Art Therapy

Liberation Art Gallery is home to a dedicated team of resident art psychotherapists who provide a unique, demedicalized, and creative approach to mental health care. These art therapists are highly qualified and professionally regulated practitioners, bringing a wealth of experience to their work.

They use a variety of creative methods, including imagination, play, and art, as powerful tools for communication. This approach helps to reduce distress, fosters self-expression, and enhances social and emotional well-being, offering individuals a supportive and nurturing environment to explore their feelings and experiences.

We encourage you to feel free to get in touch with any of our therapists if you have questions or wish to learn more about their services. You can easily reach out by emailing them through the contact button on each of their bios.

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Art Director

Caroline Pendray

(She/Her), BA, MA, HCPC, BAAT

Caroline Pendray is a senior art therapist and Primary Mental Health worker. Caroline is a founding director of Liberation Art Gallery in Brighton, Sussex which is a neurodivergent and disabled-led organisation. With Arts for health at the core of the gallery’s ethos. Caroline holds a BA Hons in Applied and Media Arts and an MA in Art Therapy with 14 years post qualifying experience within the arts for wellbeing and mental health sector. For further information and session rates: www.carolinependray.com

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Head Therapist

Naomi Rule

(She/Her), MA, HCPC, BAAT, IAFP

I know that starting your therapy journey takes courage and therefore I offer a warm, empathetic and non-judgemental space to support you in taking those first steps. My approach is thoroughly trauma-informed as I place the safety and empowerment of all my clients as a priority. I am a queer affirming and anti-oppressive practitioner, with an intersectional and feminist theoretical lense. I work with teenagers and adults, offering short and long-term psychotherapy, aiming to offer an inclusive and safe therapeutic space, so alongside cultivating a meaningful therapeutic relationship with every client, I am mindful of those who may have face additional challenges when accessing more traditional therapies. I specialise in working with complex trauma.

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Resident Therapist

Jemma Timberlake

(She/Her), MA, HCPC

I offer warm, nurturing and inclusive Art Psychotherapy sessions to children, adolescents and adults. With a particular interest in working with relational/intergenerational trauma, neurodivergence, gender dysphoria, bereavement, suicidality, and self-harm. My approach is rooted in psychodynamic practice, focusing on how our early attachments to our caregivers have influence on the way we meet, see and function in the world around us. Providing a non-judgemental, safe and contained space for you to explore difficult experiences and emotions through the use of art materials, play, and conversation. I believe that accessing the unconscious through the act of creating can increase feelings of empowerment, agency and ownership of your own story, when words alone are not enough. Working in a person-centred way means meeting you where you are currently at in your journey, sitting alongside you to discover new perspectives to help you implement meaningful change. Focusing on the whole person; mind, body, and family system whilst considering the impact of your wider social environment. Holding a paced, trauma informed route to healing.

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Resident Therapist

Amy Dolan

(She/Her), MA, HCPC, BAAT

I am a community engaged Artist,Muralist and Art Psychotherapist who centres all her practices around the benefits of tactile and visual materials. As a psychodynamically trained therapist, I work in a trauma informed way, focusing on what occurs in and around the relationships between our external and internal worlds. At points in life people experience challenges and changes when it comes to identity, an experience of loss, physical illness, trauma, relationships or insecure attachments. These experiences and how they continue to affect us can be hard to verbalise. Some of these circumstances may have occurred in our early preverbal life, be painful, or escape our words when we attempt to share them. Sometimes they can become overwhelming and hard to hold alone. At other times we may come to therapy with purely a sense of curiosity about how our journey through life is affecting our relationship with the present. Whatever the reason someone comes to therapy, I work with clients to create and hold a safe, playful and confidential space to explore and acknowledge; always supporting someone with the space to ask their own questions and agency to come to their own answers, both verbally,visually and sensorially.

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