Title: Art Psychotherapist
Department: Arts Therapies
Location: Rampton Hospital
Phone: 01777 248321 ext 7929
Email: emma.allen@nottshc.nhs.uk
Research Interests: Assessment; First images; Forensic sandplay therapy; Content analysis; Qualitative and case study research
Teaching Interests: Forensic arts therapies
Biography: Emma Allen, HCPC registered Art Psychotherapist and Sandplay Therapist, (British and Irish Sandplay Society), works at Rampton Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the UK. She is a published author, clinical supervisor, forensic psychology lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, and is the founder and researcher of ‘Forensic Sandplay Therapy’.
Author's Works
- The mask with three faces [In Press], 2020
- Killing time: The dying art therapy group in a high secure hospital, 2019
- Breaking and entering: Wounded masculinity and sexual offending, 2019
- Healing wounded masculinities through a confrontation with the archetypal feminine in forensic sandplay therapy, 2018
- Introducing forensic sandplay therapy, 2018
- "Hear, see, speak no evil" - Confronting the monkey in forensic sandplay therapy, 2018
- The firesetter's search for a "place called home", 2018
- Breaking and entering: Wounded masculinity in sex offender treatment, 2017
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf: A collaborative approach to long term segregation, 2017
- The boy who cried wolf: A collaborative approach to long term segregation, 2017