ABSTRACT
The art psychotherapy group was a time-limited bridge group that could receive new members from referrals or from an art psychotherapist at the same National Health Service (NHS) mental health community service who considered the service user would benefit from moving onto the group from individual work. The author describes part of his experience of working in a time-limited way with clients in a group. Both group work and individual work has developed new care pathways to accommodate the needs of the setting and the needs of the clients. Historically, art psychotherapists have often evolved from teaching careers into art psychotherapists. Notably, Adrian Hill and Edward Adamson came from this background at a time when art therapy was in its beginning stages. Time-limited art psychotherapy is a way of showing results as well as enabling increasing numbers of the mental health population to access limited resources for art psychotherapy that are available.
