Richard Neal

Art therapy offers you a space to explore your creativity, and in so doing find new means to explore yourself, and to share this with others. You thus simultaneously can be in contact with you inner self and others. Expressing yourself in a creative act, however daunting or exciting that may seem at the outset, intrinsically brings with it a benefit in that you are doing something, and whatever topics we look at are seen in the frame of action that is already taking place. The process itself may provide great benefits - the brain will is not able to perceive pain and stress as acutely when involved in a creative process as when it is not. But the therapeutic triangle of you, me and your work, with the relationships on all three sides being accorded equal value and respect, can provide an incredibly powerful model to explore where you are, where you have come from, and where you want to go. And you have already started moving forward before you have left the studio. In our beautiful art therapy studio in Kreuzberg, we have a large range of materials to offer you, from watercolour, gouache and acrylic paints, soft pastels and oil pastels, all kinds of pens and pencils of every colour, to linocut, clay, collage, and cyanotype, and all kinds of papers on which to spread them. www.accept.berlin I'm a Heilpraktiker in the field of psychotherapy under German law, and a clinical art therapist: alongside private practice I work in the Psychosomatic Dept. at the Charite hospital, Berlin. Previously I studied fine arts to masters level in Berlin, Sheffield, Newcastle and Munich. I'm from the UK, am now a dual citizen, and have been living in Berlin for over 15 years. I work in both English and German