‘Art for Anxiety’ on display at NHS Maudsley.

Combined with staff supporting the art sessions, it helped participants promote self-expression, increase self-awareness and self-worth, and decrease stress and anxiety'. Watch a video via tinyurl.com/AmbientMHAW Art created by people with lived experience of mental health is being displayed in Maudsley Hospital in partnership with Bethlem Gallery, South London, to promote the importance of art therapy in supporting mental wellbeing. Melissa Charlton, Ambient Occupational Therapy Technician, who has a Diploma in Psychology and Applied Sciences, helped to facilitate and co-ordinate the art sessions and observed the participants' experience. [Extracted from the article]