Emma Boyd-Madsen - Art Therapist

AVAILABILITY - WEDNESDAY PM
HCPC REGISTRATION - AS019451
ICO REGISTRATION - ZC105217 

Emma is a Scottish/Danish HCPC-registered art psychotherapist who works in a creative, collaborative, playful and person-centred way. Sessions offer a warm space to slow down and explore thoughts and feelings through art-making and conversation. Working at your own pace, the process can help make sense of experiences, notice patterns and gently see things from different perspectives. Art therapy can open ways of thinking and communicating that do not rely on words alone.

In sessions you might draw, paint or work with tactile materials such as clay or textiles, though there is no expectation to be ‘good at art’. The focus is on the experience of making rather than the finished result. Sensory, hands-on materials can support grounding, emotional regulation and expression, sometimes making it easier to approach thoughts or feelings that are difficult to put into words.

Before training as an art psychotherapist, Emma worked as a textile designer and art teacher, a background that continues to inform her practice. She has experience across inpatient mental health services, schools, Montessori environments and community spaces, working extensively with children and young people as well as adults navigating psychosis, self-harm, suicidal ideation, displacement and significant life transitions.

As a queer and neurodivergent practitioner, she is attentive to how identities are shaped by social and political contexts and thinks about therapy in relation to community, connection and collective care. She welcomes enquiries from anyone curious about working together.