Some experiences cannot be represented with language and this is where art therapy has its place.

When words are hard to find, art making can be either a symbolic jumping off point for speech to arise or for the work created to speak for itself.

What is specific to art therapy, is how art materials can generate neurological associations through tactile, sensory and perceptual inputs. For example, for some people, grey lead pencils on paper can quieten down a hyper-aroused nervous system, due to the dry, hard, colourless and often less-tactile nature of the material. On the other hand, wet clay can bring a person back into their body through the tactility and strong sensory properties of the medium.

Art therapy combines each individual’s unique relationship to words and creative expression as a way of finding self understanding.

I am an art therapist working with young people, from toddlers up to early adulthood.

Due to the subjective nature of art, I do not interpret artwork nor diagnose.

During sessions, I read the various modes of communication in the therapy: speech, gestures, silence and interactions with materials. This helps me guide what questions to follow with or what materials to offer. Meaning, linking and feeling is found by the individual.

As part of a wrap-around approach to art therapy, I engage in supervision with a senior art therapist and a Lacanian child psychoanalyst (talk-therapy).

Master of Mental Health Science - Child Psychotherapy
Monash University, 2025 - Ongoing

Master of Art Therapy
La Trobe University, 2019
My final thesis focused on the socio-political subject of autism and how this diagnosis enters the practice of art therapy with children.

Graduate Certificate in Publishing and Communications (Advanced)
University of Melbourne, 2024

Bachelor of Design
Monash University, 2011

Occupational First Aid - Adults, children and babies
St Johns Ambulance

Working with Children Check / Police Check

Professional member of ANZACATA (Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association)

As an art therapist I have worked at Merri Health with adults in group settings and individually. At the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, I have worked with children in the Nugel program as an outreach practitioner, liaising with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations. At La Trobe College, I was part of the wellbeing team, working individually with children and teenagers.

Prior to becoming an art therapist I worked closely, over long periods, within several families as a disability nanny and end-of-life carer. As well as these roles, I worked as a teachers aide at Collingwood College.

I have volunteered at the Sacred Heart Mission as a cook for the Choir of Hard Knocks, and at St Vincents Hospital in the neurology department with my dog, Ru, a trained pet therapist.

Currently I work in private practice and am available as an outreach practitioner to hospitals.

Please send me an email to arrange a time to speak over the phone. From there we can meet for a preliminary session and the person invited to art therapy can decide if they would like to continue. Parents are welcome to attend this initial session.

I am available to talk to parents throughout the therapy, while respecting your child’s privacy.

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Sessions can run up to 50 minutes.

All art materials are provided.

For sessions at TreeHaus, my fee is $140—$170.

For outreach sessions to hospitals, my fee is $180.

I work with self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants.

Some private health funds can provide rebates for art therapy.