Creative responding is at the heart of pluralistic practice – the work with each client is unique, and at its best happens in response to that client, with that therapist at that time.
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Ani is a psychotherapist, creative arts counsellor and supervisor who brings a person-centred and pluralistic philosophy to her work. She is passionate about creative approaches to therapy and training. She has over twenty years’ experience working with children, young people, adults and groups. Her experience includes working in schools, drug treatment programmes, probation services, offender programmes, EAP for Essex Police and Essex Fire Services, and she currently has a small private practice.
Ani is the founder of the Association for Person Centred Creative Arts where she is course director, and is also a senior lecturer at the University of East London. Ani has worked on several projects for the BACP and is an Executive Member of the Private Practice Division. Her research interests include creative arts in therapy, digital media in therapy and pluralistic practice.
The Pluralistic Therapy Primer (PCCS Books 2021)
What Works in Counselling and Psychotherapy Relationships (BACP 2020)
The Handbook of Counselling Children and Young People (Sage, 2018)
Annie Garrigan is a Pluralistic Counsellor working at UHI Perth and with ESA Scotland. As an advocate of anti-oppressive practice, she has a keen interest on issues of race and intersectionality. Through recent exploration, she regained her passion for painting which was transformative and empowering. She now brings the practice of working therapeutically and collaboratively with creative arts to her support groups and clients.
Fleur Farish-Edwards is an experienced counsellor and supervisor, and along with her wife, facilitates creative workshops as “Two Birds Therapy”. Fleur is also a university lecturer in counselling and is currently working on a professional doctorate, researching the life-long impact of adoption on adult adoptees. Fleur works creatively and collaboratively with clients, supervisees and students, and holds person-centred and pluralistic practice at the heart of everything she does.
