Artist & Therapist
Exploring emotional atmospheres through sound and visuals.
I’m an interdisciplinary artist creating work at the intersection of music, moving image, and psychological states. Using my 25 years experience as a therapist (10yrs as an EMDR therapist) and a Master’s in Music Production, I investigate how sound and visual experiences create shifts in how we feel.
This website is my creative home for these ongoing investigations.
Sometimes feelings are more than words. They are sensations and movements in space and a dynamic response to a wider atmosphere. Little psychogeographical systems. As much about the space around us, as they are about the feelings within us. I’m fascinated by fleeting atmospheric moments. Those times when what you feel isn’t just inside you, but is also in the sky, the movement of a car through landscape, the way sound and visuals merge to shift something or to reflect something that is hard to put into words.
Core Investigations
What I’m Exploring
Emotional Atmospheres
How a feeling is not just a thought or a sensation inside. It is also a movement through space, a sound, a weather system. Feelings are often more than one thing and sadness and beauty can co-exist.
sound, movement, visuals, space
How these elements combine when we move through psychological states. The phenomenon of bilateral audio in therapy and how it assists in processing emotions.. How the sensory world is a part of our emotional experience.
liminal states and transitions
The in-between states and the spaces between our feelings and the spaces we inhabit. How music can support us through transitions, help us process difficult feelings, and guide us from one state to another.
This is my work. I still exploring, still learning, still refining.
Creating space for complex emotions.
My work spans artistic practice (ForestDrive compositions) and professional therapeutic audio-visual experiences (meditation videos, EMDR music, bilateral soundscapes).
Forest Drive Videos
This is my ongoing investigation into how music, movement through landscape, and visuals combine to create emotional atmospheres.
Therapeutic Audio-Visual Experiences
I create Bilateral soundscapes, EMDR music, and meditation audio for wellness platforms, apps, and practitioners.
With my experience as an EMDR therapist with a Master’s in Music Production, I combine therapeutic understanding with professional audio-visual production to create work that supports emotional processing.
Current Investigations
I’m exploring atmospheres and emotion in music and visuals. In particular the concept of the liminal spaces between emotions. Between us and the space we inhabit. Between therapist and artist. Between movement and sound.
My Background
Artist & Therapist
I work at the intersection of sound, visuals, and psychological states. With 25 years as a therapist and a Master’s in Music Production (2024), I bring therapeutic understanding to artistic exploration and creative enquiry informs my professional work. This integration is my distinctive voice.
Clinical credentials
- Accredited CBT Therapist (BABCP / NCPS) Qualified 2001
- EMDR Therapist since (Qualified 2015)
- Brainspotting Therapist (Qualified 2020)
- BSc (Hons) Psychology (2:1, 1998)
- BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy (2:1, 2007)
- 25 Yrs working in mental health
- Author: Do I Need to See a Therapist? (paperback, eBook, audiobook)
Music & Creative Practice
- MMus in Music & Sound (2024)
- PG Diploma Integrative Arts for Health, Education & Community Settings (2003)
- Visual & Performing Arts (1994-1995)
- Visual art practice: text art, poetry
- Singer-Songwriter (Ortense Blue)
What People Say
And Why I Do This
I created the morning drive videos and music compositions to share my expression of atmospheric feeling states. But I have had some beautiful feedback from people who have felt that these resonated with what they are feeling.
“Somehow your music gave me new courage”
“Wonderful so peaceful what a way to start the day”
“Morning vibes that bring hope”
Ortense Blue – Original Music
Explore my songwriting and other music.
Work with me
Collaborations
Installation artists, visual artists, spatial audio practitioners, Welsh arts community. I’m exploring interdisciplinary work, immersive experiences, and the concept of “between.”
Wellness platforms & Practitioners
Apps, platforms, therapists, wellness businesses. Custom therapeutic audio-visual experiences including meditation videos, EMDR music, and bilateral soundscapes for EMDR and Brainspotting.
conversations
Emotional atmospheres, awe, the bittersweet, flow states, liminality, the intersection of psychology and music. Always happy to connect with curious minds.
