Creative Arts Therapies Space CIC

05/10/2026

Meet the Therapists who help make CATS what it is, swipe through to get to know our Affiliated (Tier 2) Therapists

To know more about how they work we invite you to look at their profiles on our Meet The Team Page through our website.

We still have availability for 1:1 sessions. If you are curious about therapy at CATS you can self-refer through our website, link provided through our bio.

With Warmth x CATS

24/09/2026

What’s happening at CATS this September & October?

Follow the black cats for the dates to keep in your diary.

A Rambling Curiosity

Fortnightly on Sundays with Catherine Muir.

Tickets via the link in our Highlights or our Events Page on our website

Fundraising Life Drawing

Every Saturday at CATS. Net proceeds, after paying our life model, go directly to our CATS Mental Health Fund.

So far, your support has helped us price-match 70 Pay What You Can, time-limited therapy sessions, alongside sessions that are still ongoing and sessions that we didn’t price match.

That means real therapy, made financially accessible, because people showed up, drew, donated and supported CATS.

We’re working towards securing external funding so we can offer our therapists better rates and grow the fund further. Until then, your participation is helping make the work possible and helping us build the evidence to secure the funding we need next.

Thank you for being part of it. Come along. Make art. Support accessible therapy.

23/09/2026

Meet the therapists who help make CATS what it is, swipe through to get to know our Resident Therapists..

To know more about how they work we invite you to look at their profiles on our Meet The Team Page through our website ✨

Next week we will introduce you to our Affiliated therapists and give you a wee look into the therapists that will join CATS soon further down the line

We still have availability for 1:1 sessions as well if you are curious about therapy at CATS you can self-refer through our website, we have also provided a link in our bio.

With Warmth x CATS

12/08/2026

• Fringe is a beautiful but incredibly busy time • we do have some gentle workshops outside of city centre if you are searching for a little quiet creativity • Join Us for our August Events • Scroll through for a little description of each and book your ticket through our events page or the links in our events highlights •

Inspired by a different topic each session, meet and connect with others through free flowing conversations and writing freely.
Fortnightly workshop: Sundays at 3.30pm
Further information: CATS event page or event highlight for tickets and more info

Developed and Led by Catherine Muir

• Our soon to be weekly weekend fundraising life drawing sessions from 7 to 9 pm • Net proceeds after fairly paying out life model go toward our Time Limited Therapy Fund • Book Tickets through our CATS Events Page or our highlights •

10/08/2026

19/07/2026

Are you an HCPC-Registered Creative Arts Therapist ready to build your own practice, and looking for ways to build it in community with other creative therapists?

CATS is a dedicated shared space for registered art, music, and dramatherapists in Edinburgh. We’re expanding from 17 to 30 practitioners, and we have 13 spaces open.



Whether you’re newly qualified or new to private practice, you’ll get a ready-made space, a community of peers, and a framework built around sustainable, ethical practice, not just a room to rent.

Full details on what’s included and how to join are on our website • link in bio.

📍 43–45 Easter Road, Edinburgh

07/07/2026

• Are you an HCPC registered music, art or drama therapist (or organisation providing these forms of therapy) in Glasgow or surrounding areas? •
• Do you offer support for free or on a sliding scale? •

• At CATS we take offering mental health and wellbeing support very seriously, and this includes signposting to similar services that would be closer to the person searching for support and reduce the barriers of accessibility through visibility, whether it’s for CATS or other services •

• As such we are collating contact information from therapists/organisations who work within a sliding scale similar to our own •

• We are starting with Glasgow first as this is the furthest place we have had referrals from in Scotland • So if this is you please get in touch through our email which you can find in our bio and or website •

24/05/2026

CATS has officially been open for over a year, and in that time, we’ve grown (and continue to grow) into a thriving creative therapeutic community.

Over the last year, we’ve:
• Welcomed 17 Art, Music & Dramatherapists
• Built partnerships with the community and third sector organisations
• Secured funding to expand accessibility and outreach
• Developed a growing referral pathway with increasing therapist capacity
• Supported community programmes, therapeutic groups, and refugee outreach
• Created a collaborative space focused on sustainable, supported creative practice
We’re now expanding our therapist network and looking for HCPC- or UKCP-registered creative psychotherapists to join us.

CATS offers:

🐈‍⬛ Creative therapy spaces
🐈‍⬛ Art materials & storage
🐈‍⬛ Group supervision* & peer support
🐈‍⬛ Referral support
🐈‍⬛ Monthly CPD*
🐈‍⬛ Opportunities for outreach & funded projects

If you’re looking for a supportive, community-led space to grow your practice, we’d love to hear from you.

*These are included in our Tier 3 rates but are available as add ons and pending training capacity to Tier 2

Pictures kindly taken by

24/05/2026

🌞 Join us this end of May and start of June for our Draped Life Drawing Fundraisers and a Japanese Calligraphy Workshop led by To book you can find both events on our Events link in our bio or look at our event highlights.

21/03/2026

We are still open for self-referrals at Creative Arts Therapies Space (CATS)

If you are considering or are curious about creative psychotherapy, we offer free initial consultations with our HCPC-registered Art, Music and Dramatherapists.

You will have the chance to talk through what support might work for you, including choice of rate and choice of length of therapy, where safe and appropriate.

CATS Offers:

* No Means-Tested Sliding Scale

* Pay-What-You-Can Time Limited Therapy Where available

* Art, Music and Dramatherapy with HCPC Registered Therapists

* A Calm, Welcoming space in Leith

If you would like to self-refer you can do so through our referral system in our website or by contacting [email protected]