ABSTRACT
I have worked as a qualified art therapist with children with emotional difficulties for many years in my art therapy career, which amounts to 20 years and more. In my present part-time art therapy position, in a Child and Family Psychiatry Department, I see children with emotional difficulties on an out-patient basis. For me, in all these years, working with these children has felt sometimes painful, sometimes helpless, sometimes de-skilled, sometimes warm and then feelings I find difficult to name. Working with Ann over the past two years has been an experience that has covered more feelings that I could have imagined. I have learned more about the therapeutic relationship from my experience with Ann than in any other previous therapeutic experience.
