Sama Hunt

I actively engage in a de- colonising therapeutic practice, one that recognises the oppositional constraints on lived experiences under the influence and brutality of discrimination and ultimately the falsity of many types of societal privilege I believe that art heals and have witnessed people discover themselves again and again through creative process and relating. Whether you are at a cross roads in your life or would like to make sense of past challenges/traumas. Please do get in touch in-order to receive the ‘holding support’ of a dynamic therapy that will enable you to access your innate ability to interrogate, integrate and compassionately transform.

London Art Therapy Centre Art Psychotherapist online and in person London and internationally 07/22- present Art Psychotherapist School psychotherapist, Therapy coordinator                                                   09/2016 - Present Central Foundation Girls School London Art Psychotherapist East London Foundation Trust - London Senior Art Psychotherapist, July 2005-Present Roles, and responsibilities across these roles ·   Providing an art psychotherapy assessment and treatment service to adult/ young people mental health challenges ·   Planning and prioritising client caseloads, specifically clients detained under the Mental Health Act and those managing their mental health in the community ·   Assessing patients and clients for therapeutic support ·   Preparing written initial assessments, progress reviews, and discharge summaries on regular basis and disseminating these to other involved professionals, agencies and clients as appropriate ·   Applying Art Psychotherapy theory/models to understanding and interpreting the process and outcome of psychotherapy sessions ·   Creating a safe, containing and facilitating environment ·   Assess client's mental state and identifying any significant risk factors, or, collaboratively undertaking risk assessments with other professionals ·   Promotion of Art Psychotherapy ·   Maintain comprehensive electronic Progress Records and statistics for audit on all contacts with service users. ·   Evaluating Art Therapy intervention in conjunction with clients and other professionals ·Supervision of Art Therapy trainees ·   Research and development of service, and alongside delivering training to MDT this included being part of the ERA research project which is a Manualised longitudinal piece of research that looks at the efficacy of the Arts Therapies Managing a case load of private practice clients from a range of diverse cultures, intersectional identities, including people who identify as GSRD.

I trained to become an Art Psychotherapist at Goldsmiths university in 1999, and have been practicing ever since. I am currently both employed within the NHS and education. In 2014 I decided to learn to teach meditation and qualified from Bangar university with an MBSR this allows me to incorporate meditation within my art Psychotherapy practice. I currently have a growing private practice in central London, there I see clients in person and offer therapy online to a handful of International clients.