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THE ARTIST WELLBEING TEAM
Care. Creativity. Expertise.
Here you can find out more about us as individual practitioners - our qualifications, experience, backgrounds, locations and passions. If there's anyone who'd particularly like to work with, let us know when you get in touch and we'll do our best to match you up.
Lou Platt
Dramatherapist
Internal Family Systems Therapist
EMDR Therapist
Clinical Supervisor
Actor, Writer and Theatre Devisor
Location:
Birmingham UK
Online
Lou is a Dramatherapist, an Internal Family Systems Therapist, EMDR Therapist, a Clinical Supervisor and has lived experience of being a performer in the theatre industry. She has worked in various mental health settings and private practice for over 20 years.
She is the founder and director of The Artist Wellbeing Company and began supporting the mental health of those working in creative industries in 2012. Since then she has worked with various individuals and production companies in theatre, dance, TV and Film, providing individual on-call therapeutic sessions as well as team workshops and process supervision.
Lou believes in not only supporting the individual but also developing processes and structures that aim to centralise the wellbeing of those who make the art happen. She is dynamic and compassionate in her approach to wellbeing within the arts, and hopes to create new practices that are ethical, equitable, sustainable and enjoyable.
Noelle Adames
Dramatherapist
Clinical Supervisor
Marriage and Family Therapist
Actor in Theatre, TV & Film
Location:
London UK
Online
Noelle approaches her work from a wide-ranging background as a Dramatherapist, Professional Actress, Marriage and Family Therapist, and Artist Educator. Through her 20+ years of working in therapy and the arts, she brings an understanding of the important role that play and creativity hold in forming a healthy, balanced and happy individual or group. She combines her years of experiential and educational lives to work with folk in discovering, growing and healing through the creative arts. Understanding the complexities of creating and being creative, Noelle works with artists to develop a safe and open space to explore and develop their work and themselves. Noelle is an HCPC qualified dramatherapist. She holds an MA in Drama and Movement Therapy from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, an MEd in Counselling from George Mason University and is a CAST trained clinical supervisor.
Eshmit Kaur
Dramatherapist
Reflective Process Practitioner
Performer & Creative Facilitator
Location:
Birmingham UK
Online
Eshmit is an Initiated Sikh, a Dramatherapist (MA, HCPC, BADth), Performer and Creative Facilitator. Having trained as an Actor (ALRA, BA Hons), Eshmit became interested in the relationship between the arts and emotional wellbeing, the act of Serving others and art-making and performance offering a transpersonal experience. This led Eshmit to undertaking Dramatherapy training and working with people with various needs since then.
Eshmit's clinical experience includes working with children and young people facing issues such anxiety, self-harm, disordered eating, managing neurodiversity and sexualised behaviour. Specialising in Complex and Attachment Trauma, she has worked in Tiers 2-4 in NHS CAMH Services, a therapeutic school and currently with private fostering agencies and a care-provider offering consultation and training to residential children’s home to help manage the complex needs of developmentally traumatised young people. She also runs her own private therapy practice, EK Therapy, which aims to reduce barriers of access for individuals and communities that have experienced institutional and systemic issues within mainstream services.
She is actively involved in grassroots projects within the Sikh Community and helping young people to thrive on a spiritual and temporal level.
Emma Hagen
Psychodrama-psychotherapist
Clinical Supervisor
Person Centred Counsellor
Location:
Glasgow UK
Online
Emma is a psychodrama psychotherapist, person-centred counsellor, clinical supervisor, senior trainer and co-founder of Psychodrama Scotland. Emma has worked as a drama artist, director, and project manager for over two decades with various theatre companies and organisations including Citizens Theatre, Tron Theatre, Scottish Opera, 7:84 Theatre Company, Visible Fictions, Borderline, Toonspeak, Birds of Paradise, Urbancroft and Solar Bear. Her inside knowledge and experience of creative industries, alongside her established clinical experience makes Emma a grounded and informed artist wellbeing practitioner.
She specialises in working with marginalised group with diverse needs. Over the course of her career, Emma has established and facilitated a range of projects within the creative industries, combining her skills, knowledge, and experience to create unique and dynamic projects within drama, theatre, and film, with a range of therapeutic, educational, and creative outcomes. Emma is passionate about offering safe and containing experiences, built on a relationship that is authentic, transparent, and congruent.
Tricia Gannon
Location:
London UK
Online
Dramatherapist
Clinical Supervisor
Actor
Tricia has over 10 years experience of being a HCPC qualified Drama & Movement Therapist, and is also a clinical creative arts Supervisor having gained her qualification from CAST in 2022.
