About

Creative Arts Counselling with Kara Coyle 

At Art Haven, I offer a supportive and nurturing space where creativity becomes a gentle and powerful means of self-expression and understanding. Whether you’re attending a 1:1 creative arts counselling session or a group workshop, the focus is on the process, rather than the end result, though the outcomes are often profoundly meaningful.

Some clients come with a clear issue to work through; others arrive with a quieter sense that something isn’t quite right and want space for deeper reflection. My approach weaves together counselling and creative exploration, seeing symptoms, patterns, and emotional struggles not as problems to be fixed, but as meaningful messages from the client’s deepest self, pointing towards what may need care, understanding, or change. Working creatively offers a unique way to explore what words alone sometimes can’t reach.

You don’t need to be an artist. There is no right or wrong way to create, the process itself is what truly matters. My role is to ensure that you feel fully seen, supported, and empowered to engage with the therapeutic process at your own pace.

Creative Arts Counselling can lead to truly transformative outcomes; among them a sense of release, clarity, and deep relaxation. Many clients speak of leaving sessions feeling lighter, more grounded, and more connected to themselves, often taking away new insight, understanding, and tools to better manage life’s challenges with greater confidence, resilience, and self-compassion. This inevitably has a ripple effect on personal relationships and experience of the wider world.

I am in the final throws of 4-years of training at Tobias School of Art, where I will gain a Masters level (MCGI) in Transpersonal Creative Arts Counselling. I hold a Creative BA (Hons) from Central Saint Martins, London. I practise in accordance with the BACP ethical framework. My experience encompasses working across therapeutic, creative, and charitable settings, supporting adults experiencing challenges such as anxiety and depression, grief, menopause, neurodivergence including ADHD, AuDHD, and Autism (diagnosed and undiagnosed), mental health, relationship difficulties, trauma, life crises, and at times of disconnection, uncertainty, or life transition. Alongside my private practice, I work as part of a wider clinical team providing creative therapeutic support to clients and their families navigating life-limiting illness.

My practice is warm, non-judgmental, and confidential. 1:1 Sessions are available in person in Farnham, Surrey, and online for those further afield. Group Workshops & Retreats by enquiry.

I warmly invite you to get in touch if you’d like an exploratory conversation or to book a session.