Papernook Arts Therapy & Wellness

17/07/2025

It’s good to be back. We had a busy little round table this week. In fact, 90% of the time this is what our wise old table holds.. the experimenting, tinkering, mixing, mess, paint and off cuts, and so many experiences and stories. Creating is as much of a process as the therapy.

Contact us for new appointments opening up from next week of a Wednesday and Friday ✨

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08/07/2025

🌸 CREATIVE WELLNESS FOR MUMS

We’re gearing up for another exciting term with .mamas 🫶 Starts 17 July!

Take time out for you ~ 1 hour per week. Relax with gentle connection and art making alongside other mums. Bring your bubbies or get a hand while you attend, the choice is yours!

• 10 week program
• Running weekly Thursday
• All creative materials and coffee supplied

Last spots! Register now .mamas - modernmamasgroup.com.au/create-and-sip

25/06/2025

Description: Sunsets and strokes. Take me to the beach 🏝️ Client art shared with special permission.

Art making: Acrylic paint on canvas.

Our therapeutic work lies in the layers, the mixing, the blending and fine detail. We talk, we paint. Regulating while reflecting. It’s a process. Stepping back, feeling pride and accomplishment ☀️

22/06/2025

Description: Hey 👋 from our little team. Jasmine (left) and Chloe (right).

The latest Price Guide was released this week. Arts Therapy continues to be a funded therapeutic support with no changes from 1 July. HOORAY! 🎉

Of note, Art Therapist is classified as ‘a person who is a Professional Member with the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapy Association.’ We are proudly operating as Professional Members with which requires Masters Degree qualification and numerous ongoing requirements to maintain registration.

While we continue to support NDIS participants, we are seeing on the ground a very unpredictable story at review times. Much kindness to those who are being significantly impacted ❤️

12/06/2025

This wall will never cease to get us excited 🌈

09/06/2025

Description: In the heart of hearts 💛

Exercise: taking time to slow down, be present and notice (in nature). I actually found a little cluster of beetle eggs on the underneath of this leaf. Noticing the changes of winter 🍁🪲

05/06/2025

Description: Rising to meet what’s needed of me. The energy ‘to be’ and keep on going.

Art making: Soft pastels blended on paper.

04/06/2025

In case you missed it, here it is again 🤗

If you are in need of a short guided relaxation - one that doesn’t involve counting breaths - this could be for you. All that is needed:
🌼 A quiet space
🌼 10 mins
🌼 Your favourite scented hand cream
🌼 Favourite the link and return whenever you need to for a moment of grounding

I don’t often get behind camera 😅

Jasmine from Papernook Arts Therapy offers a guided practice using hand cream to support regulated breathing and embodied engagement to improve mindfulness.

04/06/2025

We had some very special ‘unexpected’ visitors at Papernook today 🥕🤗

It’s not everyday you get a guinea pig visit! Our new friends got to see what Arts Therapy is all about and even part-take a little. Thanks to their owner for sharing this joyous day moment with us and giving permission to share with all of you 💕

04/04/2025

Arts Therapy services for NDIS participants is still funded under current arrangements. Please refer to information below regarding latest detail if you are experiencing difficulties with payment of invoices:

1) The latest NDIS provider support newsletter released 19 March included an update on Arts Therapy, stating "If you are a plan manager dealing with art and music therapy supports, we want to confirm that there are no changes to what participants and providers can claim for these supports under the NDIS".

2) You can refer to the latest public announcement that the Independent review has been delayed and services continue as normal - Link https://www.ndis.gov.au/news/10644-review-music-and-art-therapy-update

3) ANZACATA (professional body for Arts Therapists) have prepared a one-pager outlining how to check invoices from Arts Therapists.

The independent review into NDIS pricing for music and art supports is being extended to allow time to appropriately consider all submissions.

25/01/2025

F R I E N D S 🐶
Hey. Let’s be friends. Ok. Cool. Can I share something with you? Yeh, of course.

15/01/2025

O F F C U T S ✂️
When you sit down to create art, to help express and it becomes more about the discarded.

Feeling a sense of disorganised, unfinished, unsettling … something 🤷‍♀️ Looking over at my pile for the bin. Leaning into that discomfort of situations that can’t be made sense of yet.