Simon Woodward and Tanya Andrew co-foundered COATS in 2012.
Verity Blakeman joined COATS in 2016.
Verity Blakeman joined COATS in 2016.
Tanya Andrew
I have worked in adult mental health for 15 years. Since qualifying as an Art Therapist from Goldsmiths University in 2011 I have worked for a child and adolescent mental health charity and an NHS Trust, offering individual and group therapy as well psycho-educational training and courses. I completed a B.A. (hons) in Critical Fine Art Practice at Central Saint Martins Art College in 2000 and I am a founding member of Winnicott Wednesday’s Artist Collective and COATS (Community Outdoor Art Therapy). I have undertaken further post qualification training in art therapy supervision, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, mentalisation based therapy and ecotherapy. I continue to facilitate outdoor art therapy groups with service users as part of my NHS work.
I have worked in adult mental health for 15 years. Since qualifying as an Art Therapist from Goldsmiths University in 2011 I have worked for a child and adolescent mental health charity and an NHS Trust, offering individual and group therapy as well psycho-educational training and courses. I completed a B.A. (hons) in Critical Fine Art Practice at Central Saint Martins Art College in 2000 and I am a founding member of Winnicott Wednesday’s Artist Collective and COATS (Community Outdoor Art Therapy). I have undertaken further post qualification training in art therapy supervision, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, mentalisation based therapy and ecotherapy. I continue to facilitate outdoor art therapy groups with service users as part of my NHS work.
Simon Woodward
As well as achieving an MA in Art Psychotherapy I have undergone extensive training in nature-based therapies. My professional development also includes working with trauma, compassion-focused therapy and anger management. As an accredited BAAT private practitioner I provide personal therapy to all ages.
I am currently providing indoor art therapy within secondary schools and private individual outdoor art therapy to traumatized young people. Through a national organisation I provide art therapy to young people who have experienced domestic abuse. Last year, I also ran a group for New Dads for a family well-being organization.
I have been an associate lecturer at Roehampton University on the Art Psychotherapy training programme and through my private practice I have provided personal art therapy to trainee art therapists. I have provided outdoor art therapy on an educational farm with young people with severe emotional trauma and forensics histories. I have also worked within therapeutic care homes facilitating indoor art therapy to looked-after children.
I’m currently developing talks and papers that explore the neurological evolution of our creative and emotional connection with nature and each other.
I’m also writing and illustrating a book of poetry that explores my eco-anxiety entitled: ‘Natural Hysteria – Coping with nature’s destruction, poems of rhythming couplet construction.’
As well as achieving an MA in Art Psychotherapy I have undergone extensive training in nature-based therapies. My professional development also includes working with trauma, compassion-focused therapy and anger management. As an accredited BAAT private practitioner I provide personal therapy to all ages.
I am currently providing indoor art therapy within secondary schools and private individual outdoor art therapy to traumatized young people. Through a national organisation I provide art therapy to young people who have experienced domestic abuse. Last year, I also ran a group for New Dads for a family well-being organization.
I have been an associate lecturer at Roehampton University on the Art Psychotherapy training programme and through my private practice I have provided personal art therapy to trainee art therapists. I have provided outdoor art therapy on an educational farm with young people with severe emotional trauma and forensics histories. I have also worked within therapeutic care homes facilitating indoor art therapy to looked-after children.
I’m currently developing talks and papers that explore the neurological evolution of our creative and emotional connection with nature and each other.
I’m also writing and illustrating a book of poetry that explores my eco-anxiety entitled: ‘Natural Hysteria – Coping with nature’s destruction, poems of rhythming couplet construction.’
Verity Blakeman
I am an HCPC (Health and Care Professionals Council) registered Art Psychotherapist. My personal relationship with nature and the environment has been a continuous source of exploration and inspiration for my art practice, where I work predominantly with clay. I recognise the therapeutic effects from having contact with the natural world and I am interested in how human wellbeing is intrinsically linked to the wellbeing of the Earth. I am currently employed as an Art Psychotherapist, working with children and young people in Camden. Prior to this, I worked as a Community Artist for nine years where I was based in a community mental health service for adults. I have recently been facilitating outdoor art therapy provision for an NHS Mental Health Trust.
I am an HCPC (Health and Care Professionals Council) registered Art Psychotherapist. My personal relationship with nature and the environment has been a continuous source of exploration and inspiration for my art practice, where I work predominantly with clay. I recognise the therapeutic effects from having contact with the natural world and I am interested in how human wellbeing is intrinsically linked to the wellbeing of the Earth. I am currently employed as an Art Psychotherapist, working with children and young people in Camden. Prior to this, I worked as a Community Artist for nine years where I was based in a community mental health service for adults. I have recently been facilitating outdoor art therapy provision for an NHS Mental Health Trust.