This International Women’s Day we are celebrating the work of our female-led creative arts therapy team.

At Kids Inspire, we particularly favour creative arts therapies due to the evidenced healing the arts can provide using metaphor and projective techniques, exploration and experimentation to integrate a mind/body therapeutic experience. 

Through dynamic, symbolic and expressive activities, our women-led therapeutic team are making a significant impact on the lives of the children, young people and families they work with. 

Dramatherapy 

Our Dramatherapists are both artists and clinicians, drawing on their training in drama and therapy. They use an indirect approach of stories, myths, play texts, puppetry, masks and improvisation to help a client explore difficult and painful life experiences.  

Read about how one of our female therapists uses Dramatherapy to help their clients access more fun, creativity and curiosity here

Art Therapy  

Using art media as its primary mode of expression and communication, our art therapists use creative tools as a medium for clients to address emotional issues which may be confusing and distressing. 

Read about how an anonymous Kids Inspire female therapist uses a treasure bag full of artistic tools to support the young people she works with here

Music Therapy  

Our music therapists use sound to address the physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of the individual or group.  

This is the therapeutic foundation of our Sing My Own Song project, led by music therapist Fiona.  

You can read more about the project and its impact here

Dance/Movement Therapy 

This therapy is for children of all ages and uses body movement and dance to assist the integration of our emotional, cognitive, physical, social and spiritual aspects. 

In a dance and movement psychotherapy session with one of our female therapists, Anthony was able to explore his feelings surrounding his parent’s recent separation. 

Read more about Anthony’s story here  

We are very proud and grateful to all of the fantastic women that work both in our therapeutic team and in the wider organisation. It is because of them that we are able to help so many children, young people and families across Essex.