Personal Statement
Naomi Press, MA
Art Psychotherapist and Community Artist
Areas of Special Interest
I am a Fully qualified and HPC registered Art Therapist based in North London and registered with BAAT. Currently I work as an Art Therapist for Freedom from Torture, and in Arts in Health for CNWL NHS Trust.
I have experience of working in a wide range of different settings, from acute adolescent mental health, to voluntary sector organisations and educational settings. I have also worked abroad, in severely deprived and traumatised refugee communities in South Africa and Palestine.
As a Community Artist I have over 10 years experience in working with hard to reach communities and at risk young people. I develop and facilitate projects that will engage the groups I work with and foster the development of creativity and imagination.
My original training is in BA Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art, specializing in Sculpture. I continue my own arts practice, participating in group exhibitions and collaborations with other artists and multidisciplinary art projects.
Key Skills
Contact Details
Art Psychotherapist and Community Artist
Areas of Special Interest
- Trauma
- Refugee and Asylum Care
- Adult Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Eating Disorders
- Education; Primary, Secondary and Pupil Referral Units
- Arts in Health
I am a Fully qualified and HPC registered Art Therapist based in North London and registered with BAAT. Currently I work as an Art Therapist for Freedom from Torture, and in Arts in Health for CNWL NHS Trust.
I have experience of working in a wide range of different settings, from acute adolescent mental health, to voluntary sector organisations and educational settings. I have also worked abroad, in severely deprived and traumatised refugee communities in South Africa and Palestine.
As a Community Artist I have over 10 years experience in working with hard to reach communities and at risk young people. I develop and facilitate projects that will engage the groups I work with and foster the development of creativity and imagination.
My original training is in BA Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art, specializing in Sculpture. I continue my own arts practice, participating in group exhibitions and collaborations with other artists and multidisciplinary art projects.
Key Skills
- Fostering and maintaining sensitive and professional relationships with clients from different backgrounds and experiences
- Working creatively and therapeutically with a wide range of client groups
- Adaptive and flexible practice with experience of facilitating group, family and individual therapy
- Developing and delivering therapeutic programmes that involve both non-directive and directive art therapy approaches
- Confidence and experience in a wide range of arts and digital media
- Encourage and support personal exploration within safe and boundaried therapeutic relationship
- Providing art therapy assessment, writing reports and maintaining appropriate and accurate clinical records
- Excellent communication skills and professional relations within multi-disciplinary environments and teams
Contact Details
- Mobile: +44(0)7917 100 778
- Full Curriculum Vitae and references available on request
