Andrew Phillips
Psychotherapist & Artist
My work begins where inner life meets the wider world, through psychotherapy and images that attend to landscape as a living presence.
As an HCPC-registered Art Psychotherapist, 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. As an artist, I make paintings and drawings shaped by reverence and encounters with the Numinous.
Psychotherapy
Online therapy for a more fully inhabited life
Sometimes life begins to raise questions that cannot be answered by continuing in quite the same way. What once seemed settled may no longer feel sufficient, or something important may be asking for attention before it can be clearly named.
I offer online psychotherapy in which 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 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.
As an HCPC-registered Art Psychotherapist, I engage with both verbal and image-based forms of expression. Sessions may take place through 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.
I offer weekly and fortnightly psychotherapy, 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.
I also offer reflective conversations for artists and creative professionals who want to think more deeply about their practice, vocation, or the place creativity holds within their life.
This aspect of my practice is continuing to develop. You are welcome to contact me if you would like to explore whether it might be relevant to you.