Genevieve Collier,
Art Therapy in Malvern
What is Art Therapy?
Art therapy uses all sorts of materials, photos, artworks, objects and talking together to explore emotions, memories, thoughts, and relationships. The therapist will help you use the materials, your senses, and your imagination to connect to different parts of yourself an d explore what you want to change. It is definitely not just for people who are ‘good at art’!
Art therapy can help in times of feeling depressed and hopeless; stress, anxiety and overwhelm; recovery from trauma; bereavement, loss, and grief; big changes at any time of life; working out who you are and what you want.
About our expert
Genevieve has been a registered art psychotherapist since 2019 and set up Malvern Community Art Therapy in 2023 with colleague Sue Wilkie. They take a person-centred, trauma informed approach to therapy, asking not ‘what is wrong with you’, but ‘what has happened to you?’.
Supporting the approach of A Disorder for Everyone , Sue and Genevieve challenge the medical approach to mental health, believing there are more helpful ways to understand emotional distress than seeing it as medical illness or disorder.
Genevieve’s approach to art therapy has been influenced by
Training with Cornelia Elbrecht’s Sensorimotor Guided Drawing
Trauma expert Carolyn Spring who specialises in survivors of child sexual abuse
A Jungian-based art psychotherapy training at Roehampton University
Our evolving understanding about the needs and wonders of neurodiverse brain types
Working in therapeutic art communities at Studio Upstairs in London
Genevieve Collier
Private art therapy Tuesdays and Fridays.
Sessions times vary.
Payment:
£65-£75 for private art therapy. Subsidy possible for people receiving benefits.
£5 -£15 range for community art groups
Learn more about Genevieve
Click to view the video about Genevieve, her time at Wellsprings House and what she can do for you.
Helpful information
As well as offering private art therapy, Genevieve runs a programme of community art groups and
workshops at the art therapy studio.
Regular Groups include:
- Anxiety Art Club – for people who enjoy arts and crafts and usually feel anxious about groups
- Quiet Creatives – for neurodiverse adults in their 20’s including those with complex trauma
- Sad Sundays – for processing grief and loss
- Happy Mondays – a gentle start to the week with drawing and social connections
- Zine Workshops – for all ages
- And guest artist workshops
The cost of attending most of these groups depends on what you can afford:
- £5 low income
- £10 actual cost
- £15 pay it forward (helping others access the studio)
There are also therapeutic art groups for self-development in 6-week blocks on themes such as:
– Art & Soul – reflection on what’s important in life and getting creatively unstuck
– Second Half of Life – exploring how to face the last decades of life
