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The Greenhouse Therapies

Art Therapy and Mental Health service providing support to children, adults, families and groups

07/01/2026

🌿 WE’RE BACK FOR 2026 🌿

That between-celebration-days and the lull of day/time/out-of-routine feeling is REAL! But we are here 🥳

Looking forward to reconnecting with familiar faces, meeting new ones and getting to offer more creative therapies in the Ipswich region and beyond this year!

Here is to a new year and getting into the rhythm of it all 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️

31/12/2025

2025 in review

🌿 Went from commercial shell shop to an intentionally designed private practice space.
🌿 Saw and met some incredible thinkers in the field. Shared some of these moments with dear peers.
🌿 Hosted 4 events and a workshop.
🌿 Did some PD both locally and interstate.
🌿 Continued to advocate for art and play therapy in the NDIS.
🌿 Nominated twice for inclusive and therapeutic services in the Ipswich area.
🌿 Completed requirements to become a registered Play Therapist with APTA.

Had some laughs, tears, wins and many body check-ins along the way. Closing the year with gratitude and a smile.

Here is to a new year, new rhythms and new faces/places/spaces to connect with!!!

Time to Notice and Nurture before we come back on board early January 2026.

02/12/2025

International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD)

As of 2022, there are 5.5 million Australians with disability, representing 21.4 per cent of the population, an increase from 17.7 per cent in 2018. [ 1 ]

This year we are highlighting the chosen theme “Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress”.

To do this, we are aware that work needs to be done to:

🧸 Take away barriers that stop people with disability from joining in.
🧸 Make sure people with disability have the same chances as others.
🧸 Have health care (including mental health) and equitable education that everyone can use.
🧸 Include people with disability in all parts of life.

We also need to understand people with disability face higher risks of vulnerability. Disability can affect a person’s capacity to work and earn an income with average wages reported at $575p/w compared to able workers on average earning $1055 p/w. [ 1 ]

24.7 percent of PwD have mental health or behavioural differences as their primary listed disability. [ 1 ]

Almost one in five young people with disability aged 15-34 years (17.6 per cent) experienced discrimination, compared with 3.9 per cent of those aged 65 years and over. [ 1 ]

LGBTQIA+ people with disability were almost three times more likely to experience discrimination compared with heterosexual people with disability (27.7 per cent compared with 8.7 per cent). [ 1 ]

There are significant barriers and challenges, yes. However being committed to improving policies, services, systems and supports that assist people with disability to overcome discrimination and promote inclusion takes all of us.
It also means including people with disabilities in the rooms and conversations where change happens.

Because “Nothing About Us, Without Us”.

[ 1 ] Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2022). Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia: Summary of Findings. https://abs.gov.au. accessed 2 December 2025.

07/11/2025

🌿🌸 BOTANICAL PRINTING 🌿🌸

Spending the time this morning in a workshop run by and getting to mindfully observe and interact with foraged nature pieces, highlighting their unique patterns and textures with ink on paper.

Patterns began forming maps of each decision, act of touch, placement choice and acceptance of the imprint present in both positive and negative spaces. Pausing to breathe, slow down, “smell the flowers” and allowing the foliage to caress my cheeks with closed eyes and an open mind.

18/10/2025

OUR GALLERY OF RIGHTS!

A day to come in and have a look what we do, make some art around things that are meaningful to you and find out how we advocate and celebrate the UNCRC Rights of the Child!

15/10/2025

CHILDRENS WEEK 2025 - “Our Gallery of Rights” event

🗓️ WHEN: Saturday 18 October 2025

⏰ TIME: 10am - 2pm

📍 WHERE: The Greenhouse Therapies, Tulmur Walk, Nicholas Street Precinct, 8 Nicholas Street, Ipswich QLD 4305

Based around UNCRC Article 42: “Everyone should know about children’s rights” and in partnership with

14/10/2025

“Winnie” is our newest friend to come to the Greenhouse and today she got to orient around the space and meet some special people who came in today as well.

