HICAT THERAPIES

Healing through creative expression

Holistic Integrated Creative Arts Therapy. Using the creative process to support mental health, emotional wellbeing, and personal growth. A gentle, person-centred approach that connects body, mind, and imagination.

WHAT IS HICAT?

Body, mind, and imagination are deeply connected

HICAT (Holistic Integrated Creative Arts Therapy) is a therapeutic approach that uses creative processes to improve and enhance physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. It recognises that we are whole, interconnected beings and that creativity is a powerful route to understanding and healing.

Unlike purely verbal therapies, HICAT allows you to explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences through making, moving, and creating. It's particularly helpful when words feel insufficient or when you need a different way in.

Sessions are adaptive, gentle, and led by you. There's no artistic skill required: the process matters, not the product.

Holistic

Consideration of the whole person: body, mind, and spirit working together as an interconnected system.

Integrated

An amalgamation of creative techniques, often combining two or more modalities within a single session.

Creative

Using arts-based processes as the vehicle for exploration, expression, and transformation.

Therapeutic

Grounded in therapeutic principles, focused on your wellbeing, growth, and supported self-discovery

You don't need to be in crisis to benefit

HICAT supports people navigating a wide range of experiences. It meets you where you are.

Stress & Burnout

For those carrying the weight of demanding roles, responsibilities, or environments and needing a space to decompress and reconnect.

Life Transitions

Navigating change: career shifts, relationship changes, bereavement, retirement, or identity questions.

Anxiety & Low Mood

A gentle, embodied alternative or complement to talking therapies for managing anxiety, depression, or emotional overwhelm.

Personal Growth

For anyone wanting to understand themselves better, build confidence, develop self-expression, or simply explore creativity as a wellbeing practice.

Trauma Recovery

Creative approaches can access what verbal processing sometimes cannot. A safe, boundaried space for working through difficult experiences.

Organisations & Teams

Wellbeing workshops for workplaces: reducing stress, building resilience, improving communication, and supporting team cohesion.

WHAT TO EXPECT

A SESSION WITH ME

01.

Initial Conversation

A free, no-pressure chat to understand what you're looking for and whether HICAT feels right for you.

02.

Settling In

Sessions begin gently. Grounding, breathing, and arriving in the space. No rushing, no expectations.

03.

Creative Exploration

Guided creative activities adapted to you. Drawing, movement, writing, sound, clay, collage: whatever serves the moment.

04.

Reflection & Integration

Making sense of what emerged. Connecting creative discoveries to your lived experience. Gentle, supported, at your pace.