How Does Art Making Help?

Art making supports mental wellness, recovery, and connection in ways that extend beyond words.
Through creative expression, individuals are offered a safe and flexible means of exploring thoughts, emotions,
and experiences. The process of creativity and making supports emotional regulation,
increases self-awareness, and provides a sense of agency and control.

Art therapy engages cognitive, emotional and sensory processes,
allowing for the gentle integration of experiences held in the body as well as the mind.
Within a supportive therapeutic relationship, this can assist in processing complex or overwhelming experiences.

Engaging in art making within a therapeutic relationship can also foster a renewed sense of connection, both to oneself and to others. It can strengthen identity, support self-expression, and open pathways for relational understanding.
Over time, these processes can contribute to increased emotional resilience,
a deeper sense of self, and a more connected and integrated experience of wellbeing

Workplace

  • Self-Care strategies

  • Tools for everyday life and slowing down

  • Reflection on what’s important

  • Being authentic

  • Balance of Life

  • Playing to your teams’ strengths

  • Workplace Values

  • Tailored themed conference presentation about wellbeing and creativity

  • Working with moral injury, burn out & vicarious trauma

Abstract watercolor painting with black outlines and soft shades of pink, purple, blue, and turquoise, signed by V. Swenson 2022.

School-based programs

  • Respectful relationships

  • Shining Brightly – self-confidence, being yourself

  • Transition programs, prep, year 7

  • School refusers engagement program

  • One on one sessions


    Staff Professional development

  • Responding to trauma and distress

  • Supporting staff to strengthen their work with complex children and behaviours

  • Strategies, supports and reflective practice

  • Working with disability, neurodivergence and complex behaviours in the classroom.

Art Therapy

  • Individual Art Therapy with children, young people and adults

  • Small group Art Therapy programs with adults

  • Dyadic Art Therapy (Child & Parent) art psychotherapy

  • Single session group programs for children and young people

  • Clay Field (Sensorimotor Art Therapy)

  • EMDR & Art Therapy

  • Emotional Focused Tapping

  • Guided Drawing (Sensorimotor Bilateral Drawing)

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