Our Services
Corporate Wellbeing Consultancy and Support
ColourMeIn Wellbeing are passionate about bringing cultural change to organisations, supporting improved employee mental health - resulting in increased productivity.
Our services range from helping to identify and assess your organisation's current state of wellbeing, to developing and executing a remediation programme - ranging from a shame-free coffee to deeper therapy work. Solutions flexed to meet your needs.
Art and Creative Therapy
Our therapy sessions combine talking therapy with the the use of art materials. Art unblocks the brain and allows it to speak where words may not be able to. These therapy sessions provide a confidential, clinical space for you to explore any aspect of your life that may be getting in the way of your future success.
Our therapists are experienced with all age groups and complexities. Complete the booking form below for an initial discussion to see if we are right for you.
Previous Community Projects
Inside - Out: London Brick Project
Inside - Out: London Brick Project
NHS Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust and Probation Service
Commissioned by the NHS and Probation Service, ColourMeIn designed workshops for both their service users and teams throughout Hertfordshire using the London Brick. The exhibition was held in St Albans Gallery and Museum. This project explored the concept of the London Brick where bricks can symbolise walls and barriers to those who have experienced prison life and have a criminal record, especially if they have a mental health condition.
ATM and Money Project
ATM and Money Project
Excellence in Learning Community - Enfield
Working with Excellence in Learning Community, we developed a project with over 2,000 children in collaboration with schools within Enfield. We based the project around the theme of the ATM as this was where the first ATM in the UK was founded and combined this with Andy Warhol's money factory design.
Catching the Chain Project
Catching the Chain Project
St Albans Museum, NHS Hertfordshire Partnership Trust and Probation Service
Commissioned by the NHS Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust - Offender Personality Disorder Service and the Probation Service, ColourMeIn developed a programme that explored what it what like exiting the prison service for the service users who experienced a mental health condition which can be a very vulnerable time. We also delivered staff wellbeing workshops throughout Hertfordshire, exploring the fragility and strength of their work. The workshops were hosted at St Albans Museum and Gallery and the exhibition was funded by the Arts Council England.
Find out how we can support you
If you would like to know more about how we can help you, your organisation or Community Project, please submit your details below and one of our team will come back to you.
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Our Colourful Story
At ColourMeIn Wellbeing, we blend creativity and psychology to deliver unique art therapy and wellbeing services to both corporate and community clients. Our qualified mental health professionals ensure transformative experiences that nurture mental wellness through art.
ColourMeIn Wellbeing CIC is a not-for-profit organisation. We work with businesses large and small, NGOs, charities, education and healthcare. All proceeds are ploughed into supporting and delivering community projects that struggle to access mental health care provision with fully trained and registered professionals, especially in Creative Therapies.
Our expertise is within organisational wellbeing supporting leadership and their teams in staff wellbeing using evidence based techniques that provide psychological safe environments and improve outcomes in staff relations and overall mental health.
For our community projects, we have a special interest in supporting those who experience barriers to employment and work with other agencies and partners to deliver bespoke programmes for those who encounter barriers such as neurodiversity, learning disabilities, mental health complexities and a criminal record.
Why do we focus on creative therapies for wellbeing and mental health
Research demonstrates that the act of creativity enhances the reduction of the stress hormone, cortisol (Ray, 2016). The World Health Organisation published a report revealing that over 3,000 studies have shown the powerful effect that art making has on the prevention of illness, promotion of health and management, the treatment of illness across one's lifespan, and the general improvement of
wellbeing (Fancourt, 2019). There’s some science to it, so you can have a little faith that what we are saying here isn’t just, you know…arty farty (not that there is anything wrong with that).
So what is Art Therapy?
Art Therapists / Psychotherapists have a Masters Degree and are registered with the Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) and British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT). We work across all industries and embrace diversity, equity and inclusion, understanding the intersectionality of the human experience.
Our model of practice is extensive but is founded on the Psychodynamic approach. We incorporate theories such as attachment, neuroscience, positive psychology, mentalisation and is an ever expanding field in terms of research and innovation. We value co-productive relationships with our clients to encourage a strong therapeutic relationship.
Art Therapy works on the premise that unconscious thoughts and emotions can be processed in a non-confrontational way though art making. Some thoughts and emotions, especially when they were developed preverbally or are trauma based are held in the parts of the brain that talking therapies alone can struggle to access. Symbol formation and creating images along with the use of our senses, helps develop a conscious narrative in a safe and contained way. This can improve our sense of self, emotional regulation and enhance our relationships. This can improve working environments by building resilience in staff members and teams.
