BA (Art) (Hons)MA (Art Therapy)

Research:

Having many years experience as a visual artist, performer and writer in WA and the Eastern States I’ve taught art in prisons, schools, universities and other community based settings. I was drawn to the world of Art Psychotherapy through my research training in Melbourne (Body Voice Projects and Imagery to Action Dance Group) and a long involvement with Jungian analysis.

Activities:

My work with pre-adolescent children embedded with dreadful early experiences and adults who have endured mental illness for many years has made me wonder about the idea of aesthetics within the psychotherapeutic dyad. I am keen to research further this possibility that artfulness plays a role in such a relationship. It is not so much the making of art in therapy but the artfulness of therapy that drives me to explore more deeply the nature of the primitive, somatic responses to therapeutic engagement and the oceanic underworld of all that can’t be spoken of.

Teaching:

As well as lecturing with the Counselling Program I am Placement Coordinator for the Art and Drama Therapy Program at Edith Cowan University and have a private practice in psychotherapy.