Adults
Individual therapy for adults at any stage of life — whether you arrive with something specific in mind, or knowing only that something needs attention and not what.
About
I am a creative arts psychotherapist and HCPC-registered dramatherapist, working with adults, children and young people across the UK.
As a creative arts psychotherapist, my practice is grounded in psychodynamic and humanistic frameworks, with a strong emphasis on trauma-informed care. I integrate creative, Jungian, IFS and somatic approaches as well as my training in yoga & mindfulness therapy and EMDR to support clients in accessing healing not just through insight, but through the body and the nervous system. My approach honours the complexity of each person’s story, drawing from depth-oriented frameworks and a relational, compassionate stance.
I offer clinical supervision as part of my practice and recently undertook a year’s training in creative clinical supervision.
I am also currently in training as an Eco-Depth Practitioner, weaving nature-based wisdom and ecological consciousness into the therapeutic space to support deeper connection, integration and transformation.
How I came to this work
I trained as a dramatherapist because I kept meeting people for whom talking alone was not enough. Some had no words yet for what had happened to them. Others had told their story so many times it had gone flat, rehearsed, held at arm’s length. The creative arts therapies offer another route in — through image, metaphor, movement, story and play — and often reach what conversation cannot.
Since qualifying I have worked across a range of settings: with adults, with children in primary and secondary schools, and with young people who were struggling with something they could not yet put into words. That breadth has taught me that there is no single correct way to do this work. What helps one person feel safe enough to begin can feel intrusive to the next.
How I work
I do not arrive with a fixed programme. We begin by finding out what you are hoping for, what has already been tried, and what pace feels manageable. From there I draw on whichever approaches seem to fit — and I will say plainly when I think something else, or someone else, would serve you better.
My training is integrative rather than single-model: psychodynamic and humanistic foundations, Jungian and Internal Family Systems perspectives, somatic and nervous-system work, yoga and mindfulness therapy, EMDR, and now eco-depth practice. What that means for you is that a session can move between talking, noticing what is happening in your body, working with an image or an object, and structured work on a specific memory, depending on what is needed that day.
What stays constant is the relationship. Work that goes below the surface of a problem asks something of you, and it is the quality of the relationship between us — not the technique — that makes that possible.
Training and registration
I hold a BA (Hons) and an MA in Dramatherapy, and I am registered with the Health and Care Professions Council under number AS14736. Registration is a legal requirement to practise as a dramatherapist in the UK, and you can check mine yourself on the HCPC’s public register.
My continuing training includes EMDR, yoga and mindfulness therapy, and a year’s training in creative clinical supervision. I am currently training as an Eco-Depth Practitioner. I hold a full DBS check and work within regular clinical supervision, as required of all registered practitioners.
- Qualifications
- Pippa Ford BA Hons, Dramatherapy MA
- Further training
- EMDR, Yoga & Mindfulness Therapy, Creative Clinical Supervision
- HCPC registration
- no. AS14736
Who I work with
Children and young people
I have years of experience with children of primary and secondary age. Creative approaches are often particularly well suited to young people, who may have no wish to sit and discuss their feelings and no reason to. I hold a full DBS check and can work with schools where that is the most appropriate route.
Practitioners
Clinical supervision for therapists and arts therapists, with particular interest in creative and eco-informed approaches.