Art Therapy Group Offerings

Details of upcoming Offerings…

'Heart Garden': Small group Art Therapy for children

coming again in 2025

Heart Garden is a small Art therapy group that provides opportunities for children aged 7-9 to engage within a social space in fun, nature-based activities and imaginative play. With a gentle, therapeutic approach, these sessions offer a delightful way to connect and collaborate with each other and the natural world, while promoting confidence and self-advocacy. Melinda invites participants to engage in creative discoveries and problem-solving that supports communication and emotional independence skills.

Each session offers an invitation to explore different themes using a range of materials and props to inspire improvisation and creative possibilities.

Children are invited to work together and navigate social spaces on their own terms through strength-based and affirming approaches. During each session, each child’s regulation and interoceptive awareness is supported through modelling and gentle therapeutic guidance.

Melinda fosters a safe and inclusive space for children to express themselves and is guided by neuro-divergent affirming principles and a trauma-informed approach that promotes healthy, emotional well-being.

These are small group sessions. Maximum 4 participants.

4:00-5:00 pm Tuesdays during school term.

Feb 4th – March 25 (no session on March 11)

7 weeks/ $340 per term

Private + NDIS funded participants welcome. Please contact me for all enrolment details.

Please note, as this is an Art therapy group, an intake form will be required to ascertain if this will be a suitable space for your child’s needs.

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Bilateral Drawing group for women

Starting weekly from January 14

Bilateral Drawing is a type of sensorimotor stimulation that activates both hemispheres of our brain and both sides of our body through drawing with both hands, eyes closed. It can be a space to access flow– to attend to our nervous system, to help process difficult interactions, feelings, emotions, memories. A space that we can create for ourselves to allow for integration of our experiences, thoughts, emotions, and body. To consider all of the things we’re learning, unlearning, feeling, experiencing, avoiding, holding.

It is an accessible way of getting out of our heads and finding the rhythms of breath, music, and movement and notice the sensations of the materials that we are holding and drawing with. This is a space to connect with our bodies, to invite them into an alternative kind of conversation through exploring rhythm, repetition & movement as resources for well-being and care.

No experience with art-making is required.

The sessions are 45 minutes, starting with a gentle guided, grounding practice and then using a prompt we move into drawing (with music).

The practice of Bilateral drawing challenges notions of both what it means to make art and what it can mean to take care of ourselves, personally & collectively.

TUESDAYS: 10 am, from January 14
WEDNESDAYS: 10 am, from January 15

Please get in contact if you are interested in joining any of these small group sessions.

Payment is $15 per person, pay as you go, or $55 for 4 sessions, paid in advance.

Limit of 4 people per session.

Nature-connection Studio sessions

...new details coming soon

Personal healing stemming from mindful immersion in nature using sensory experience combined with gentle and meaningful art-making, guided journalling and somatic practice.

Please contact me if you are interested in joining this group & would like to be added to the class list.

Sessions will be starting in late February/ March depending on numbers.