Individual and group art therapy sessions offer a way to explore the Self through your own art making, using guided meditations, paints, clay, poetry, story and movement, that invite you to work somatically and spiritually to challenge difficult thoughts, behaviours and feelings. No artistic experience is needed for this process led approach.
Individual sessions are available with:
Vera, a transpersonal arts counsellor with punk rock credentials. She works holistically and person-centred, weaving together personal meaning-making, Jungian symbolism and archetypal themes, with trauma informed awareness and lived-experience. More info
Ali, a multidisciplinary Artist and Integrative Arts Psychotherapist, working from a trauma informed perspective. More info
Group sessions:
Ali is also offering The Torriano art therapy group, together with art therapist Hannah Theodorou. This will be a weekly happening where we bear witness to the creativity of ourselves and each other, and become a part of the art therapy group matrix!
The group will take place every Monday from 12pm until 1.30pm, aiming to start from May 2026.
Ali and Hannah have experience running groups with refugees and asylum seekers, and the LGBTQi community.
Iranian diaspora
Ali will be running a therapy group for Iranians in the diaspora (including asylum seekers and those seeking refuge in the UK). A space to share feelings and come together for support. This is a call to those who are looking not only discuss the repercussions facing our community but it is also an invitation to a deeper exploration of what it means to be dislocated from Iran, whether it be in recent years or like myself, the majority of your life. As well as listening to one another and sharing, we will be using the arts to explore these themes. The sessions will be held in English (but not strictly!) so non Farsi speakers are very welcome. This is a group that welcomes all Iranians, however much Iranian you feel and whatever you political views or religious beliefs. It is our commonalities and our differences that makes for a rich group. This will be a closed psychotherapeutic group of a maximum of 8 participants, with half the participants being those seeking asylum or with refugee status.
