Art Therapy with Qualified Art Therapist Children (Age 6-9) - 10 week Block

Early Intervention is a local group that provides opportunities for children who experience challenges with social interaction and/or require additional support regulating their emotions.

Subsidized by Aberdeen City Council Creative Funding, An inclusive 10 week small group activity session incorporating adult-directed structured and semi-structured art.

Cost £3 per child per week (£30 for the 10 week block)

We make every effort to ensure that early intervention remains open and inclusive and that no child is disadvantaged financially, please contact us in confidence if you require full assistance for your child.

Children age 6-9 years (Siblings age 6+ are welcome to join the session but will required to book a space)

Aim: To provide a flexible and safe environment so that participants can feel able to explore

themselves and their creativity and be accepting of who they are and what they do. Its

overall purpose is to promote opportunities for parent and child relationship building,

relaxation, autonomy, and agency, with an emphasis on young people gaining expressing

their ideas thoughts and feeling. This is hoped to be achieved by embracing the following

objectives:

• Recognise and increase strengths.
• To provide opportunities for parent-child relationship building.
• Provide opportunities for relaxation, enjoyment and fun.
• Value own communication preferences
• Value own play preferences
• Value own learning preferences
• Promote autonomy, agency, and self-advocacy.
• Promote the sharing and collaboration that comes from working as a group.
• Promoting peer networking and a sense of comm

Tracey, a qualified art therapist has almost two decades of experience working in the fields of children, young people and their families, and mental health. She has worked as an art therapist in a variety of roles and settings, for a large part of this time, including working with children and young people in voluntary and educational settings. She has worked as a counsellor and art therapist in the education sector for over five years. During this time she has worked with both primary and secondary-aged children / young people.

She is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as an Art Therapist. She is also a full member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).

Please note that this is a small group session (upto 6 children aged between 6 and 9 years of age)

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We make every effort to ensure that early intervention remains open and inclusive and that no child is disadvantaged financially, please contact us in confidence if you require full assistance for your child.

Host or Publisher Early Intervention Aberdeen