M y work as a mental health practitioner over the past fourteen years and my own experience have led me clearly to the view that if we can help people get in touch with the creative side of their brain they can begin to use the potential which is there to imagine themselves as well and to imagine the steps they must take to get themselves well.

This process has proven its effectiveness irrelevant of the starting illness, be it depression, addiction or whatever.

Therefore I have been developing and delivering therapy utilizing Images and Poetry to allow clients to engage in the process of exercising their creative abilities. The whole aim of the therapy being to enable them to think themselves well.

Already this process is effectively in place in a facility assisting recovery from addiction. Another project is due to start soon.

I am available to discuss this process and how it works and to demonstrate its effectiveness or to train people in the delivery of such therapy. See contact page for details of how to get in touch.

Some samples of Images and Poetry used during these sessions can be found below.

Images & Poetry Samples

	The view from a glass I use a glass to take the edges off the world. Tip up, look through the bottom, the world’s a different shape. Less sharp, less clear, less well defined and much less threatening. Yet this is all illusion for I can’t hold that view. The fuzzy turns to dark, to black, a dank depressing place. With one more glass, all good has gone. I’m left only deep despair.
Photograph © by Daniel Lyons.	© David Agnew 2007. All rights reserved.
	Significant? I drift across the fabric of the day, Touching down, just now and then To check that I exist. Perhaps there is a ripple on the surface Which marks my passage on the way And says that I’ve been there? Perhaps when I touch down I leave a marker? Enough to last in memory A footprint in the sand?
Photograph © by Daniel Lyons.	© David Agnew 2007. All rights reserved.
Photograph © by Daniel Lyons.
	Solitude Solitude A lonely place or a place alone? Solitude A place of sloth or of creation? Solitude For deep regret or for reflection? Solitude I must accept where I am today. Solitude is the result of choices on the way.
	© David Agnew 2007. All rights reserved.