Amanda Morrison Email & Phone Number

Kirkcaldy, Scotland, United Kingdom

Supporting children and families through therapeutic intervention in this amazing community-based centre. Great to be part of such a highly skilled and dedicated team who take a holistic approach to mental wellbeing.

London, United Kingdom

I am not currently offering any private sessions

Longfield, Kent

Employed on a part-time, freelance basis to work at school for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. The model was for long term therapy, focusing on children in foster care across a range of ages, from seven to seventeen. Liaison with other professionals and with foster carers and residential facilities.

Visiting Lecturer facilitating Reflective Practice and Experiential groups with first year students

Maidstone, United Kingdom

Just joined this fantastic service for an initial six months, supporting children and young people who have been affected by sexual abuse, as well as their families, schools and carers. In the end I remained for a year and a half. It was a privilege to be part of this highly-skilled and talented team.

I worked at Off Centre as Senior Art Therapist, heading up a small but dynamic creative therapies department. In the time I was there, art therapy became and integral part of the clinical service. The main focus of my role was clinical work, conducting assessments and seeing individual clients for weekly art therapy. The complex nature of the clinical work meant that I was required to do a lot of liaison with other professionals, attend external meetings and so on. In addition I line managed and supervised staff and students on placement. I was also instrumental in getting innovative projects off the ground e.g. working in parallel with a photo journalist and an art therapist/animator with young people who attended the service.As one of the management team, I was involved in more strategic thinking, and decision making on policies and procedures as well as managing the uncertainties caused by a difficult funding climate.

Woking

Set up and ran a weekly open art therapy group for day service users. This involved informal assessment and one to one discussions about what the group would entail. Feedback was positive, and funding for the pilot group extended for a further six months. Sadly funding problems meant that after a year the group had to end.

London, United Kingdom

I worked on the Post Graduate Diploma in Group Psychotherapy as liaison between the university, visiting tutors, teaching staff and students.

(London) Derry

This charity (now no longer in existence) was dedicated to the provision of art therapy for children who had suffered trauma and loss. Included outreach work in local schools, working with parents and children on attachment and running a group for pre-school children.

Msc In Art Therapy, Art Therapy With Bereaved Children, Distinction

I worked for just under a year in (London) Derry in Northern Ireland. My client group were young children of primary school age, many.

Post Graduate Diploma In Art Therapy, Art Therapy In Palliative Care, Distinction

Placements with Maggie's Centre in Edinburgh, and the Marie Curie Hospice in Glasgow informed my research into the effectiveness of art.

Diploma In Fine Art, Drawing And Painting