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City Solace Psychotherapy has a warm, client-led, and integrative approach tailored to your needs. Offering Art Psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems therapy. Sessions can be primarily talking-based, art-based, or a blend. Themes can be used to guide therapy, or sessions can flow naturally based on what is most helpful.
Therapeutic Approach
Firstly what is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy is a powerful process that explores how early life experiences shape who we are. It looks beneath presenting problems, connecting the conscious and unconscious mind. By understanding these patterns, you can process difficult experiences, break unhelpful habits, and build new ways of living, all within a safe, trusting, and supportive therapeutic relationship.
Art Psychotherapy is not about being “good at” creating, it’s a therapeutic medium where no artistic skill is needed. It can help clients externalise internal experiences, explore patterns, and gradually process trauma in a non-verbal reliant, embodied way. Combined with talking therapy, it allows for deep emotional processing and healing that supports attachment repair and personal growth.
What is Art Psychotherapy?
What are the benefits?
Access and process buried emotions – Safely uncover and work through feelings connected to past trauma or early attachment difficulties.
Understand and organise experiences – Use creative expression to map memories, see patterns, and make sense of difficult experiences.
Improve self-regulation – Through slowing down and connecting with the body to improve emotional stability.
Express unmet needs safely – Give form to internal conflicts or unspoken experiences, building self-compassion and clarity.
Strengthen relationships – By understanding patterns, processing fractures and repairing patterns shaped by early attachment.
Gain empowerment and personal agency – By taking control of experiences, make choices, and improve confidence.
What is Internal Family Systems Therapy?
IFS is based on the idea that we are made up of different parts, rather than being a single, uniform personality. Some parts may hold pain whilst others hold protective or soothing roles. These parts form in response to emotional or relational injury, trauma or attachment difficulties. IFS helps clients understand and relate to these parts from a compassionate, central Self, fostering healing and reparation.
What are the benefits?
Recognise and understand your parts – Identify the different inner parts and the roles they play in coping with trauma or attachment wounds.
Develop self-compassion – Build a caring, non-judgmental relationship with parts that may feel ashamed, fearful, or protective.
Heal attachment wounds – Gently unburden parts holding pain from early relational or developmental trauma.
Reduce inner conflict – Create harmony between parts that hold opposing feelings, needs, or beliefs.
Connect with your core Self – Strengthen access to your calm, confident, and compassionate centre, fostering inner safety and trust.
Enhance relationships – Develop more secure, authentic connections with others.