Our Creative Counsellors Membership

Tanja is an Integrative Counsellor, NLP Practictioner, Hypnotherapist, author of the "Therapeutic Doodling for Kids" series and Therapeutic Coach. She is a registered member of the BACP and NCPS and has a private practice based online. She has previously worked as a counsellor within the NHS & Rape Crisis. In 2018, Tanja was invited to take part in the Facebook Community Leadership Program along with 114 other global leaders. She is passionate about advocating for a more creative approach to counselling to suit the needs of the client as well as ending counsellor isolation and burn out through her community efforts. Tanja also runs another project called Confident Hearts where she trains others in Compassion, Creative Wellbeing & Mindfulness Coaching through her online courses and offline workshops. Tanja runs regular creative counselling and coaching workshops for members.

Gaynor is an Integrative Counsellor, Supervisor & Clinical Hypnotherapist. She is a registered member of the BACP and has a private practice in Southport. She offers one to one counselling and group support. She has previously worked as a counsellor and assessment officer at a Rape Crisis Centre in Liverpool. She is the Events and Retreats Lead for the Creative Counsellors and provides online training and support within that community. Gaynor's creative, compassion based approach is at the heart of all her work. Gaynor runs a monthly Creative Peer Support Circle as well as other creative counselling workshops.

Evie is an Integrative Counsellor, Happy for no reason Trainer, Breath Practise Practitioner & Therapeutic Coach. She is a registered member of the BACP and has a private practice in the heart of the community in Chester. She has also worked with mental health charities and Rape Crisis. As the Membership, Community Engagement & Ambassador Lead, she is passionate about creating opportunities to inspire and connect counsellors globally. You will meet her in many of your sessions as the hostess with the hostess.

Honorata is a qualified Therapeutic Expressive Arts Practitioner and Integrative Counsellor in training, and she facilitates the Creative Counsellors "Awakening Your Creativity" workshops for members as well as contributing to regular blog articles. She also delivers sessions to Public Health, Mind, community arts organisations and mental health services. She has a passion for the healing power of arts and creativity is her driving force behind therapeutic work. She loves working in her visual journals and create sessions that can prove every person has a creative spark that can be awakened. Recently she also started mentoring and training therapeutic professionals wanting to use creativity and visual arts in their work but needing to build their own confidence. This resulted in a ripple effect and seeing how transformational creativity can be. She offers a monthly therapeutic arts workshop for Creative Counsellors and can't wait to see you there.

Tracy's experience comes from working at NRICC (rape crisis) for 7 years, CRI (drug and alcohol misuse) 3 years, MIND-BLMK 3 years, 2 years working in a suicide and bereavement charity and many years in Private Practice. She has also worked with Children and families for 8 years with Milton Keynes Council and has worked with families with complex difficulties. She is a Therapeutic Counsellor and she works mainly in an Integrative and Creative way, never forgetting her Person’ Centred core values, always putting the needs of the client first. This means she has many counselling "tools" in her toolbox and is passionate about sharing the gifts of creative writing with you.

Masha Bennett is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, supervisor and therapy trainer, based at The Sand & Sound Centre in Glossop. Masha’s work is steeped in symbol and metaphor, she specialises in Integrative Sandplay Therapy and Gong Healing, and also works with nature, drumming, therapeutic art, clay, and the Enneagram. She has taught Emotional Freedom Techniques in several countries around the world, and also teaches on the topics of Trauma, Metaphors of Movement, Sound Healing, and offers a variety of short workshops for Creative Counsellors. Aside from playing with symbols and metaphor in her full-time therapy and training practice, Masha paints pictures, writes, and has many cups of tea in her wild woodland garden. Previously she has worked in the NHS, residential children’s homes, prisons, probation and addiction treatment services, as well as in a BBC garden in Scotland, a Soviet genetics lab, and Moscow Zoo. Masha has shared many wonderful workshops with our members including metaphors of movement, sand, sound and symbols.

Christina has been working as a personal coach, team consultant and executive development coach for over 35 years. She trained as a humanistic psychologist and counsellor in the early 1980′s and worked with youngsters who were not school attenders. There she found that asking them to draw and doodle about what was going on for them opened up a conversation that had not been possible before. Her passion for creativity and the difference it can make to the coaching or counselling journey has been part of her practice ever since. Over the years she has attended many courses on Art Therapy, Sand Play and Creative Arts - working with multi media, clay, fabric, threads, images, pastels, paints and metaphor - and she has successfully taken these skills into organisations and teams as well as working with them with individuals. She has also developed skills as an NLP Trainer, Hypnotherapist and Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling Practitioner and is also an individual and group coach Supervisor.

After a fortuitous turn in her career, Lindsey found her real calling and moved from a career in the Technology sector to qualifying as an NLP practitioner and becoming CIPD qualified. Since then she has trained in many models and approaches including Clean Language, Transactional Analysis, CBT, Motivational Interviewing and other concepts from greats like Nancy Kline, Byron Katie and Kristin Neff, but still she felt something was missing.

Creativity filled that gap and she has come to believe it provides a unique way for clients to look deeply at their issues and find new insights and new, and more helpful ways of ‘being’.

She works as an Executive coach with corporate clients and work with neuro-typical and neurodiverse private clients who are at significant crossroads in their lives. Her approach is to help clients find clarity, focus and momentum using any tools or models that she thinks will best serve her client, but creativity is at the cornerstone of all she does. She has never found age or seniority a barrier for creativity. Everyone can pick up a pencil. And that’s all it takes!

Emma is a holistic therapist and trainee counsellor. She has been working in the heart of the community for a number of years seeing clients from all backgrounds. She is passionate about supporting others in the helping professions and is author of "Self-Care for Givers & the Helping Professions". She offers a monthly healing and wellbeing session for counsellors to refill their cups.

Karen works full time for the Local Authority as a Senior SEND Lead worker and also has her own private counselling practice. She delivers parenting courses for parents with SEND children as part of her job too. She offers creative tools and appropriate interventions to support change as an integrative and collaborative counsellor, incorporating many theories into her work and the use of creative interventions. Karen offers a monthly online peer support circle for members to connect with each other.

Kathleen is a Person Centred Creative counsellor working in private practice in Glasgow. Alongside in person sessions she also offers 'walk and talk sessions' in a local park, and through this she has connected with a local charity, with whom she now partners with, to deliver outdoor creative groups for the local community. This is something that she has high hopes of developing further.

Kathleen is Neurodivergent (ADHD) and has a special interest in working with Neurodivergent clients. She is always happy to chat to people about her lived experience. She finds it important that more understanding about this is accessible. She is passionate about working with creativity and helping people reconnect with that part of themselves. She is excited to be working on developing Creative Counsellors networking groups in Scotland and would love to meet with more local creative counsellors for mutual inspiration and support. The three words she uses that reflect her work are 'Creativity, Curiosity, Connection'.