Heart Smart Arts

Heart Smart Arts You are loved, unique and brilliant (you may just not believe it yet) ✨
Therapy, client and family advocacy, support
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***WE ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW TEAM MEMBER✨🦋***In all of our current exciting changes, we are also looking for a new Art Ps...
24/07/2026

***WE ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW TEAM MEMBER✨🦋***

In all of our current exciting changes, we are also looking for a new Art Psychotherapist to support us at Ashford primarily. This will be freelance work booked on a client by client basis.

If you know someone who might be interested and could commute to Ashford, please pass on our post! We are very keen to hear from Art Therapists, both newly qualified and with experience.

The HSA Team 💓

***WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY FOR SOME CLAY CREATIONS 🙌🏻✨🦋🌱***Here is a little of what we got up to yesterday at our Home Ed w...
22/07/2026

***WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY FOR SOME CLAY CREATIONS 🙌🏻✨🦋🌱***

Here is a little of what we got up to yesterday at our Home Ed workshop. Firstly nature as inspiration, a chance to explore senses and smells and then back inside to create. We loved how different everyone’s pieces were!

Here is some of what the parents told us in our feedback about what they enjoyed:
“Creative fun with beautiful smells. It was a lovely calm activity.”

And:

The “combination of fragrance of the flowers and the clay which I have not experienced before. Fab!”

Next workshops coming in the Autumn 🍁

21/07/2026

***WE ARE SO EXCITED TO BE DOING OUR FIRST HOME ED WORKSHOP TODAY!***

Gemma & Lydia have been busy setting up for our Clay Creations workshop in collaboration with this morning.

This one is in Woodchurch at the Annexe. We are fully booked for today but we’ll be sharing more workshops soon! ✨

*** ARE YOU LOOKING FOR TRAINING OR INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKING FOR YOUR EVENT OR TEAM?***Yesterday, I returned to Sandwich T...
16/07/2026

*** ARE YOU LOOKING FOR TRAINING OR INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKING FOR YOUR EVENT OR TEAM?***

Yesterday, I returned to Sandwich Tech School to deliver an interactive talk to their school leavers. This was to prepare them as they head off into the big wide world after school, a huge transition!

I can’t quite believe this is my 7th year of delivering this talk. It’s a great privilege for me to speak to young people as such a critical stage 🌱

So if you, your team, your school are looking for something in particular in terms of training or speaking do get in touch. This was a bespoke talk which I created for STS and it’s something I really enjoy doing alongside therapy.

Harriet ✨🦋

***NEW WORKSHOP, HOORAY!***🎉Please email info@themildredtrust.org to bookAs promised, here’s the details of our next fre...
09/07/2026

***NEW WORKSHOP, HOORAY!***

🎉Please email [email protected] to book

As promised, here’s the details of our next free workshop coming to Woodchurch on July 21st. This is a workshop for homeschoolers and their families. It will be run by Gemma and Lydia. We can’t wait to meet you all! 💖

***EXCITING NEWS! HOME ED WORKSHOP COMING🙌***As promised, we have been working hard behind the scenes to start organisin...
08/07/2026

***EXCITING NEWS! HOME ED WORKSHOP COMING🙌***

As promised, we have been working hard behind the scenes to start organising the workshops we have been fundraising for. First up is a Home Ed workshop coming later this month. We'll share all the details very soon so keep your eyes on our socials for more details.

The HSA Team ✨

***HOW DO I KNOW IF I NEED THERAPY?***Maybe there hasn’t been a great loss or a significant trauma but perhaps a feeling...
29/06/2026

***HOW DO I KNOW IF I NEED THERAPY?***

Maybe there hasn’t been a great loss or a significant trauma but perhaps a feeling of checking out for as long as you remember…

Maybe you feel like you’re going round and round in circles. You just get ahead and then something brings you right back to square one…

Maybe you decide this is what you want, what you’re going to do and then, at the last moment, you stick to the familiar thing and don’t do what you wanted….

There are lots of reasons to come to therapy. These ones might surprise you. You don’t need to be in crisis to come for therapy. In fact, we actively encourage you to come to us before that point. You can come to therapy because things feel off, you’re struggling with your life at home when before it was good or because you aren’t where you wanted to be by now.

Therapy is very personal. The most important thing is that you find a therapist you can trust and open up to. And then give yourself the opportunity to be honest with yourself about how things really are. Seeing yourself honestly is a powerful place to then bring in some change. But it takes bravery. And you don’t have to do it alone. We’re here to help you with exactly this and support you with this journey.

We with with adults and children for therapy and we have a small number of spaces currently at Ashford and Rye. Get in touch if you’d like to know more ✨

16/06/2026

***TODAY I STARTED PREPPING SOME OF MY CLIENTS FOR THEIR SUMMER BREAK…☀️***

… which seems to have come around very fast! For private schools we are just a few weeks away and for mainstream only just over a month away.

I think it can feel as if time speeds up in the summer. Even though we have all this extra daylight (and potentially some more energy because of this), somehow we cram more in.

This is a gentle reminder that it’s ok to go slow at midsummer too! We’ll be at Summer solstice this coming weekend, the high point of the year. The perfect opportunity to slow down, celebrate and savour and BE PRESENT.

Be present with yourself, your loved ones, nature. Just be in it.

Put down the distractions, don’t check your phone, your emails, just be here. It all goes so fast, just take some minutes to drink it all in.

Your emails will still be there on Monday.

Enjoy the sunshine this week. And stay safe, don’t forget your sunscreen ☀️

The HSA team✨

10/06/2026

***WE ARE LEAVING RCC, OUR FIRST HOME ***

Rye Creative Centre was where it all began back in 2020 ✨. I (Harriet) knew when I took it on that it would one day be used for housing development. And that day is coming closer.

The new space designed for the artists working here isn’t quite right for us so we’ve had to be creative (of course!) about finding a new space. But we’ve done it!

We are very excited to tell you more about it which we will soon. But we have a lot to do to get it ready. And we also really need your help!

We will be fundraising to make some changes to the brilliant space we’ve found to make it just right for our clients. And we’re taking you along for the journey. We need to be in by September so we’ll keep you posted as we move along this process over the next few months.

Our fundraising page will be up soon! But in the mean time we would love for you to like and share our post to start getting the word out. We’re also looking for and working with local tradespeople to get this work done so feel free to shout out any local tradies below.

Thanks for your support! ✨

Harriet and the team 💖

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