Family Mental Fitness: Your Partner in Mental Health
Drawing and Talking - An attachment based therapeutic programme
Drawing and Talking is a therapeutic intervention for children, young people and adults.
It is designed as a short-term, therapeutic intervention that works particularly well with trauma. Trauma surrounding school expectations, pressure of work, change and transition through to illness, loss and bereavement can be addressed during this therapy. This Is not an exhaustive list.
Through a 12-week cycle of 30-minute one-to-one sessions, this non-intrusive tool allows children, young people and adults to process emotional pain resulting from trauma.
The child or adult utilises drawing as a way to help them express their feelings differently from ordinary verbal language.
The Drawing and Talking therapeutic intervention allows individuals to discover and communicate emotions through a non-directed technique. This is what sets Drawing and Talking apart from existing solution-focused and cognitive-based therapies and interventions. There is no 'interpretation' of the drawings created and no judgement or feedback given.
How a Drawing and Talking session works:
Create a safe space: a limited-time approach
Kay will meet you or your child for 30 minutes on the same day, time and place each week, during a 12-week intervention. Kay will ask a number of non-intrusive questions about the drawings created in-session, and over time a symbolic resolution is found to conflicts and trauma begins to heal.
Work one-to-one to create secure attachments
Work with an individual is carried out safely and non-intrusively, with respect for their pace and their state of being. This intervention helps to build healthy attachments and helps to process trauma.
Guide them through the world of dream and fantasy
Once an individual feels safe and the Practitioner has created a secure attachment, their imagination begins to unfold. Based on Jungian principles, they will be guided through the power of healing when working with the unconscious.
Find symbolic resolution
After completion of the Drawing and Talking therapy, individuals are more able to control their behaviour and most importantly have higher self-esteem, allowing them to thrive in the world around them.
