About me

Registered Art Therapist HCPC AS018384  .   BAAT 47537

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My name is Taline Schubach. I’m a Brazilian art therapist, trained in Spain and professionally registered in the UK with the HCPC and BAAT. As a doubly immigrant, I understand the challenges and transformations that come with adapting, belonging, and rediscovering one’s roots.

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I am passionate about human development and the integration of body, mind, and creativity. I hold postgraduate degrees (advanced diploma) in Ecology of Human Systems and Brief Character-Analytic Psychology from the Spanish School of Reichian Therapy (Es.Te.r), and a cetificated diploma in Clay Field Therapy® with The Institute of Sensorimotor Art Therapy. These approaches, together with my artistic background, shape the way I work — honouring the connection between body and mind and recognising that creative expression, free from judgment, is the quintessence of the human condition.

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Alongside therapy, I have built a career as a children’s book illustrator, with more than 50 published titles across Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Spain, and Madagascar. Art has always been both my language and my bridge to understanding people.

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I’ve long been curious about the human mind — our anxieties, attachments, and creative drives. My practice is informed by Bowlby’s studies on attachment, Winnicott’s ideas of creativity and play, and A.S. Neill’s philosophy of freedom and respect for the growing being. Inspired by Neill, freedom is my favourite word — and I see therapy as a journey toward the freedom to be who we truly are. 

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In Spain, I worked with first-time parents, co-facilitated childbirth & breastfeeding preparation courses, delivered a series of art-based wellbeing sessions to people who live with schizophrenia and supported women undergoing breast cancer treatment through art therapy group sessions.

In the UK, I have coordinated peer support groups for Latin American immigrant women survivors of domestic violence and worked with teenagers and children of immigrants (including third culture kids), I have supported transgender and gender-questioning people, and MA students navigating identity, belonging, sense of purpose and self-expression. These experiences continually remind me of the importance of community, inclusion, and self-care.

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My approach to therapy is relational and psychodynamic. Whether online or in person, I invite you to explore your inner world through free artistic creation. From each artwork, we reflect together on the process and what emerges. In art therapy, free creation plays a similar role to free association in psychoanalysis — revealing, gently and at its own pace, the aspects of ourselves we are ready to see.

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Any art we create holds fragments of who we are — sometimes what we already know, sometimes what we have yet to discover. Revisiting an artwork can uncover new meanings and insights, deepening the therapeutic process. In this client–artwork–therapist dialogue, we find the space to reflect, grow, and reconnect with ourselves.

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If you’ve read this far, I invite you to sit beside me — even virtually — and begin this journey of self-expression and self-knowledge through art.