Kellie’s Approach and Qualifications

Kellie is an Art Psychotherapist who offers a warm, reflective, and trauma-informed space for clients of all ages. Art therapy is an established form of psychotherapy that combines creative expression with talking, guided by a trained therapist. You do not need to be skilled in art to benefit from this work. The value lies in what the artwork represents for you, not in how it looks.

In sessions, clients use art materials in a sensitive and safe way to explore complex emotional experiences, process trauma, and reflect on thoughts and feelings that may be difficult to express verbally. Artwork becomes a bridge to understanding, insight, and emotional regulation. Kellie works closely with clients to explore the thoughts, memories, and relational patterns that emerge, helping them make sense of past experiences, deepen self-awareness, and move forward with clarity and confidence.

Her approach is person-centred and psychodynamically informed, with a strong emphasis on safety, containment, and emotional grounding.

Kellie works with diagnosed or undiagnosed, medicated or non-medicated clients, and she supports children, adolescents, adults, and older adults.

Children and Adolescents

Kellie supports young people with attachment difficulties, developmental challenges, trauma, identity, family dynamics and experiences of loss or change. When helpful, she collaborates with parents or carers to strengthen emotional communication and support the wider system.

She also has extensive experience with neurodiverse children and adolescents, helping them develop self-regulation, emotional understanding and accessible ways of expressing their inner world.

Older Adults

Kellie supports older adults who wish to explore long-standing relational patterns, unresolved emotional conflicts, bereavement, retirement or changes in life roles. Her work fosters emotional resilience, reflection and meaningful connection.

Learning Difficulties and Disabilities

Kellie has extensive experience supporting clients with learning disabilities in educational and NHS settings, including those who are non-verbal or find verbal communication challenging.

Art therapy provides a safe, accessible route into expression. Kellie has collaborated closely with Speech and Language Therapists and Occupational Therapists, including developing Makaton timetables and a ‘found objects’ group to support emotional communication. She has completed the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training.

Trauma and Emotional Well-being

Kellie integrates a trauma-informed and psychodynamic approach across all client groups. Art-making allows clients to engage safely with difficult emotions, develop emotional regulation and gain deeper insight into their internal world. Her work explores relationships, unprocessed trauma, behavioural patterns and the impact of early experiences.

Domestic and Narcissistic Abuse

Kellie provides specialised therapeutic support for those affected by domestic abuse and narcissistic abuse. Art psychotherapy can access procedural memory and help process overwhelming or confusing experiences that may be difficult to express verbally. She works with adults, young people and within mother–child relationships through Dyadic Art Therapy to rebuild safety, emotional connection and communication after trauma.

Autism and ADHD

Kellie has extensive experience supporting children, teenagers and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD. She works with emotional regulation, communication differences, sensory needs and the impact these can have on relationships, learning and daily life. Her approach blends psychodynamic understanding with practical strategies, helping clients make sense of triggers, overwhelm and patterns such as masking, impulsivity or shutdowns. Art psychotherapy also offers an accessible route for neurodivergent clients to explore feelings and identity in a safe and non-verbal way.

Couples and Relationship Work

Kellie offers relationship-focused support for older couples and for parents who are finding aspects of parenting particularly challenging. Drawing on her psychodynamic training and art psychotherapy background, she provides a reflective and supportive space for partners to explore communication patterns, emotional dynamics, and the impact of life transitions or family stress on their relationship. Her work helps couples deepen understanding, strengthen connection, and navigate long-standing difficulties with warmth and sensitivity, especially when parenting pressures, neurodiversity, or complex emotional histories are shaping the relationship.

Kellie offers counselling and psychotherapy to teenagers, adults, couples and older adults from our Blackheath clinic, serving Greenwich, Lewisham, and the wider South East London area. She also offers online sessions.