Winnie means “gentle friend”, “joy” and “friend of peace”. She will live up to her name we are sure!

10/09/2025

WORLD SU***DE PREVENTION DAY ☁️ 10 SEPT

Every chat, no matter how small, builds a more supportive and understanding society.

It takes courage to ask for help and we want to honour that.

It takes compassion to offer help and shift from a culture of silence and stigma to that of understanding and meaningful support.

It impacts us all. It takes all of us to change the narratives around su***de, prevention, education, action, hope and supporting those who have experienced loss through or survived su***de.

25/08/2025

INTERNATIONAL CHILDHOOD TRAUMA CONFERENCE 2025 (NAARM)

- A place to discuss topics related to children and the challenges they face in feeling safe, heard and understood through trauma informed practices and approaches -

1. Alyce with Deb Dana () with her contributions around rhythms of regulation and use of Polyvagal Theory. Personal take away was re-storying through movement and titrating worries from ‘regulated’ sympathetic states into ventral state.
2. Morning sunrises from my room. I am often known as a “night owl” and so with the winter darkness prolonging morning light a bit longer, being able to see sunrise without an alarm (or children) to rouse me, felt like a small gift.
3. A symposium on therapeutic out-of-home care- panel included: Dan Hughes, Jon Baylin, Kelly Royds (Executive Director, Knowledge Mobilisation & Practice - ), Kim Golding, Lynne McPherson (Chair, Out Of Home Care, Research - Southern Cross University), Kylie Day (Indigenous Knowledge Lecturer - Southern Cross University), carers and young people with experience of OOHC. Take away for me was the power of having consistent support in therapeutic care models and hearing positive experiences from young people whose care arrangement is safe and suitable.
4. Walking into for the first time and getting registration done. Finding the resource area and grateful for extra luggage I got 📚🙊
5. Informal conversation hour with Janise Mitchell from and . My anticipation for the week ahead went full throttle!! I attended Cathy’s “Neurodiversity Affirming Practices and Expressive Arts” keynote and the room was packed with eagerness to learn, Be S.A.G.E, move and be in synchrony together.
6. A “found-parts” playground in Southbank which I adore! Seeing healthy risk taking and reusing materials to create play in the middle of the city 🙌
7. Exploration of contextual aspects of DDP interventions in the advanced masterclass with Jon Baylin, Dan Hughes and Kim Golding. Appreciating the review and consideration around cultural contexts and differences Kim brought to the conversation.

(FURTHER REFLECTIONS IN THE COMMENTS 🫶🏼🙌💡🌀)

24/08/2025

MUSIC, RHYTHM AND SOUND

Music can help us reset. Music, rhythm, and sound aren’t just entertainment—they’re tools to guide your brain into a regulated, focused, connected and/or flow state. 🌊🎶

Sound and rhythm can quiet the noise of anxiety and help your brain fully engage in the present moment. Sound can be healing.

highlights that sound as an arts-based healing practice can be used to re-experience oneself, resensitise the body to healthy embodied experiences of enlivenment and reconnect people in prosocial and relational experiences (pg. 63 Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy).

“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more – it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.” Oliver Sacks

Sound can find places in our sensory systems where words cannot. It can be a powerful way to express, to tell story, to call/respond, to use imagination and to connect back to ourselves.

19/08/2025

SUPPORTING LOCAL BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY

We got an opportunity to spend some time in the chambers with and to celebrate ICC’s recommitment to supporting small businesses in Ipswich/Tulmur. Discussions around community benefit, service access, employment, innovation and development, grant applications, strengthened economic value and local business identity were had.

We are excited to continue to build connections and partnerships with some great people in this area who have a genuine interest to offer local products and services to our community!

Address

Tulmur Walk, 8 Nicholas Street
Ipswich, QLD
4305

Opening Hours

Thursday	9am - 5:30pm
Friday	1pm - 5pm

Telephone

+61493759401

Website

http://linktr.ee/thegreenhousetherapies

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