Arterial Art Therapy

The walking art therapy session with Jo was a deeply nourishing and enriching process. Jo is a gentle and wise guide. Walking beside me she offered grounded, creative and yet deceptively simply processes to help me engage with some deep issues. She supported to me to follow my inner knowing in a playful and creative way. I came away with a deeper understanding of some of the themes, issues and opportunities alive in me. Thank you Jo.

Jo has accompanied me on my journey as an emerging artist. At the beginning I did not have the confidence to even get the paints out. I did not think that I could create anything that I would like. After each session, my confidence grew and my creative expression unfolded. Jo walked besides me with a loving presence and gentle encouragement. She created a space of play and enjoyment. She focused on my strengths and abilities. I discovered my playful inner child who loves to paint and is free to express herself creatively. After each session, Jo sent me an image or a poem with something potent from our session together. This made me feel understood and cared for. It provided a beautiful reminder and trail of our work.

Having Art therapy sessions with Jo was very meaningful and powerful for me. I loved how Jo was attentive to everything I said and how she had the gift to hear the subtleties of what I was communicating, and working with that in significant and insightful ways that keep on resonating in me after we have finished our process together. Some of the art and visual images we have created together assist me more than words to remember my practice and be immersed in my practice on a daily basis.
Thank you Jo!
Iris Bar

Working with Jo through art therapy was a truly transformational process. It’s about learning to find the individual insights offered to us through subconscious images. Jo helped me unravel the threads of ideas in my drawings, finding links between the different images and colours and opening up the creative space for moments of understanding. In such a tumultuous time, art therapy became an act of grounding, a way not to escape the anxiety-provoking world but to find tools of creative courage, and self-kindness to help live in it.

I really got a lot out of all of the sessions I had with Jo and feel like the time spent has had an important and positive impact on my art practice and also my personal & professional development. All the techniques she used with me have been extremely useful in one way or another, bringing me new insights and perspectives and in some cases contributing to some really important shifts and behaviour changes.