Role at Interwoven Arts CIC
- Director & Wellbeing Advisor
- Deputy Safeguarding Lead
- Trauma-informed practice, psychological safety review, safeguarding frameworks
Other governance commitments
Founder, Grove Wellbeing CIC (Glastonbury, 2024) — direct CIC governance experience. Dan Gauden serves on the Grove Wellbeing board as co-director.
Qualifications and credentials
- BA (Hons) Creative Expressive Therapies
- PGCE (Secondary School Art Teacher), Goldsmiths University, London
- Diploma in Eco-Therapy
- Diploma in Celtic Mythology
- Diploma in Herbalism
- Certificates in Reiki Healing and Shamanism
- Member of the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists (MNCP)
Professional experience
- Trained therapist since 2013 — over twelve years of practice as an art therapy practitioner.
- Five years with a Mental Health Intensive Intervention Team, working with families and children on the edge of foster care to move through trauma and mental health challenges.
- Child and family therapist for Social Services.
- Founded Grove Wellbeing CIC in Glastonbury (2024) — discounted therapy sessions and free wellbeing groups reconnecting people with UK and Ireland folklore through creative art and eco-therapy.
- International humanitarian work — creative therapy with refugees in Calais.
- Founded an activist art group in London for climate-change marches.
- Udemy instructor — courses on creative therapy for children and families.
Therapy modalities and specialisms
Art therapy and creative expressive therapy. Eco-therapy (outdoor, nature-based therapeutic practice). Talking therapy and counselling. Walk-and-talk therapy. Trauma-informed practice. Psychedelic integration therapy. Celtic shamanic Reiki healing. Spiritual mentoring along the Celtic Ogham tree path.
Relevance to Interwoven Arts
Kubi brings clinical-grade therapeutic knowledge into a non-clinical arts organisation. Her presence ensures that installations designed to produce calm, safety, and emotional openness are grounded in genuine therapeutic understanding. Her eco-therapy background aligns directly with the company’s work in natural and cultivated environments. Her trauma-informed practice and intensive-intervention experience apply directly to working with neurodivergent and disabled audiences and families who may carry complex histories.
The working relationship between Kubi and Dan Gauden is long-standing and tested across years and multiple settings. It now runs structurally through both CICs — Kubi as director of Interwoven Arts CIC, Dan as co-director of Grove Wellbeing CIC. The two organisations operate adjacent missions in active collaboration.
Online presence
- kubimaycrafts.com
- grovewellbeing.co.uk
- Instagram: @kubi.may
- Facebook: @KubiMaycrafts
- Udemy: udemy.com/user/karenna-magee-2/