Jenny Flannagan

I currently see private clients on a Tuesday.

I am an integrative psychotherapist and art therapist, registered with HCPC, working with adults and adolescents in the centre of Exeter. Whatever challenges life has thrown your way, I believe that a supportive relationship is the starting point for being able to face into those difficulties and find a way towards hope and meaning again.

Finding a therapist is a very personal process. You need to find somebody you feel you can trust, and somebody you believe can help you.

I see therapy as a unique opportunity to build a relationship where you feel safe and understood, and where we can face some of our greatest challenges and most painful experiences, in the hope of moving to a life of increased joy and purpose.

Being an “integrative psychotherapist” means that I draw on a number of different approaches to therapy to find what is most helpful for each of my clients. My art therapy training means that I love to draw on all kinds of creativity - using images, paint, clay, sand tray, movement and poetry - as a way of exploring things that can be hard to talk about. I never enforce use of the arts but I make them available to everyone I work with.

I work face to face with clients from my office in Argyle House, Candy Street in the centre of Exeter. It is a calm space in a beautiful part of town. Work on zoom may also be considered.

As an art therapist I make all kinds of creative materials available to my clients. No artistic expertise or previous experience is required and the goal is never artistic brilliance! I encourage experimentation and self-exploration because I believe the arts offer us a way of communicating and exploring our inner worlds in ways which words do not always allow. I do not interpret my clients' work or tell them what it means - together we think about what it might contain.

Sessions last 50 minutes and usually take place weekly. Sessions cost £50 and can be paid weekly or per half-term. My work follows state school term dates. In the summer I do not work during August.

My practise operates on a Tuesday between 8am and 6.30pm.

Qualifications:

MA Integrative Arts Psychotherapy (IATE) 

Diploma in Counselling Teenagers (IATE)

Postgraduate diploma in the therapeutic arts (IATE)

MA (Cantab) English 

I offer all new clients an initial session in which we can get to know one another and decide whether or not we would like to meet regularly. In this initial session I will try to understand what has brought you to therapy and what you are hoping to explore. I will have arts materials available should you wish to use them.