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We contain many parts. None of them are wrong, all of them are trying to help. Art gives each part a voice and a face, returning it to its place at the table. Nothing is broken; nothing needs fixing.
Welcome to Mira
The name itself holds the intention, being rooted in the Latin mirare, to behold with wonder, and carried across traditions as peace and nourishment, while also being the name of a star deep in the belly of the Cetus constellation.
This practice was born from a simple belief: that being deeply seen is where healing begins. David is an art therapist and creative consultant whose work draws from Jungian depth psychology, Internal Family Systems, gestalt therapy, and trauma-informed practice, always tailored to the person sitting across from him.
At the heart of his approach is the ‘Inner Sky’ framework: a way of mapping your inner world with curiosity rather than judgement, exploring the parts of you that have gone unseen, unfelt, or unnamed.
Whether you are navigating personal transformation, relationship challenges, a season of loss, or the quiet existential weight of midlife, Mira offers a safe and grounded space to find what is true, and to return, like that slow-pulsing star, to yourself.
What is art therapy
Art therapy uses painting, collage, clay and mark-making to understand and express what words often can't reach.
The creative act is at the heart of it. But art therapy requires no previous art experience or skill. It values the process far more than the end product.
Past experiences, present confusion, buried feelings, unnamed fears and quiet hopes can all find their shape when you connect with your creative self.
During the creative process, the image becomes the witness. That intuitive, felt sense of knowing becomes visible through symbolism and metaphor. Your own visual language is brought from the darkness within and illuminated brightly. Your own personal constellation of stars.
Who comes to art therapy
Some arrive in a period of transition, questioning who they are, what they want, where they belong. Others come because familiar coping strategies have simply stopped working.
In their own words
I don't know who I am anymore.
I'm always anxious but I don't know why.
I can't talk about it. I just don't have the words.
I feel like I'm too much and not enough at the same time.
Do I need therapy?
What happens in a session
You don't need to be an artist. The work isn't about skill. It's about what emerges when you give something form.
We might work with paint, collage, mark-making, or whatever material feels right. Sometimes we talk about what you've made. Sometimes we simply sit with it.
The image becomes a third presence in the room, something to look at together, without judgment. Your art is your witness, who sees you deeply.
The approach
We contain many parts. None of them are wrong, all of them are trying to help. Art gives each part a voice and a face, returning it to its place at the table. Nothing is broken; nothing needs fixing.
You already hold what you need. My role isn't to direct or diagnose, but to offer a space, a process, and a witness, so you can access it in your own time.
Making something with your hands engages a part of you that analysis alone can't reach. The image often knows before you do. Together we unlock the portals to your own meaning-making.
The signature programme
A six-session, IFS-informed art therapy journey into the parts of you that make you you. Each session gently builds on the last, guiding you inward, toward a deeper understanding of who you are, why you're here, and what you're meant to do.
Designed for those at a significant threshold, leaving home, a mid-life reckoning, perimenopause, or the existential questions of later life. Sometimes it's in the quieter, darker places that we find what we've been looking for all along.
Begin the Inner SkyWho I work with
Often exhilarating, often disorienting. Identity, belonging, direction and self-worth all surface here. This is a place to make sense of it at your own pace.
A period of introspection, where we begin to ask whether our choices still align with who we've become and what we value now.
Retirement, illness or loss can stop us in our tracks. This season often turns our attention toward healing old wounds and leaving something meaningful behind.
For anyone carrying something they haven't been able to put down, whether longstanding or newly arrived.
Focused on stress, burnout and anger management, group sessions can meaningfully reduce emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation. Helping people regulate their emotional responses improves communication and the culture of a workplace.
About
Long before formal training, art was already making itself felt deeply within. As a practising artist and designer, creativity had always been a place of inquiry, not just expression, which led naturally toward a deeper question: what is actually happening when we make something?
That question drew David to the analytical tradition, to Jung's depth psychology, Bion's thinking on the unthinkable, Lacan's language of the unconscious, and the mythological imagination of Joseph Campbell, whose maps of the hero's journey still inform David's work. Rooted in soul rather than symptom, his approach draws on art, poetry, music and the more ancient art of alchemy, seeing in each a language for what cannot easily be spoken.
Today David works at the intersection of image-making and inner life as an art psychotherapist, artist and designer, holding space for the kind of deep, unhurried work that transformation actually requires.
Writing
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A free, no-pressure introductory call, giving you an opportunity to ask questions and feel whether this is right for you.