Poetic Medicine is the use of poetry to help us explore, express and make sense of our inner lives. Long before the consulting room, people turned to poems in times of difficulty; to give suffering a shape, and to find a way back to themselves.

Poetry can speak where ordinary language fails us: in the thresholds of life where the old maps no longer hold; grief, burnout, illness, change, or the quiet undoing of a life we had built. A poem allows us to speak crookedly, through fragment and image, and sometimes to say the thing we have been carrying but couldn’t quite name.

You don’t have to be creative. You don’t have to know anything about poetry. You only have to be willing to listen. Through poems, reflection and gentle creative exploration, we can discover new ways of seeing ourselves and what we are going through.

And you don’t have to do this alone. In a small group, there is space to be heard, witnessed and held in the company of others, offering something of the depth and reflection of one-to-one therapy, while making it more accessible and affordable.

The Clearing is a new group programme launching in Autumn 2026.  Please submit your details and I will be in touch with more details including programme dates and times and the investment.