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When your child/teen persistently finds it difficult to cope with change, manage transitions, negotiate significant life events and struggles when relating to others it may be a sign that they are dealing with a mental health difficulty. The inability to cope with overwhelming feelings can impact the child/teens family life, school and social interactions.

At developing minds we understand that your child/teen may not be able to express or understand how and why they feel this way. Psychotherapy through art can help your child/teen by offering another way to express and process these sometimes overwhelming feelings in a safe and contained way.

WHO WE ARE

Developing Minds is a referral service that offers access to child art psychotherapists who practice the Vasarhelyi method of psychotherapy through art. All child art psychotherapists work privately and independently and have experience of working in a clinical setting with children and adolescents aged between 4 and 18 years of age. This form of art psychotherapy is delivered through many CAMHS clinics, schools, TUSLA Child and family centres, hospitals, and private practices.

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 Our Location


Developing Minds is located approximately 3 km from Ratoath village on the Skryne Road in County Meath, Eircode A85EW01.  You can expect a waiting area, ground floor facilities with wheelchair access and ample car-parking.  All inquiries received via our website will be allocated to the next available therapist.  If we are at full capacity you will be placed on our wait-list for the next available appointment.

Therapeutic Hub


Developing Minds is a therapeutic hub for therapists practicing the Vasarheyli method of Child Art Psychotherapy.  It is the responsibility of each individual therapist to provide a therapeutic contract with service users as outlined by the Association of Child Art Psychotherapy

(ACAP ) code of ethics. 

WHAT WE OFFER

THIS GENTLE FORM OF THERAPY IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO MAKE SENSE OF THEIR INNER WORLD, TO ‘TELL THEIR STORY" AND ALLOW SOMETIMES DIFFICULT AND UNWANTED FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS TO MATERIALISE IN A SAFE AND CONTAINING THERAPEUTIC SPACE.   


THIS METHOD OF ART PSYCHOTHERAPY IS PROVEN TO INCREASE RESILIENCE, ENHANCE SELF ESTEEM,  REDUCE ANXIETY AND STRESS, RESOLVE INNER CONFLICTS, OFFER SELF-REGULATION AND WHILE RESPONDING TO SEPARATION AND LOSS. 

WHAT WE DO

Child art psychotherapists work in a psychoanalytic and psychodynamic way and follow the child’s lead. We do not believe in only focusing on the presenting symptom, as the symptom is considered to be a manifestation of a more complex internal issue. The art materials are a gentle way for expression, where we can observe your child/adolescent and note what themes are emerging. This method of psychotherapy is delivered individually and consists of assessments, therapeutic planning, treatment, and progress reviews for a limited or open-ended duration depending on the child/teen’s presentation.


IF YOUR CHILD IS IN CRISIS WHERE YOU FEEL THEY COULD DO HARM TO THEMSELVES OR OTHERS PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL GP OR EMERGENCY SERVICES.