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Welcome, take a moment to pause.
In this space, you don’t need to have all the answers or even the right words. Here, you can simply be.
Life’s challenges often take us to places where words feel too small. That’s where the magic of expressive arts begins. Through color, movement, storytelling, and imagination, we’ll gently explore the parts of you that long to be seen and heard. Together, we’ll create a bridge between what’s inside and the world around you.
You don’t need to be an artist – just open to the process. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, untethered, or seeking a deeper connection to yourself, this is a space to breathe, to feel, and to rediscover your unique rhythm.
Healing doesn’t have to be rushed or forced. It unfolds naturally when given the space to bloom. Let’s walk this path at your pace. You are welcome here, just as you are.
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I change.”
CARL ROGERS
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Integrative Counselling & Psychoterapy
Combines traditional talk therapy with mind-body-feeling expression through art-making. Gentle, projective, creative techniques, starting from an image, music, gesture, clay, writing, puppetry, movement or other creative activities to explore your internal world and parts dialogue with the support of the therapist empathic listening and witnessing.
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Therapeutic Coaching
Combines therapy and coaching approaches to help you expand self-awareness, inner resourcing and freedom of choice — transcending outdated or externally given self-constructs and limiting beliefs. Outcomes include enhanced emotional communication, self-acceptance and resilience which leads to greater clarity, renewed meanings and purpose in life.
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Integrative Counselling
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Creative therapies
Helps uncover and process hidden emotions using creativity as a vehicle and safe container. Words, play, sand, drama, sound, or allow feelings to be expressed and access what words cannot, providing relief. Sessions may include both talking and creative activities, with the choice to engage in creative tools always left to the individual. No artistic skill is needed to benefit from this.
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Expressive Art Group
In the Creative Connection process participants explore a sequence of art experiences expressing their feelings non-verbally from the felt-body experience, that leads them into their inner realms. A sacred space emerges through collective, side-by-side inner experiencing, where each person becomes safer to freely express themselves.
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“Creativity is like Freedom: Once you taste it, you cannot live without it. It is a transformative force enhancing Self-esteem & Self-empowerment.”
Expressive arts therapy uses movement, drawing, painting, storytelling, roleplay, improvisation, sculpting, music/sound, writing in a holding and safe emotional space to enable individuals experiencing and expressing feelings in an embodied way and and access their unconscious, where trauma is often stored.
This is an alternative path for self-exploration and a way to communicate with the the therapist or facilitator beyond words and the constraints of the rational mind, that repeats patterns of thinking that keep us stuck.
When the client creates art in a session, allowing to be witnessed, she is opening a window to her soul to me as a therapist. I am in awe as we process the strong images of self-expression that help us comprehend her inner world and gather more meaning from each visit.
“ntegrative art therapy can be an effective tool for accessing the unconscious and processing trauma for several reasons”
CLIENT M.F
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
Integrative art therapy can be an effective tool for accessing the unconscious and processing trauma for several reasons:
❋ Symbolic expression: Art-making allows individuals to express themselves symbolically, tapping into the language of the unconscious mind. Images,
❋ Non-verbal communication: Trauma can sometimes be stored in the body and unconscious mind, making it challenging for individuals to express verbally.
❋ Creative exploration: Engaging in creative activities stimulates imagination and intuition, enabling individuals to explore their inner worlds in a safe and non-threatening way.
❋ Non-verbal communication: Trauma can sometimes be stored in the body and unconscious mind, making it challenging for individuals to express verbally.
❋ Creative exploration: Engaging in creative activities stimulates imagination and intuition, enabling individuals to explore their inner worlds in a safe and non-threatening way.
Hi there,
I'm
Rita Cotrim
I have an MA in Clinical Psychology (ISPA, Lisbon) and a Diploma in Integrative Art-Psychoterapy from The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, a leading arts-psychotherapy institute in London. I’m a BACP member and an Integrative Counsellor (trainee) at Heart-to-Heart Bristol. I’ve created the Rooted to Being project to provide low-cost therapeutic services, resources, workshops for the community as an expressive arts facilitator and therapeutic coach drawing from my 8 years studies within mental health and my own transformative self-journey. I’m a passionate believer in the connective power of nature, imagination, and integration of shadow and inner child work.
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The compassionate therapeutic listening and witnessing where all parts of you are welcome.
