Arts Therapy
– NDIS Contractable –
Individual Arts Therapy
One-on-one with Sil either in person at the studio or via Zoom
Group Arts Therapy
Arts therapy workshops for organisations or private groups
Open Studio
Set times through the week where you can just show up, meet Sil or Lalena, have a play and see what it’s all about.
Heal | Explore | Relate | Recover
One on One Arts Therapy
Individual Arts Psychotherapy is a powerful alternative to traditional talk therapy, giving potential to heal hurts and relationships and create positive change in our lives. Through working with Sil you’ll experience a relaxed pathway to your inner world and and find easy access to your inner wisdom.
Art therapy is a form of therapy that utilises artmaking through drawing, painting, clay modelling, and expressive therapies such as movement, dance or drama to explore, expand and evolve our behavours, throughts, and feelings, improving our physical, mental, emotional and spritual wellbeing.
Arts Therapy is for every body.
NO ART SKILLS ARE NECESSARY.
Sil caters to everyone from children to seniors, successfully working through issues such as:
- Reducing stress
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Grief
- Physical or mental ailments
- Relationship issues
- Identity issues
- Create positive change in your life
- and many more
Art Therapy is relaxing, soothing, insightful, and nurturing.
Group art therapy workshops
Whether you’re an organisation working in mental health or organising a private group, Create Therapy’s well equipped studio can cater for you. The huge 8m x 8m workspace and movement area with a large portion covered with soft dojo mats, makes for a comfortable place to be free with creativity and expression.
Skill building:
Relationship skills
Self
- Self knowledge
- Understanding how you “show up” in the world and how you are seen and received by others.
- Self acceptance
- Learning how to accept the things about you that you can’t change and thrive through them.
- Self kindness/love
- Developing a warm internal tone towards yourself.
- Recognising unhealthy self talk and attitudes and developing new, healthy ones.
- Developing healthy ways of treating and living in your body
- Self forgiveness
- Recognising and taking responsibility for actions and events that need forgiveness in some way and working through the forgiveness process.
- Self empowerment/autonomy
- Building confidence and resilience
- Working towards a high level of functionality in society
- Body sensory awareness
- Learning how to observe and triage body senses such as Hunger, pain, fear, anxiety, depression, grief, happiness, drive, habit, addiction, etc.
Family
- Understanding and improving relational skills with all family members.
- Understanding your unique place within your family.
Friends
- Developing empathy, non-judgmental acceptance and healthy assertiveness in social groups.
- Learning to recognise your place in your social groups.
- Learning how to relate effectively as a friend.
Partner
Learning what it takes to build a healthy intimate relationship
Community
- Learning how to communicate in society in a clear and effective way.
- Building awareness and empathy for others around you.
- Understanding, accepting and learning to enjoy cultural diversity
Communication skills
Verbal
- Learning non-globalising language
- Maintaining responsibility by learning how to use “I” language
- Building effective conflict resolution skills
Non-verbal
- Understanding body language.
- Learning how to implement effective body language.
Resiliency
- Developing a sense of belonging
- Recognising and accepting life challenges
- Building a sense of acceptance
- Building mental toughness with elements of optimism and hope
- Bringing back a sense of humour and fun.
Self knowledge
- Understanding how you “show up” in the world and how you are seen and received by others.
Emotional acceptance and growth
- Learning your emotional strengths and challenges and working with these
- Developing healthy expression of your emotions.
- Understanding the difference between emotions and thoughts.
Development of personal resources
- Expressive art skills
- Meditation
- Breathing techniques
- Embodiment exercises
- Etc
Personal goal setting
- Learning what’s ultimately important to you.
- Developing realistic goal-setting skills.
- Learning how to effectively work towards your goals.
Personal awareness and insight
- Recognising and working deeply with your inner wisdom and intuition.
- Learning to apply insights gained to relevant elements of life.
