“Through Creativity, we can rewrite our stories, transform pain into beauty, and create new narratives of resilience.”
Create Your Therapy
Hi, I’m Muna. A fully insured, DBS checked Creative Therapist, based in Lincolnshire, UK.
I offer a safe, compassionate and non-judgemental environment, alongside creative tools and emotional support, to help you explore your inner world, gain clarity, and navigate life’s challenges with greater flexibility, resilience and self-understanding.
We all hold the answers we long for within us. Sometimes, we simply need gentle support to uncover them, trust our intuition, and reconnect with who we truly are.
About Me
Originally from Essex, I moved to the countryside over a decade ago in search of a slower, more grounded way of living. After years spent in high-pressure roles and busy environments, I felt a deep need to pause, reflect, and reconnect with myself.
In 2019, after discovering a lump through self-examination, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Halfway through treatment, the world went into lockdown. I needed emotional and mental support during and after treatment, but at that time the waiting list for counselling was around 12 months. It wasn’t until 18 months later that I was finally able to access online counselling.
When treatment ends and you “ring the bell,” the emotional impact often arrives with full force. I had spent so long in fight-or-flight mode that I was deeply traumatised. Anxiety overwhelmed me. I struggled to process new information, felt emotionally fragile, and didn’t recognise myself anymore, both mentally and physically.
I realised I had a choice: to continue living as someone I no longer recognised, or to choose healing — not only from recent experiences, but from years of unprocessed pain that had unknowingly shaped my life.
By the time I began counselling, much of the initial anxiety and PTSD had eased, not because I was healed but because I had buried the emotions felt. While talking helped, I often felt unsure what to talk about, and revisiting the past sometimes reopened old wounds, bringing physical symptoms back to the surface. I later understood that receiving support when the wounds were fresh would have been a kinder form of healing. Instead, those experiences had become stored in my body, resurfacing repeatedly in different ways.
How Creative Therapy Helped Me
I once heard someone say that creativity could help anxiety. I decided to try — after all, what did I have to lose?
I explored many creative outlets: clay play, jigsaw puzzles (which deeply calmed my mind), woodwork, painting, drawing and sewing. Slowly, my creativity came alive. Through creative expression, I was able to release emotions I didn’t yet have words for. It felt freeing.
As my healing journey deepened, I learned how emotions affect the body, how creativity supports the nervous system and brain, and how we can gently retrain ourselves to ease anxiety and work through trauma.
I began to truly understand myself — my behaviour patterns, where they stemmed from, and how to change them with compassion rather than self-criticism. My inner dialogue shifted from self-sabotage to self-kindness. I learned to trust myself again and stand by my own decisions.
I no longer felt the need to wear a mask shaped by external expectations. Instead, I became comfortable in my own skin. As my confidence grew, I gained practical tools to manage stress, understand my responses, and move through challenges with greater ease.
The year before my breast cancer diagnosis, I had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia — something I had struggled with for many years. As I focused on healing both body and mind, my symptoms eased and flare-ups became less frequent.
My treatment journey continued over the following years, including preventative surgeries and a double oophorectomy, which brought on immediate menopause and a deep-rooted grief that changed me once again.
My Approach
My story is unique to me — just as yours is unique to you. No two people experience or process life events in the same way.
Counselling and talking therapy can be incredibly supportive, particularly when navigating current challenges. However, repeatedly revisiting the past and reopening old wounds can sometimes feel overwhelming. Healing doesn’t always require remembering every detail of what happened.
Creative Therapy offers a different way in — one that works gently with the body, mind and nervous system, allowing expression, processing and healing without pressure or re-traumatisation.
Today, through Create Your Therapy, I support others in reconnecting with who they truly are beyond trauma — helping them move through overwhelming emotions, rediscover balance, and experience a renewed sense of freedom and self-trust.
We all have a creative side.
Let today be the day you ignite that flame.
Our Story
Create Your Therapy was born from personal experience.
What began as a way to support those going through cancer, or adjusting to life after treatment, has grown into something far bigger than I ever expected. That growth came from a simple truth:
Creative Therapy is not limited to one experience or diagnosis. It has the ability to support people navigating a wide range of life challenges.
Every decision we make and every experience we face shapes who we become. Along the way, we are given a choice. We can allow our experiences to define us. We can blame them for our behaviours. Or we can choose to make changes within ourselves — to move forward with greater calm, clarity, and freedom from emotional pain.
Create Your Therapy exists to support that choice.
You don’t need to revisit the past, in detail, to heal from it
A Gentler Approach to Healing
Creative therapy offers a kinder, more intuitive approach to mental and emotional wellbeing. Through art-based modalities, we create a safe space to explore emotions, experiences, and inner landscapes, especially when words are difficult to find.
Art allows expression beyond language. It helps uncover emotions connected to life events and past trauma in a way that feels supportive rather than overwhelming.
Healing Without Reliving the Trauma
Revisiting traumatic events in detail can sometimes cause the brain to repeatedly relive the experience, making the emotional wound feel fresh again. Instead of focusing on retelling the event, creative therapy explores the emotions and sensory experiences connected to it.
Trauma is often stored through the senses—smell, touch, sound, sight, and taste—as well as the emotions felt at the time. By gently exploring these connections, we gain insight into emotional patterns and behaviours without needing to reopen old wounds.
Rewriting Your Story
This process allows us to better understand our inner world and begin rewriting our story—one that moves toward healing, liberation, and freedom from what once held us back.
By integrating creative modalities with psychology and psychotherapy, creative therapy offers a powerful way to access understanding, growth, and emotional release—especially when words are not enough.
Why Creative Therapy?
As children, creativity flows freely. But as we move through life, responsibilities, expectations, and experiences can gradually pull us away from that creative connection. Over time, this disconnection may lead to suppressed emotions, a loss of imagination, unfulfillment, and a feeling of emptiness or dissatisfaction.
Restoring Balance
Our brain has two hemispheres:
the left, responsible for logic and reasoning
the right, responsible for creativity and emotional expression
When one side is relied upon more than the other, imbalance can occur. Constant consumption without creation further disrupts this balance, often leading to emotional disconnection, mental stagnation, and a sense of being “stuck.”
Creative therapy helps restore this balance by reconnecting you with your creative and emotional self.
We are naturally creative beings. We were born to create.
Modalities we use
Painting | Drawing | Journaling | Creative writing | Poetry | Colouring | Sand play | Clay work
Music & Sound | Dance & Movement | Meditation | Breathing techniques | Nature