Ani de la Prida

Ani de la Prida, MA, MBACP is a psychotherapist, creative arts counsellor, supervisor and author who brings a person-centred and pluralistic philosophy to her work. She is passionate about creative approaches to therapy with over twenty years’ experience working with children, young people, adults and groups in a wide variety of settings.

Ani is co-founder of the Association for Person Centred Creative Arts (APCCA ). She currently has a small private practice and her research interest is in creative arts and the use of digital media in therapy.

Her recent publications include The Pluralistic Therapy Primer, What Works in Counselling and Psychotherapy Relationships, and Demedicalised counselling and psychotherapy with children and young people in People not Pathology.

She is currently writing Person Centred Creative Arts Therapy: contemporary theory and practice (expected 2024) for Jessica Kingsley Publishers.