Prior to her life as a psychotherapist, Tricia has worked as an actor for over 20 years with companies such as the Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, on both classical plays and new writing. She has worked many times in film and long running TV dramas, as well as directing in Theatre In Education. These experiences have given her a strong understanding or rehearsal rooms, film and TV sets and fostered a desire to be part of making these spaces safe, creative and inclusive.
Since becoming a Dramatherapist she has worked in mainstream and special educational settings, with a particular interest in neurodiversity.
Supervision has meant working with leadership and staff in education as well as parent groups and bereavement in school for children with life-limiting illnesses. She also supervises psychotherapy students who have clients in the creative industries.
Tricia can offer creatives and productions both individual and team support.
Lucy Steggals
Location:
London UK
Online
Integrative Arts Psychotherapist
Reflective Practice Practitioner
Artist and Facilitator
Lucy is a London based integrative art psychotherapist, visual artist and
creative facilitator with over 20 years’ experience working across the arts. Lucy works
therapeutically 1:1 and with groups to co–create safe, confidential, non-judgemental spaces to hold curiosity and support reflection. She has a compassionate, in-the-moment approach that’s focused on exploring thoughts and feelings as they arise, taking into consideration how past life experiences might shape present emotional struggles.
Lucy has worked in a youth charity, NHS acute mental health, Home Start in supporting families, Likewise in working with vulnerable adults and The Centre For Better Health in providing a low cost therapy service. She also works in private practice.
Lucy’s background working in social engaged arts practice collaborating with diverse groups has led her to develop a passion for facilitating reflective and supportive spaces for creative practitioners. She has previously collaborated with partners including Cubitt Gallery,Camden Arts Centre, Towner Art Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Turner Contemporary, Whitechapel Gallery, Royal Opera House, Kettles Yard, National Portrait Gallery, Gasworks, V&A, Tate and Wysing Arts Centre.
Bel Sherlock
Location:
London UK
Online
Creative & Embodied Therapist
Clinical Supervisor & Reflective Practitioner
Critical Incident/Crisis Debrief Facilitator
Performer & Creative Facilitator
Bel is a Creative & Embodied Therapist, combining Dramatherapy with Integrative Embodied Psychotherapy, a Creative Clinical Supervisor, a Creative Facilitator and certified Crisis Debrief Facilitator. She is also a performer and a practitioner of Playback Theatre, which uses improvisation, music and storytelling for community building, reflection and celebration. Bel specialises in creative, therapeutic facilitation and wellbeing consultation with community-based and humanitarian arts organisations, and with teams working with marginalised groups. Her practice is trauma-responsive, anti-oppressive, welcoming of neuro-divergent souls, and holds awareness of the more than human world.
Bel has extensive experience as a therapist, reflective practitioner and facilitator in the NHS, forensic mental health, community settings and in the arts. She has her own private therapy and supervision practice through Playful Wellbeing and - alongside her work with Artist Wellbeing - runs Her Mighty Pen, a collective empowering system-affected women and non-binary people to tell the stories important to them. She also co-runs London Playback Theatre, delivering workshops, training and performances in this unique form of spontaneous theatre.
Anne-Marie Reid
Location:
London UK
Online
Systemic Psychotherapist
Creative Arts Practitioner
Supervisor & Reflective Practice Facilitator & Consultant
Anne-Marie is a Systemic Individual, Couples & Family Psychotherapist, creative arts practitioner, consult and supervisor with over 20 years experience across therapeutic, educational, community and creative settings. A former Dancer, Stage Manager and Arts Project Manager, she has first hand experience of the highs and lows of working in creative industries.
Her work spans NHS CAMHS, including co-parent couples clinics and parental mental health pathway, schools, fostering and adoption services, LAMDA and Open Doors. She has also led youth arts organisations for young people and families as a Programme Director and Clinical Advisor.
Anne-Marie draws on systemic, narrative, attachment, creative arts, intersectional and liberation psychology approaches to inform her dynamic practionership. She also can offer supervision, consultation, reflective practice and training on anti-oppressive practice, unconscious bias and social justice, and is a tutor at IATE.
She's warm, curious and collaborative and supports creativity, agency, relationship and wellbeing in those she works with.
Abigail Nelson
Location:
Edinburgh UK
Online
Dramatherapist
Creative Wellbeing Facilitator
Performer in Theatre, TV & Circus Arts
Abigail arrived at a career in dramatherapy following a lifelong passion for the arts and it's ability to transform at both an individual and collective level. Having experienced this transformation as a performer, audience member, drama teacher, director, dramatherapy client, artist, creative wellbeing facilitator, consultant, researcher, and in her current private dramatherapy practice, she has an ensemble of lived experiences to draw on in her work as an artist wellbeing practitioner.
