Darwin Creative Therapy

Online PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISION

“Holding space for exploration, when images say what words cannot”

Welcome…

Darwin Creative Therapy specialises in providing Creative Arts Therapy by offering mobile and on-site services designed to provide therapeutic interventions within Schools, Agencies, and NGO’s. This service brings the expertise of a Registered Creative Arts Therapist & an Accredited Social Worker directly to the location of these organisations ensuring children, adolescents, adults, groups, communities have access to therapeutic support without the need to travel.

Mobile Creative Arts Therapy Creative Arts Therapist are mental health professionals who use creative arts approaches to help explore feelings.

Online Professional Supervision Providing supportive and reflective space alongside Social Workers, Counsellors and other Allied Health professionals.

Online Counselling Holding space for exploration in a humanistic & client centred approach. Creating therapeutic relationships in a safe space to feel into it.

Available as an NDIS provider to support participants who are self managed or have a plan manager, and available for fee for service clients!

Sarah Hogg is the practice owner at Darwin Creative Therapy, with over 15 years of experience working alongside clients to help slow down and feel into the arts through exploration with materials. Sarah has been part of the Territory community for over 20 years and is dedicated to supporting the mental health and well-being of individuals and families.

Please contact Sarah at darwincreativetherapy@gmail.com or 0408312943.

'Images say what words cannot'

'Listening and holding the silence'

'Slow down and feel into it'

'Holding space for exploration - client-centred'

'Images say what words cannot' 'Listening and holding the silence' 'Slow down and feel into it' 'Holding space for exploration - client-centred'

Creative Arts Therapy (ANZACATA)

What is Creative Arts Therapy?

A safe and confidential space to explore emotions and work through challenges
Facilitated by a Professionally trained Creative Arts Therapist.
A confidential alliance that fosters trust, openness, and collaboration.
Who can do this professional work?
Who can do this professional work?

Creative arts therapists are university trained in social work, counselling theories, and therapeutic techniques.
They understand human development, Mental Health issues, and the impact of Trauma.
What happens in a session?

Clients are invited to create artwork in response to prompts, feelings or themes discussed during the session.
Creative methods are the tools of therapy used in a supportive way.
There is no right or wrong way to make something.
The focus is on the process of the creating and expressing (not the quality of the art piece).
Whatever is created is used to help reflection and communication.

Exploration Through Creative Arts Therapy.

Creative Arts Therapists use creative processes to help clients explore and express unconscious material that is often difficult to articulate in words (ANZACATA). This approach provides a supportive space for clients to explore as creativity harnesses the imagination and a sense of play, and can help those to; learn to tolerate the uncertainty of the unknown, and, become more comfortable, to be able to improvise and open up to new possibilities in their lives.

SOURCE: http://anzacata.org./About-CAT

Therapeutic Arts - Using the arts to understand more of ourselves, our patterns and our experiences.

By moving our experiences through mark making, creating movement and inviting a sense of play and having fun. Through this process we can learn more about how we move through relationships. This opportunity in a safe space builds confidence, understanding, being seen and heard, and healing.

There is no right of wrong way when creating art, its about bringing a sense of play and curiosity. We are all creative!

"We can make art to find our way & through personal issues if that is our intention. Our images help us untie the knots in the threads of our unconscious."

Pat Allen
"Creative Arts Therapists are Mental Health Professionals who use Arts, Media and Creative approaches to help clients explore feelings, improve self-awareness and reduce anxiety."

Source: https://www.schools.vic.gov.au/arts-therapy
"...focus on the present moments..."

Shaun McNiff (2004)
“…as art makers we know that all modes are ways of giving form to and languing our embodied experiencing…”

The MIECAT Institute Inc.