Holistic ART therapy for insight, healing and inner wisdom

A Creative, Non-Verbal Approach to Wellbeing

Sometimes our deepest emotions are hard to express through words alone. That's where creative expression comes in.

Holistic Art Therapy at Templestone Wellbeing is grounded in Meaning Architecture— a reflective framework that explores how meaning, values, and inner structures shape wellbeing, resilience, and decision-making. Through creative and symbolic processes, clients are supported to restore coherence where stress, fatigue, or life experiences have disrupted their inner foundations.

    • Art-based therapies are increasingly recognised as powerful, evidence-backed approaches for supporting a wide range of mental health concerns, including stress, anxiety, trauma, and emotional regulation.

    • Research shows that engaging in creative expression activates the brain's natural capacity for neuroplasticity — the ability to rewire and form new, healthier patterns of thought and behaviour.

    • Physiologically, art-making has been shown to reduce cortisol levels, improve immune function, and enhance emotional regulation and cardiovascular balance. These benefits are amplified when art therapy is integrated with holistic counselling, creating a safe and supportive space for authentic self-expression.

  • Creative and symbolic practice offers a way of working with experience that goes beyond words alone. Art functions as a language of the unconscious, allowing thoughts, emotions, and inner tensions to surface in a form that can be seen, felt, and reflected upon. Through symbolic insight, individuals develop deeper awareness of their inner landscape, recognising patterns, values, and meanings that may not be immediately accessible through rational analysis. By making meaning visible and tangible, creative processes support clarity, coherence, and integration—helping individuals and groups restore connection between inner experience and outer action. description

  • Templestone Wellbeing’s one-on-one meaning-centred support offers individual holistic art therapy sessions designed to guide clients through stress, burnout, and life transitions. Using creative and symbolic practices, these sessions provide a safe, reflective space where individuals can explore their inner experience, reconnect with personal values, explore personal narratives, and restore a sense of clarity and coherence.

    This approach supports the development of practical tools and insights that foster resilience, wellbeing, and sustainable personal growth, tailored to each individual’s unique journey.

    Holistic art therapy bridges the mind-body connection, honouring the interplay between our thoughts, emotions, and physical wellbeing —supporting true, integrated healing.

Begin Your Journey
A person with a grey sleeve is using orange scissors to cut a photo of a lion under a starry sky. The table has other colorful pictures, including flowers, insects, and nature scenes.
Mixed media artwork featuring a stylized portrait of a person's face with expressive eyes, surrounded by leaves and natural elements, incorporating layered watercolor, ink, and three-dimensional leaves.
Mixed media art piece featuring black and white photographs, fabric, buttons, wire, and paint. One photo shows a close-up of an eye, another depicts a woman sitting outdoors. The background has drawn cloud shapes, a red heart with a silhouette of a person inside, and various textured elements.
Mixed art scene with rocks, feathers, beads, a small boat, and painted background.

Common questions about Art Based Therapy

    • Mindfulness: Brings you into the present moment and calms a busy mind

    • Relaxation: Soothes both mind and body

    • Self-Acceptance: Releases self-judgment and connects you to your authentic self

    • Enhanced Intuition: Activates creativity and strengthens inner wisdom

    • Personal Growth: Helps identify and release what no longer serves you

    • Brain Health: Provides cognitive stimulation that builds mental resilience

    • One-on-One Sessions

    • Group/Workplace Wellbeing Workshops (Half or full day)

    • Workshops are created to suit the unique needs of each team, integrating one or more expressive forms of creativity

  • Templestone Wellbeing provides non-clinical, trauma-aware wellbeing and leadership support for individuals, teams, and organisations operating in high-pressure environments.

    Services include:

    • Individuals experiencing mental various stressors (excluding Axis mental health disorders), such as relationships, anxiety, grief and loss, menopause.

    • Seeking holistic development, a deeper connection or understanding of themselves and positive transformation.

    • Leadership and team programs supporting ethical decision making, adaptive capacity, and psychological safety

    • Symbolic, creative, and reflective methodologies that support insight where conventional language-based approaches are insufficient

    Templestone Wellbeing does not provide clinical diagnosis, or medical treatment. Our work does not replace mental health care and is not positioned as clinical intervention.

    Where clinical or specialised support is required, appropriate referral to qualified healthcare or mental health professionals is encouraged.

    All services are delivered within a clear ethical framework, prioritising safety, consent, confidentiality, and professional boundaries.

Are you intrigued?

All artworks displayed are Angelina’s own therapeutic works

Play is an important element of the arts.

“Creativity takes courage”

— Henri Matisse