A Way of Seeing

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Some things are difficult to hold in words alone.

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RATH has evolved through a continuing dialogue between artistic practice, clinical experience, research, translation, collaboration, and Living Experience.

Rather than belonging to a single discipline, RATH is held by a way of seeing that attends to perception, relationship, threshold, and what begins to take form.

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RATH has also been shaped by years spent accompanying leadership across organisational, cultural, and geographical boundaries. Living alongside differing rhythms of change and responsibility cultivated an attentiveness to what people carry inwardly and to what often remains unspoken.

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An Integrative Practice

Noriko Ninomiya’s practice has been shaped through four years of postgraduate training in Transpersonal Arts Counselling at the Tobias School of Art and Therapy in the UK. Within this experiential training, artistic practice, therapeutic process, and an evolving understanding of the human being are woven together through different perspectives and ways of knowing.

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​Alongside her independent artistic practice, she works within an AnthroMed-certified clinical setting as part of a multidisciplinary team rooted in anthroposophical medicine, with its centre in Switzerland. Her clinical work is grounded in person-centred values and held within the ethical framework of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

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The practice unfolds through an integrative and experiential approach, drawing, where appropriate, on frameworks such as the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC), while remaining responsive to the person, the materials, and what emerges within the process itself. No single method or theoretical position is sufficient to contain it.

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Expression and Impression

At the heart of the practice is the movement between expression and impression. Expression is not simply the release of something internal. Through artistic process, something not yet formed may begin to find form. Impression is not passive reception. Through encounters with colour, form, texture, and material, the world meets us, and a response may arise. Artistic materials are not merely tools. Each carries its own qualities and participates in a relational process between person, material, space, and what is emerging.

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Encounter

Those who enter this space may be carrying illness or grief, an unformed question, an emerging possibility, a long-held uncertainty, a memory held in the body, or something within that is beginning to seek form.

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Each process unfolds differently, shaped by the person, the materials, and what emerges between them.

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RATH remains attentive to moments when something begins to take form.

Not through explanation or interpretation alone, but through encounter — through Begegnung.