Creating Insights Art Therapy
Hello and welcome! Thank you for landing here. To me, ‘creating insights’ sums up the experiences of myself and my clients when making art and meaning of our work, world, circumstances, challenges, realisations, strengths and so forth, together. My lived experience very much informs the way I work and build relationships with my clients.
“It’s not what you make, it’s how it makes you feel.” Louise Weston
Art Therapy is a gentle, self-paced, self-directed practice. It is rich in its ability to provide a person-centred approach for achieving self-awareness, healing and growth.
Art Therapy offers the client a chance for free expression and self-exploration in a non-judgemental way. Through a support and encouragement, it has the ability to help build on skills such as resilience, confidence, self-regulation and so on.
Art Therapy for me combines my two favourite things, art and self growth. I have always sought ways to improve my own mental wellness to navigate my own challenges. In fact, followed this path to help myself and others. We all have our own story and with the right support and tools I believe you can make the best out of any situation you have encountered. What’s more, you can take that experience and grow from it.
Art Therapy uses many different creative and expressive modalities to access all abilities and offers an expansive opportunity for self discovery and healing.
With regular exposure to Art Therapy, clients are able to tap into their feelings and state of awareness so much that they are able to self direct themselves through their own healing. This to me is like unlocking their inner strengths and a wonderful privilege to witness and companion.
Art has been my friend and go to since I was a toddler. My very patient Mother allowed me to be in creative bliss (mess) freely till my heart’s content and I have in turn done the same for my children and now others through my expressive workshops and individual therapy.
I believe there is great benefit in being in the right head space, free from critical thinking to be able to truly and freely create… READ ON
- “Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about.” Rumi
- “The purpose of the flow is to keep on flowing, not looking for a peak or utopia but staying in the flow.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- “Creativity cannot flourish and reach its deepest potential without the participation of its demons as well as its angels.” Shaun McNiff
- PACFA Clinical Member 30647
- ANZACATA Professional Member 55812777
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