Creative Director & Art Therapist

Sheena McGregor

Sheena is a graduate from Glasgow School of Art and a Founder Member of the Glasgow Print Studio.  She previously worked as an Art Tutor for HMP Barlinnie from 1991 – 2000 and qualified as an Art Therapist at Queen Margaret University College in 2000. Sheena is state registered with the Health Professionals Council and is a member of the British Association of Art Therapists.  She has particular interests in working with Children with Emotional Distress, Fostering and Adoption, Mothers with Postnatal Depression and Eating Disorders. 

Sheena has art work in many private and public collections and has 2 children Josi and Sepp.

Therapists & Arts Workers

Rachel Campling

After a career in languages and with a life-long love of movement and drama, Rachel gained an MA in Drama and Movement Therapy and now works as a dramatherapist and trainer with children, young people and adults in education and mental health settings. Having had personal experience of the healing effects of  imagination and movement, she is passionate about using creative arts to nurture confidence and creativity.

Lesley Craigie – Movement Therapist

Lesley is a Movement Therapist whose background is in physical education. She has worked in special education for more than 20 years with children and young people with a range of disabilities. She has also delivered courses and In-Service training which has focused on movement as a means of communication. The training is titled, ‘Creative Interaction’ and is a way for the participants to explore their inner worlds using improvisation and expressive movement.

Pearl Kinnear – Artist

As well as being a practising artist, over the past 12 years Pearl has gained a wealth of experience on a wide range of projects in the community. Pearl has worked with clients of all ages and from a variety of circumstances and backgrounds. Pearl believes that the most rewarding thing about her work is witnessing the confidence and enjoyment that experiencing art can bring to participants and the new voice that people find through creativity.

Janie Nicoll - Artist

Janie is a Visual Artist who works across art forms but who predominantly works with digital photography and installation.  Janie is also currently Artist in Residence (digital media) at Callendar House, Callendar Park, Falkirk.

Kavitha Ratnam – Art Therapist

Kavitha qualified as an Art Therapist in 2004 from Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh and is registered with the Health Professionals Council.  She is also a member of the British Association of Art Therapists.  She has special interests in working with children and families and in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  Kavitha also has an interest in narratives – from the stories of our individual experiences of life, to the fairie and mythical stories of the world.  Her past experience includes Art Therapy work with asylum seekers, refugees and displaced people, children in mainstream education facing exclusion, adolescents suffering from disturbances in Mental Health and elderly people in psychiatric day care. 

Louise Schmid-Butler – Art therapist

Louise is a State Registered Art Therapist who qualified in 1996 from the University Settlement of Edinburgh.  Louise works with an eclectic approach which is a matrix of theoretical concepts drawn form Donald Winnicott, Wilfred Bion and C.G. Jung.  Louise has a special interest in Drawing on Dreams, Intercultural Issues, and Aesthetic Experience (or lack of it) in Early Infant Attachments.

Louise has experience of different client groups in a variety of settings: people of all ages in Mental Health, social services, mainstream education and in the independent sector.

Aby Vulliamy – Music Therapist

Aby divides her time between working as a freelance Music Therapist in Glasgow, and lecturing and supervising students on the MSc training in Music Therapy at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.  Aby’s clinical work is mostly with children and adolescents with learning disabilities or mental health problems in educational, psychiatric inpatient and residential care settings.

Aby has also presented clinical case studies using images and sounds from Art and Music therapy groups at conferences and trainings around the UK and as far afield as Estonia.