22/08/2026
September’s Q+A is on creativity and mental health, and it is the one we have had the most quiet questions about.
Reena Clare is an Art Psychotherapist at The Mind Faculty. She holds a Master’s in Art Psychotherapy from the University of Hertfordshire, and in London she worked across the NHS, Westminster Arts, Kids Company and The European Reminiscence Network, using image and play with children and adults living with trauma, grief, dementia and addiction. She has worked with clients of varying ages and art experience.
Most people first hear about art therapy in the context of a child, and that is usually where it stops. It is a trained mental health profession, and a great deal of the work is with adults. Some come to it alongside talk therapy, some when a feeling is hard to put into words, and some because they would like another way into something they have been carrying a long time.
Much of that work is with grief, loss and trauma, which are not always available to us as a story. People describe them as blank, or as stuck, or as “I know it happened, I just cannot get to it.” That is where making something can help: an image can hold what is hard to articulate, at a workable distance, with edges, and it can be put down again afterwards. That is what Reena means on slide two.
Trauma-focused care is hard to find in Kuala Lumpur. If you have been looking, for yourself or for someone you love, this is forty-five free minutes with a clinician who does it.
You do not need to be able to draw. Nobody will ask you to relive anything, and you will not be asked to make anything on the night.
Tuesday 8 September, 7:00 to 7:45PM MYT. Free, online, 45 minutes. Camera and microphone off, questions typed anonymously, and we do not record it. Link in bio to reserve a place.
