Avery Rabbitt
Creative Arts Therapist
MA HCPC BADth
About
I'm a Wales-based creative arts therapist currently accepting clients for virtual sessions. I use talk therapy (analysis), play, storytelling, and mindfulness modalities in sessions.
I hope to help clients unwind and release, even if for a moment, the tensions they carry. Whether it's 1:1 or in a group, I offer opportunities for clients to practice approaching life with increased creativity and a sense of play.
I'm especially passionate about working within LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse communities— as well as folks who've experienced religious trauma. Together, we can cultivate a therapeutic space where marked and/or masking folks can rest and explore at whatever pace suits them.
Some nerdy stuff: Liberatory frameworks like disability activist/artist Petra Kuppers' eco soma, philosopher/biologist Donna Haraway's multi-species feminism, and post-Jungian depth psychology inform my approach. The arts were healing ground for thousands of years before therapy traditions existed as they do today; I aim to honor that ground in therapy and expand the role of therapy beyond often harmful paradigms.
Please feel free to reach out below via the contact form! I'd love to meet you.
Qualifications:
MA Drama and Movement Therapy from The Central School of Speech and Drama
Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Member of The British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth)
200-hr. YTT Certification in Ashtanga Yoga from Tattvaa Yogashala Rishikesh
Insurance:
I am covered by Holistic Insurance (member no. HIS105985) for Malpractice/Professional Liability, Public Liability and Products Liability
Employed by The Terrestrial Collective
Services
Consultation
free | 15-minute virtual call to see if we're a good fit
Therapy for Individuals
sliding scale | 50-minute virtual sessions
Group Sessions
please contact me for details
Publications
Avery Rabbitt Independent Researcher Slumgullion: A Long-Distance Hiker's Questions About Landscapes in Drama Therapeutic Relationality Published in Drama Therapy Review, Volume 10, Issue Disability, Chronic Illness and Debility Justice in Drama Therapy: Global- Political Perspectives, Apr 2024, p. 39 - 62 Abstract I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2016. In this episodic essay, I offer descriptions of personal encounters to contemplate specific lands and drama therapeutic landscapes. I am taking curious, meandering footsteps towards a neuroqueer, post-human ecological drama therapy praxis. Sesame drama therapy often relies on imagination to offer itself to the conscious world, but ecosomatic experience can offer a ‘co-construct[ed]’ subjectivity, reframing Merleau-Ponty’s ‘flesh’ as a ‘relation of reversibility’ between ‘the seer and the seen’, the external and the internal – an ecological dynamic in which several liberatory frameworks take root.
If You wish me to leap joyfully,
Let me see You dance and sing—
Then I will leap into Love—
And from Love into Knowledge,
And from Knowledge into the Harvest,
That sweetest Fruit beyond human sense.
There I will stay with You, whirling.
Mechthilde von Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead