Richard Neal
Counsellor
I will give you an open, dynamic and free environment where you can explore creatively to the full, and examine together what you make with attunement and without judgment. It's an honour to welcome you.
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About me
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
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Approach
I aim to be as open, accepting and non-judgmental as possible, seeing my role to facilitate growth by meeting you and your work fully where you are. I aim to treat what you make with the same unconditional respect and as I treat you and everything else you bring with you. I believe in creative freedom – the art therapy studio is a space where work is not to be judged, where any means of expressing oneself in any material available is given free reign, and in which mistakes cannot actually be made. Anything may be tried.
There can be a joy in discovering the means, inner and outer, with which one can express oneself beyond the spoken word, and it is always an honour to be present when such work takes place and to share in observing it afterwards it with you. I don’t claim to have greater insight into your work than you do. I may see something that you see, I may see something different, this provides for a beauty in exchanging our impressions and connecting them to you and whatever is happening in your life and in the moment. It is an honour to be in the presence of you and your work.
Experience
2023-present: Art therapist, clinic of psychosomatic medicine, Charite, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin
2022: Internship, psychosomatic department, Charite, Berlin
2022: Internship, Fliedner Day Clinic, specialisation in emotional dysregulation, Berlin
Education
2024 Heilpraktiker (Psychotherapie)
2023 Klinischer Kunsttherapeut (DGKT), Sigmund Freud University, Berlin
2006 Masters of Fine Art, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
1998 Bachelor (Honse) Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University
Services
Individual Session
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