The Gentle Art of Expressive Therapy

The Gentle Art of Expressive Therapy

"Often the hands will solve a mystery the intellect has struggled with in vain" – Carl Jung

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  • Expressive Art Therapy : Bottom Up Healing

    Talk therapy undoubtedly has its place. For me, both personally and professionally, it had its limitations. Empathy and being understood is a powerful component that allows for change to happen. But the combination of an empathetic and warm therapeutic relationship that includes multi-modal expressive arts brings a whole new level of healing that goes deeper. […]

    Paula Huggins

    May 3, 2022
    Expressive Therapy
    Bottom Up, Complex Trauma, Expressive Arts Therapy, Healing, Sandplay
  • ETA’s Certificate in Expressive Therapies with Children and Adolescents

    Somatic & Emotion Focused, Creative Arts-based Counselling for Emotional Integration Singapore – In Person – Starts December 2022 Five 3-day In-Person Training Workshops: 15 days over 7 months. Trainer: Dr Mark Pearson This highly experiential in-person course offers training in creative arts-based, emotionally expressive methods and inner-life skills that promote emotional integration, self-awareness and resilience […]

    Paula Huggins

    March 29, 2022
    Expressive Therapy, Training
    Expressive Therapies Institute of Australia, Expressive Therapy
  • Healing Through Creative Expression

    Engagement in creative expressive therapies connects us to our own potential for healing. It is sad that so many people view themselves as “bad at art” but the fundamental healing power of self expression through music, movement, sound, touch, colour and shape is an innate part being human. We ignore it or shut it down […]

    Paula Huggins

    February 17, 2022
    Uncategorized
  • Workshop: The Gentle Art of Compassionate Communication

    Are you fed up with feeling that people just don’t “get” you? Tired of repeating yourself over and over and feeling like nobody really hears what you are trying to say? Are you longing to authentically show up, stand up and be counted?  But struggle with a fear of offending others?   Have you experienced […]

    Paula Huggins

    April 9, 2021
    Uncategorized
    communication, NVC, workshop
  • The Gentle Art of Parenting Teens

    12 Hour Practical Workshop (3 hours per week for four mornings a week) : May 2021 I don’t claim that I have the magic wand – but if you are looking to brush up your skills and find some fresh strategies to use with your teenager, this could be the course for you. Parenting is […]

    Paula Huggins

    April 5, 2021
    Uncategorized
  • The Gentle Art of Parenting

    12 Hour Practical Workshop (3 hours per week for four mornings a week) : May 2021 Parenting is a skill we develop along the way and not something we are taught before the kids arrive. Becoming a parent might be the biggest personal development project you’ve ever undertaken – and one that you had no […]

    Paula Huggins

    April 4, 2021
    Uncategorized
  • New Intake for 2022 Sandplay and Symbol Work Certificate (Now Fully Booked)

    If you wish to be kept informed of next dates or have any questions about the course please submit the form below. Scroll down further for information about the course and its content. Certificate in Expressive Sandplay and Symbol Work with children, adolescents and adults 12-Day Training Coursein-person in Singapore Facilitator: Paula Huggins Limited Number of […]

    Paula Huggins

    April 4, 2021
    Sandplay, Uncategorized
  • Expressive Therapies: addressing some common misconceptions

    Expressive therapy provides a range of interactive, creative arts-based, projective techniques and interventions. It draws both on the principles of psychotherapy as well as the creative experience of the client to gain insight and to achieve growth, healing and integration. There are a few common misconceptions about the work I do with clients that I’d […]

    Paula Huggins

    August 28, 2020
    Expressive Therapy, Uncategorized
    creativity, Expressive Therapy, Healing, Integration, Post-Traumatic Growth, Projection
  • What do you think?

    Our thoughts shape the way we perceive ourselves and the world around us. The biggest changes in my personal journey of growth came about when I began to recognize that the majority of the thoughts I was thinking weren’t actually true (big thank-you to Byron Katie’s The Work https://thework.com/). What?! Thoughts aren’t true?! That’s right. […]

    Paula Huggins

    July 17, 2020
    Uncategorized
    Change, Meditation, Optimism, Thoughts
  • Now Is The Time

    There are many strengths, values, characteristics and habits we develop throughout our lives but among the most important for me right now are creativity, gratitude, simplicity, purpose, and resiliency. Now is the time to strengthen and draw on them all, in whatever capacity we can, in service of the greater good. For me this means […]

    Paula Huggins

    March 26, 2020
    Uncategorized
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