Gayle Creasey
| Professional Title: | Integrative Child Psychotherapist |
|---|---|
| Contact Number: | 07941279177 |
| Email: | g-a-creasey@hotmail.co.uk |
| Location: | New Road Consultancy |
| Membership: | UKCP (reg) |
| Fee: | £40 |
Gayle has extensive experience working as a creative arts psychotherapist with young people aged 5-18 years and also young adults aged 18 - 25 years. Gayle has worked for seven years as a counsellor and psychotherapist in primary and secondary schools in East and West Sussex and also works with local authorities to provide therapeutic support for young people who have been fostered and adopted. She has also worked for four years with the Rise Project supporting woman and children who have experienced domestic abuse.
Gayle has worked with young people experiencing bereavement, parental separation, adoption and fostering, anxiety and depression, trauma, sexual abuse, the effects of domestic abuse, self harm, substance misuse, anger and aggression, withdrawn behaviour and low self-esteem.
Gayle works in a way that follows the young person’s natural instinct to use the language of play to make sense of their world and the events, relationships and emotions within it. Using creative play means that the young person does not always have to rely on words to express what is going on inside them. Instead, they can use their creativity to connect with feelings, issues or events affecting their well being and which they may otherwise be unable to express. Creative arts psychotherapy can therefore offer the young person a safe way to express powerful and difficult emotions. If they do not have this outlet, such emotions can often be expressed through challenging or withdrawn behaviour.
In a session the young person may choose to use painting, sand tray, music, movement, puppets or clay. However, the young person does not need to feel good at art; sessions are about playing and the process of discovery, not producing artwork.
Gayle works with individuals, groups of young people, with parents on their own, and with parents and their child or adolescent together.
Gayle’s theoretical approach is integrative, incorporating Psychodynamic, Gestalt, Object Relations and Attachment theories, Mindfulness and Buddhist theories.
