About Melinda

Melinda’s expertise as an art therapist emerges from over 25 years as a visual artist and Arts educator. She holds a Master’s Degree in Therapeutic art practice and is a registered art therapist with ANZACATA, the peak professional body representing creative arts therapists in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia/Pacific region.

Melinda has extensive experience teaching creative Arts to children and young people, and for many years worked in juvenile justice as a therapeutic art teacher.Her approach is strongly grounded in trauma-informed care, neuro-affirming and culturally responsive practice. She has a growing interest in attachment theory, family systems and trauma-informed sensorimotor art therapy practices. 

Her own love of being in the natural world, of finding connection to the animate other-than-human world, through walking, contemplative practice, somatic movement, 5-rhythms dancing and her own professional art practice, is woven through the empowering and healing work she undertakes with others as a creative arts therapist.