You can find out more about Art Therapy and the type of work we do at the BAAT website.
Founder and Director
Rachel Oxborough
MA, BSc, HCPC, BAAT
Rachel has developed ColourMeIn over the past 12 years, serving many organisations in creativity and wellbeing. These have typically included education, the criminal justice system and the NHS. She has also delivered wellbeing courses to corporates such as Deloitte and BUPA.
Having studied Psychology (BSc. Hons, BPS accredited) for many years and qualified as an Art Psychotherapist (MA, HCPC, BAAT), she trained with the Tavistock NHS to supervise those working in community contexts.
Rachel has designed programmes to support all industries with staff wellbeing, using evidence-based techniques.
With emerging insights into neuroscience and the growing need to address work-related stress, art therapy is becoming an essential tool in preventing burnout (emotional labour), compassion fatigue, and secondary shock. Her practice is psychodynamic, working within attachment theory, trauma-focused methods, a client-intuitive approach, and positive psychology.
Rachel has a wonderfully supportive husband, who together have raised three amazing human beings — along with a very cute yet cheeky dog called Lola.
Art Therapist
Maisie Read
MA, BA, HCPC, BAAT
Maisie is a qualified Art Psychotherapist, registered with the HCPC and a member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT). Art therapy provides a safe, containing environment where thoughts and experiences can be explored and understood through symbol-making, playfulness and creative expression, particularly when they feel difficult to articulate through words alone.
With many years’ experience in adult mental health, Maisie has seen first-hand the barriers people face when trying to access timely, meaningful psychological support in the UK. This fuels her commitment to the principle that mental health care is a right, not a privilege. Alongside her work with adults, she has supported children and young people at risk of becoming NEET within a PRU setting, where she witnessed the complex challenges young people navigate in order to access education, wellbeing support and a sense of safety.
Her therapeutic approach is relational, psychodynamic and play-oriented, grounded in trauma-informed care. Maisie offers a thoughtful, attuned and collaborative space where clients can begin to make sense of their internal world, build emotional resilience and reconnect with their own capacity for growth and creativity.
Therapist
Irina Alexa
MA, BA, CPCAB, BACP, SBS.OX
Irina is a qualified Psychotherapist, BACP accredited, a Clinical Supervisor (Level 6), and a Life Master Coach. She has over 40 years of frontline experience: 20 years in nursing (RGN) and 20 years as a therapist and supervisor.
Through the learnings of her own journey of personal therapy, supervision, and coaching, Irina brings her lived understanding into her work. She offers a creative, collaborative space where clients can make sense of their experiences, discover more of themselves, and move towards meaningful change.
Irina is deeply interested in the connection between body memory and the somatic story; how our lived experiences are held beyond logic and continue to shape our decisions and relationships.
Irina specialises in:
- Group work and collective identity;
- Community and systemic dynamics; and
- Facilitating self-awareness and resilience in professionals through supervision.
Director
Aaron Oxborough
MSc, BA, MCIIA
Aaron is a Director in ColourMeIn Wellbeing CIC and has supported Rachel as a volunteer as she has developed ColourMeIn over the years, focusing on the strategic direction and financial oversight of the company.
His day job is as a Partner at Deloitte LLP, leading the UK Internal Audit practice. He has 25 years of experience as an auditor, particularly in areas of sound governance, risk management, and controls.
Art Therapist
Amanda Griffiths
MA, PGCE, BA, HCPC, BAAT
Amanda is a qualified Art Psychotherapist, HCPC registered, and a member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT). Through the power of creativity to support healing, connection, and self-understanding, art therapy can help explore the stories and emotions that shape us - sometimes finding meaning and hope where words alone may fall short.
Amanda also brings significant senior leadership and business experience, having owned and managed multiple Outstanding Ofsted-rated organisations and led teams within highly regulated, performance-driven settings. She understands the realities of corporate culture, organisational change and workplace pressure, translating art therapy principles into accessible, evidence-based interventions that support emotional regulation, resilience, creativity and reflective thinking at work.
Working in a relational and person-centred manner, her approach is ethical, trauma-informed and outcome-focused, making it well suited to large organisations seeking meaningful, preventative mental health and wellbeing support for their workforce.