built with them in mind. In this work, art-making offers a way to approach these experiences indirectly, without having to narrate or justify them. Images can hold complexity, contradiction, and intensity in ways conversation alone often cannot.
Sessions may feel quiet and contained, or playful, strange, humorous, or dreamlike. We might stay with one image over time, letting it change as your relationship to it shifts, or allow something new to emerge week by week. Meaning is not rushed or extracted; it is allowed to surface gradually, at a pace that respects both your nervous system and your neurotype.
This approach draws closely on Jungian art psychotherapy, where images are understood as living psychological material rather than illustrations of symptoms. Creative work becomes a way of meeting trauma without re-enactment or overwhelm, allowing symbolic distance while still supporting depth and integration.
You do not need to be “good at art”, nor to arrive with insight, clarity, or the right words. There is no expectation to produce anything finished or aesthetically pleasing. The focus is on process, presence, and relational safety — with the materials, with the images that emerge, and within the therapeutic relationship itself.
I usually work with clients on a weekly basis, as continuity and predictability are especially important in trauma-informed work with neurodivergent women. Returning regularly to the same therapeutic space supports trust, regulation, and a sense of reliability, allowing the work to deepen over time. This is an open-ended therapeutic process, where transformation grows through steady engagement rather than pressure or performance.