Adele Nixon

I am an Integrative Child and Adolescent Creative Counsellor as well as an Advanced Drawing and Talking Practitioner. I specialise in working creatively with children who have experienced trauma and anxiety. I am passionate about supporting children to heal and making a difference to their mental health and wellbeing. Having worked in a variety of schools supporting children with the social and emotional needs, I believe healing through relationship and connection to be key. I am a warm and empathetic person and able to provide a calm, safe environment to hold and support children’s emotional pain.

Your Calm Space offers a quiet safe space to work through emotions, anxieties and trauma using a range of creative therapeutic practices. Child counselling provides a safe and supportive environment where children can express their thoughts, feelings, and concerns, and enable them to make sense of their feelings. We do this together by exploring different arts forms such as music and dance, sandtray, paints, puppets, clay and drawings and of course through play.  My work is very much an integration of theory, art and science. Attachment theory, neuroscience and the healing power of the arts informs and underpins my approach.

All sessions are confidential, which is important in enabling the child to feel safe enough to express themselves honestly. It is important to me to work collaboratively with parents and teachers, and this will involve keeping in touch regularly. A warm, trusting relationship with the child or young person is at the heart of all I do. I aim to provide a space where the child is free to explore what it is like being them.