Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies

Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies advocates for contextualising of clinical thinking and experience within a social and political framework that acknowledges the importance of intersectionality. Bringing reflections on their own identity and their professional knowledge to the work, creative therapists address both practical work with clients and the theory behind these therapeutic practices. A call to reflexivity allows the reader to consider their own position as a practitioner.
These chapters will challenge and develop thinking on intersectional identities. Beyond the individual, the book demonstrates the need to embed knowledge of intersectionality in the profession at large.
Experienced practitioners write from diverse perspectives across the arts psychotherapies, exploring how structures of power, privilege and prejudice influence practice and outcomes.

Jessica Collier is an art psychotherapist and clinical supervisor working with women in the female prison estate and women and men with complex personalities in the criminal justice system. She lectures nationally and internationally on forensic art psychotherapy and has published widely, focusing on trauma and unconscious re-enactments in forensic institutions and wider society. Jessica is co-convenor of the Forensic Arts Therapies Advisory Group, visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and senior lecturer at the University of Roehampton. She is co-editor of the International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy.


Corrina Eastwood is a practicing artist, activist and art psychotherapist. She has worked in a variety of settings including schools, hospitals, homeless hostels, therapeutic communities and charities. She is founder of the not for profit feminist arts organisation Sweet 'Art which has to date hosted over forty art exhibitions and projects privileging the voices of women and marginalised groups and exploring important social issues through the arts. She has published academically on working with women with a BPD diagnosis from a feminist perspective in art psychotherapy and has worked at the Hertfordshire University as a visiting lecturer. In 2017 she founded the feminist art psychotherapy charity Outskirts with an aim to work with a focus on survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault. She also currently works as an art therapist and supervisor in private practice.