Belong delivers Creative Psychotherapy to perpetrators and victims of crime, in custodial and community settings.

Through group and one-to-one psychotherapy interventions, participants are supported to use verbal and non-verbal tools to process experiences of trauma; improve communication and conflict resolution skills; improve their mental and emotional wellbeing; learn to express and manage difficult thoughts and feelings.

To see some of the powerful artwork created during creative psychotherapy sessions, click here. Thank you so much to the service users who consented to us sharing their work with you!

By enabling participants to make progress in these areas, arts-based psychotherapies tackle the root causes of offending behavior and maximise participants ability to live crime free lives. 

About Me-Time

Through Me-Time, people on probation in the East of England probation region can access short-term emotional wellbeing support and medium-term psychotherapeutic support. The support is open to people of all genders, and can be accessed on line or in person.

Jermaine’s Story

On referral to the Me-Time psychotherapy programme, Jermaine said he’d never taken part in psychotherapy before. We discussed his preconceptions of therapy and the limited access there is to mental health support in the community. Jermaine stated he had never spoken about his feelings and saw the benefits of sharing his burdens and emotions with someone non-biased and non-judgemental.

During the therapy sessions he reflected on his racially traumatic experiences at school and how those experiences still affected him. He worked through difficult feelings about the impact on him of the media’s negative representation of Black men and boys. I offered containing and supportive creative activities during the process where Jermaine further explored themes of identity, belonging, heritage, family, positive/negative role models and experiences of being marginalised individually, societally, institutionally.

To find out how to refer someone for therapy, click here.