Through a playful, curious and affirming space, Abigail provides the creative tools for individuals and teams to overcome creative blocks, find their authentic voice, and find ownership of their story. She believes that health, wellbeing and growth are inseparable from the capacity for play and creative expression. We cannot have one without the other.
Abigail is a Dramatherapist, and has a BA in Drama from Kingston University and MSc in Psychology from Stirling University.
Alice Nicholas
Location:
Bristol UK
Online
Dramatherapist
Creative Clinical Supervisor
Playback Theatre Practitioner
Alice is a Dramatherapist, Writer, Creative Clinical Supervisor and Playback theatre performer based in Bristol, the South West and Wales, she holds training in Applied Theatre, Dramatherapy and Creative Arts Supervision from RCSSD and Roehampton. Alice has worked in the professional theatre industry for over 20 years as a playwright, director, applied theatre practitioner and now as a production dramatherapist. Alice seeks to offer a warm, person-centred, anti-oppressive and intersectional approach to everything that she does and believes the creative arts and theatre have the power to heal (both artist and witness). As a mother, Alice is passionate about parents and mothers being visible and supported to continue their profession in the arts and making the industry more accessible. Alice runs a private therapy and supervision practice and is an Associate Therapist for BAPAM.
Alice’s recent theatre credits include; The Beautiful Future is Coming (2025), Bristol Old Vic; Blinded by Your Grace (2025 in development), Bristol Old Vic; Sitting in the Grey (2023), Beyond Face; Dance Nation (2023) Bristol School of Acting. Alice is currently working on LANNY (2026), Bristol Old Vic and Wonder Baby (2026), Travelling Light Theatre Company.
Brenna Baker
Location:
Manchester UK
Online
Dramatherapist
Creative Arts Supervisor
Background in Acting & Scenography
Brenna is an experience Drama & Movement Therapist and Creative Arts Supervisor. Her strong roots in personal creative practice plus a background in acting and scenography further inform her practice, resulting in her being an industry informed and dynamic artist wellbeing practitioner.
Brenna's approach to creative industry care interweaves cognitive, somatic and creative explorations, inviting the whole of a practitioner's practice and approach into the work.
As a therapist, Brenna has worked across a range of settings such as children's centres, mainstream and SEN schools, bereavement support, Adoption support, medicolegal neuro-rehabilitation, NHS inpatient and outpatient services, supported living, helplines, crisis intervention and private practice.
She is confident in facilitating groups, as well as individuals, creating conditions that are inclusive to those from diverse backgrounds. Committed to ethical and anti-oppressive practice, her work is client led, trauma and attachment informed and values empowering both individual and collective's agency and voice.
Kate Stevens
Location:
Inverness UK
Online
Dramatherapist
Support & Wellbeing Facilitator
Writer, Director, Actor & Arts Practitioner
Kate is a Dramatherapist, holding a MSc in Dramatherapy from Queen Margaret University. As an arts practitioner, Kate became aware and curious of the role of ‘healer’ within both professional and amateur creative communities, and personally experienced the impact of this omitted role, on her connection with her artist self and the work she shared. This is the very foundation of what led her to becoming the ‘healer’ she had missed in these communities by undertaking Dramatherapy training.
Kate’s clinical practice is inclusive, trauma-specific, and person-centred, working in arts spaces, inpatient settings, and as a team lead within a Rape Crisis setting with survivors of sexual violence. She also holds her own private therapy practice, specialising in identity and trauma, with the aim of providing a safe and creative space to explore and express your inner world, whatever your background or experience. Kate believes whole-heartedly that accessing our inner child, and remaining curious and playful in our approach to mental health can deepen self-expression, insight and knowledge of how we want to exist in relation to ourselves and others.
WANT TO JOIN US?
Do you have a qualification in counselling, psychotherapy or an arts therapy (drama, dance, music, art)?
Do you have at least 2 year post-qualification experience of working in Private Practice?
Do you have lived experience of working in a creative industry?
Do you either have a qualification in Clinical Supervision or have experience of facilitating Reflective Practice?
If you answer "YES!" to all of the above - maybe you could be the next practitioner our team is waiting for!
Send an email to hello@atistwellbeing.co.uk including
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A Letter of Interest that details why you want to work for TAWC and what you believe you can bring to the role
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Your current and up-to-date CV
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Any questions you have about joining the team