Course Content
Organisation
A person centred pluralistic ethos
Our approach based on understanding that creativity is crucial. It promotes empathy, non-directivity, and self expression, self-understanding and of course creativity. It can be used with adults, children, couples, and groups.
Person-centred creative arts therapy models were first developed around 50 years ago, and are an effective, powerful and a deeply transformative therapeutic approach. Our pluralistic perspective also places the client at the heart of therapy, and our approach draws on a range of concepts to collaboratively work with clients to support the therapeutic creative process.
Presenter
Ani de la Prida is a psychotherapist, creative arts counsellor, supervisor and author who brings a person-centred, pluralistic approach to her work and a passion for working with creative arts in therapy. Ani has over 20 years’ experience working with groups, adults, children, and young people in a wide range of settings and as a person-centred counselling trainer.
Ani was a senior lecturer at the University of East London for several years, where she also did her master’s research on the use of digital media in therapy. Ani now teaches and delivers workshops at various colleges and universities and at APCCA Training where she delivers courses in the therapeutic use of creative arts with a dedicated international team of trainers.
Ani is the founder and director of the Association for Person Centred Creative Arts (APCCA) and editor of the APCCA journal The Art of Insight and since recently relocating to Spain, maintains a small private practice of clients and supervisees.
Recent publications include chapters on Person-Centred Creative Arts Therapies in The Tribes of the Person-Centred Nation (2024), and in The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (2024) and a chapter on demedicalised counselling and psychotherapy with children and young people in People not Pathology: freeing therapy from the medical model (2023).
Ani is co-author of The Pluralistic Therapy Primer (2023) and is currently writing Person-Centred Experiential Art Therapy: A contemporary pluralistic person-centred approach for counselling, psychotherapy and art therapy (due 2026).
