Hi, I’m Laura Bell
I am an artist, mother and Art Psychotherapist specialising in supporting mothers and their children. I
offer individual sessions to those who identify as mothers as well as mothers and their children
together and at present my work is concentrated to Mondays at Solus.
My Approach
Art Therapy
I am a relational therapist and I like to get to know people and their key relationships when we begin working together. My work is informed by DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) principles which is about accepting people’s stories for where they are at and making sense of them together. I offer a psychodynamic approach, which means working with people’s unconscious experiences, often from the past and bringing awareness to how they influence your feelings now.
Weaving curiosity and empathy into sessions with both parent and child can provide an opportunity to reconnect with each other and co-create a new understanding of one another through collaborative art making.
Art Therapy
Art making with an Art Psychotherapist can provide new ways of expressing thoughts and feelings that relies less on talking. What differentiates Art Psychotherapy to other forms of therapy is the materials can offer a means to capture inchoate* feelings that would otherwise be unreachable with words alone.
*Inchoate; something that has just begun and so not fully formed or developed.
The bulk of my experience
Since becoming a mother myself, I am driven to working with family dyads from a position of hope in providing a space where trust can be formed and healing can take place.
People that can work with me can be from any family constellation, foster, adoptive as well as birth families. I typically advise working with parents only in the first instance before leading into dyadic work as part of ensuring engagement in therapy with me feels timely for all.
Lura Bell BA (Hons) Fine Art - MSc Art Psychotherapy - DDP Level 1 & 2 Trained - Trauma Specialist
BASE Solus, 186 High Street, Burntisland
EMAIL laura.artpsychotherapy@gmail.com
PHONE 07846508358