Andrew Phillips
Psychotherapist & Artist
My work takes two distinct forms: psychotherapy, and art shaped by landscape, reverence and encounters with the Numinous.
As a Psychotherapist, I work online with adults across the UK. As an artist, I make paintings and drawings which explore the meeting of inner and outer worlds.
Psychotherapy
Online therapy for a more fully inhabited life
As an HCPC-registered Art Psychotherapist based in Newport, South Wales, I offer depth-oriented online therapy to adults across the UK, with particular interest in how a life might be lived with purpose and vision.
Change does not have to be decided in advance. We can remain curious about what is emerging and what may need to be relinquished, while considering what matters enough to shape the way you live.
My approach is grounded in depth psychology and offered as a soul-oriented psychotherapy. It attends not only to distress, but to the wider meaning of your experience and the life you may be trying to discover or create.
Our sessions may include conversation, image-making, or a movement between the two, depending on what feels most helpful and appropriate. There is no expectation that you use art materials, and no artistic experience is required.
Weekly and fortnightly psychotherapy are available, alongside monthly consultations. Many people drawn to this approach are seeking open-ended, exploratory therapy in which understanding can develop over time.
This way of working may also speak particularly to artists and creatives, and to people for whom spirituality, the natural world, or imagination holds an important place.
👉 You can visit the psychotherapy pages to learn more about working together and making an enquiry.
Working across drawing and painting, I approach landscape as a living presence and a way of giving form to experiences that are not always easily named. Mountain forms emerge through changing weather and atmosphere, carrying a sense of mystery and an encounter with something beyond the immediately visible.
The images are not usually depictions of particular places. They develop through close attention to the natural world, while also drawing upon memory and imagination. Through them, I explore how landscape can become a place of relation, where inner experience meets something larger than the individual self.
My art and psychotherapy are distinct practices, although both are shaped by an interest in the relationship between inner life and the wider world. I am an elected Professional Member of the Scottish Society of Artists, and have exhibited with the Royal Scottish Academy, Royal West of England Academy, Visual Arts Scotland, and the SSA.
The Ancient Inn
Reflective conversations for artists
The Ancient Inn is a collaborative online space that Dean Melbourne and I have created for conversations around creative work, purpose and the inner life.