Relational Art Therapy
when words are not enough
You are not your symptoms.
You are the whole story.
Trauma-informed art psychotherapy for people navigating anxiety, burnout, relational wounds, queerness, and the quiet weight of being human, from an intersectional, feminist lens.
Art Therapy happens in relationship.
Art therapy is sometimes mistakenly thought of as a relaxing activity like colouring that relieves stress. And while that can be genuinely wonderful they are not a substitute for the deeper work that happens in psychotherapy. The difference is the relationship, the training, and the intention. Art psychotherapy is a rigorous, evidence-based practice that uses the creative process to access what words often can't reach.
Trauma lives in the body. It organises itself below the level of language. Sometimes the most important things are the ones we can't quite say, but can express through colour, shape, texture, image.
In art psychotherapy, the art isn't the goal.
What matters is what emerges through it.
You don't need any artistic ability. Only curiosity to try something different.
“The most powerful medication you can prescribe is the relationship.”
You might be here because
something isn't working.
You carry anxiety like a second skin
It's exhausting to live in a body that's always bracing. You've tried to manage it, understand it, push through it. Maybe it's time to actually listen to it.
You’re experiencing
burnout
When productivity became survival. When rest feels impossible. When you've forgotten what you actually enjoy or that you're allowed to.
Relationships leave you depleted or confused
Patterns that repeat. Boundaries that collapse. The feeling of never quite being met or never quite knowing how to meet yourself.
Your nervous system is stuck
in survival mode
Whether it's something that happened once or something that accumulated over years, your body remembers. You're looking for a space that understands that, and doesn't rush you through it.
You're navigating queerness
or non-monogamy
You need a space that doesn't require you to explain yourself, defend your identity, or edit your reality to make the room comfortable.
Talk therapy hasn't
been enough
You've done the talking. You have the insights. But there's something that lives in the body, beyond what words can reach. The creative process opens another door.
What you carry isn’t yours alone. What looks like a problem to be fixed is often the body's most intelligent attempt to cope. We begin by getting curious about that.
Credentials & Practice
Bachelor’s in Social Work
Postgraduate in Art Psychotherapy & Community Art
Master’s in Art Psychotherapy
Certification in Movitational Interviewing
Registered member of ATe
(Asociación profesional española de arteterapeutas)
Active clinical supervision
About me
Art Therapist in Relational Psychoanalysis
I’m Alexandra, and I'm here to stay curious with you. About what you're sitting with, where it lives in your body, and what it might be trying to say.
My practice is rooted in the understanding that we are shaped by our relationships from our earliest days. The patterns we learned in connection with others become blueprints for how we move through the world, especially in intimate relationships.
I bring curiosity to those patterns rather than judgment, and I work from a trauma-informed approach that understands how our history lives in the body and nervous system. Because not everything can be solved with words. Some things need to be felt, moved through, expressed. The body is part of the work.
In my sessions, I draw from a variety of approaches, such as Motivational Interviewing (MI), Mentalization, attachment theory, psychodynamic-based therapy, and mindfulness. Beyond any specific method, I believe what truly heals is the relationship we build together. I don't see people in isolation, I see them in the context of their histories, their relationships, and the systems they've had to navigate. Those systems matter. And they're worth questioning.
Outside the session room, I like moving my body, reading things that make me think differently, and just being a human navigating life.
WORK WITH ME
Two ways to be here,
depending on what you need.
1:1 Art Psychotherapy
A dedicated space to slow down, go inward, and be accompanied. We work together to understand the root of what you're carrying, not just manage the symptoms.
Each session is grounded in relational psychodynamic psychotherapy, a method that has no fixed way of working but is adapted to each person’s needs. I draw from different approaches to find what feels most supportive for you. Held online, weekly.
60-minute weekly sessions, online
No artistic skills needed, we focus on the process
Trauma-informed, somatic and relational approach
Intersectional, feminist and queer-affirming
Make Bad Art Membership
A non-clinical creative community where we actively confront perfectionism. We gather weekly to make (bad) art, regulate our nervous systems, and reflect.
Each week we explore a mental health theme such as boundaries, play, inner landscape, rest through gentle check-ins, creative warm-ups, and shared art-making time.
Weekly live sessions, Sundays 18:00–19:30 GMT+1
Access to the full library of recorded sessions
Permission to play, reflect and rest in a supportive community
Not art therapy but genuinely therapeutic
No art skills needed, with simple materials you have at home
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An art therapy session usually unfolds in three stages: meeting, creating, and sharing.
We begin by welcoming each other, giving space for you to share how you are and anything that feels important to bring into the session. Then comes the creation stage, a time for you to work with the art materials available. Finally, we move to sharing, where we reflect together and help you make sense of your experience.
That said, every session is unique and shaped by you. Sometimes there may be no creating at all, we might simply talk. Other times, you may create without feeling the need to share. Both are part of the process, and both are okay.
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Yes, art therapy is possible even online. The main difference is that we meet through a video platform such as Teams, and you bring whatever art materials you have available with you.
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The length of therapy is unique to each person and depends on your needs and goals. In the first three sessions, we focus on assessment, a space for you to share about yourself and what brought you here, to try the experience of art therapy, and for us to sense together whether we are a good fit.
After this initial period, we decide on the frequency of sessions based on what feels most helpful for you. Weekly sessions are often recommended at the start, as they help to build a trusting relationship and create continuity in the process. Over time, sessions can become less frequent, as you gain new insights, tools, and perspectives to carry with you.
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Art therapy may be right for you if you are willing to engage in a psychotherapeutic process and wish to add another form of communication beyond words. Art therapy offers a space where the creative process can help express what language alone cannot. Because it is experiential, art therapy can sometimes help you access important insights more quickly.
I will be there to guide you, holding the space for both your words and your art, and supporting you in expressing yourself in the way that feels most authentic to you. You don’t need any artistic skills; what matters most is your openness to the process. In art therapy, as in any form of therapy, the most important element is the quality of the relationship between client and therapist.
You don't need to know where to start.That's what the first conversation is for.
I offer a free 30-minute introductory call so we can meet, you can ask questions, and we can see if working together feels right.