Harlington Hospice has seen a sharp increase in the need for our Children’s and Adolescent Bereavement Service (CABS) in the last 12 months. The team of art therapists have been working with a group of clients to create a ‘life boat’.
This origami boat is used in art therapy to help them navigate through the river of life, helping them to reach key milestones and reflection points. Art Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses art materials to help express feelings that are often too difficult to put into words. It is a three-way process between the client, their artwork, and the therapist. Art making in the sessions often helps children and young people discuss their feelings with the art therapist, and it can help shift perspectives and understand difficult feelings and behaviours with more clarity.
Recently our team of art therapists also got to highlight the importance of this service when a film crew from BBC Blue Peter came down to talk to some of our clients. The crew came to the hospice to film an episode in partnerships with BBC Children in Need showing how we use the funding we receive and the difference we are making to children in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
