About
As an integrative arts psychotherapist, Sarah Jane offers a collaborative, creative and relational approach in her therapeutic practice. Working therapeutically with the arts offers a gentle and facilitating environment in which to deepen self-awareness and support potential for change, growth and wellbeing. The arts can be utilised in many forms, including sand play, clay, music, poetry, postcards and imagination.
Position at Priory
Sarah Jane is an integrative art psychotherapist and has been working at Priory for 10 months. She is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and is a member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).
Training
- MA Integrative Arts Psychotherapy
- Postgraduate Diploma in the Therapeutic and Educational Application of the Arts both at the Institute of Arts and Education, Islington, London, in affiliation with the University of East London.
Research interests
Alongside clinical work, Sarah Jane has worked as an honorary researcher with the Horizon International Centre for Arts Psychotherapies Training (ICAPT) research programme at Central and North West London (CNWL) NHS Foundation Trust. She co-authored a pilot study looking at an art psychotherapeutic intervention development for complex depression, culminating in the publication of a paper outlining the development study.
Links to clinical articles/research papers:
- Havsteen-franklin, D., Oley, M., Sellors, S. J., Eagles, D. (2021) ‘Drawing on Dialogues in Arts-Based Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (ADIT) for Complex Depression: A Complex Intervention Development Study Using the Medical Research Council (UK) Phased Guidance’, Frontiers in Psychology, 12(2), pp. 1–18.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.588661