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Erin McCrorey PACFA Reg.Certified Practising 29538

18/12/2025

My last day of arts therapy for 2025 brings wishes of peace, love, joy and hope to all. May you be safe these coming weeks - looking forward to seeing everyone again in the new year. ☀️🤍💚❤️🌊

14/12/2025

I’m honoured to have been part of - and to now share forward - the newly released short film documenting the 2025 Creative Mental Health Forum & Collective Care Retreat.

While we all come together as a collective, this event and documentary are created by the wonderful Dr Carla van Laar Creative Arts Therapy. So many of us - attendees and wider community alike - are deeply grateful for her vision, care, and dedication in creating this incredibly important (and not-to-be-missed) experience.
Thankyou Carla - we love you so much 💜

🎬 You can watch the film online for free here:
[https://vimeo.com/1145850756?fbclid=IwVERDUAOqqJFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4S4tGOGQUos_PwdrC9w791IPsg6dKlXJxR-2c0ZX_86v_mPTPqY_3gQzcfZQ_aem_mZmug3ITRqKnTvfrRrqKOQ](https://vimeo.com/1145850756?fbclid=IwVERDUAOqqJFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4S4tGOGQUos_PwdrC9w791IPsg6dKlXJxR-2c0ZX_86v_mPTPqY_3gQzcfZQ_aem_mZmug3ITRqKnTvfrRrqKOQ)
Massive thanks and credit also go to Dan O'Halloran for his photography, videography and supportive and encouraging interviewing style - I was nervous! 🙏🏼🩵

This marked the 5th year of this extraordinary four day gathering, held on Bunnerong (BoonWurrung) Country of the Yowengarra people in Inverloch. I am also deeply grateful to Aunty Sonia Louise Weston, who every year welcomes us with such generosity - sharing her wisdom about connection, community, relationship, caring for one another and for this beautiful place.
Thankyou Sis for everything - knowing you and learning from you has made my passion for creativity, for nature and for the power of this work even more meaningful 💚

If you’re curious about the Creative Mental Health Forum, collective community care, and the inspiring work happening across our industry, I encourage you to enjoy this special film (just over 30 minutes).

I was fortunate to present a natural fibres weaving workshop at this year’s forum, and some colleagues and I are interviewed throughout the film where I speak briefly about my practice too.

I hope you enjoy this glimpse into the world of Creative and Experiential Therapies - my wonderful community of caring professionals.
✨️👁🩷🌿🎭🎨🕺🏻🌊🖍🎶

Please… enjoy watching.
Erin 🫶🏼

Filmed on BoonWurrung Country, Inverloch, Australia This documentary shares stories from the fifth annual Creative Mental Health Forum — a four-day gathering…

06/12/2025

This is an incredibly meaningful step during this important time of reform within the mental health system. I am very proud to be a PACFA registered Creative Arts Therapist and certified practicing counsellor.

Advocating for counsellors and psychotherapists, PACFA CEO Johanna de Wever has outlined in GP publication The Medical Republic why the new National Standards for Counsellors and Psychotherapists are a game-changer for GPs, clients, and the broader mental health system.

With the government’s endorsement of these standards, GPs can now refer to PACFA-registered counsellors and psychotherapists with greater confidence, knowing they meet nationally recognised benchmarks in training, supervision, ethics and professional development.

A large share of mild-to-moderate presentations can be effectively supported by PACFA-registered counsellors and psychotherapists—helping reduce wait times, improving access to timely care, and freeing psychologists and psychiatrists to focus on those with more complex needs.

This is a meaningful step toward a more responsive, efficient and equitable mental health system.

https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/new-national-standards-for-counsellors-and-psychotherapists-what-they-mean-to-gps/121827

19/11/2025

In a Creative Arts Therapy session with me, you’re invited to choose the materials that speak to you. With a range of possibilities, your creative process becomes uniquely yours - grounded in your strengths, abilities, and sense of choice. Materials could include clay, collage, paint, pastel, creative writing, weaving, drawing....and more. Today, a range of materials were explored to create responses to different styles of music.
The artworks pictured are some of my own creative responses 🐘🎶🌳🔥☁️🌦
What would you like to explore?

01/11/2025

Home Harvests - I am delighted to be offering natural fibres bookings, at your place!

There is something special about harvesting and weaving from your own home grown plants - its a mindful part of the process which I delight in.

Would you like to harvest and dry your own fibres too but just don't know where to start? For a small fee (and perhaps a cup of tea) I'd be happy to guide you on what's growing in your own garden, how and when to harvest, and on preparing/drying your fibres for weaving and other creative projects.

'Home Harvest' garden visits from Erin - $30 per hour.
(bookings in Timbuktu may have an added travel fee - but I'm sure we can work it out 😘)

If you would like me to visit for a 'Home Harvest' booking, please give me a call for a chat and to arrange a day and time.

💛Erry 🌿

13/09/2025

Yesterday I had a delightful day with Carla from Inverloch Pop-Up ARTCO, in the Green Art Cube in Leongatha ✨️💚🎨

05/09/2025

Some years ago, Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart, attended a mental health incident with a colleague where they supported someone in crisis.

As a thank you, that person painted portraits of both officers. In this photo, Vadim can be seen proudly holding the artwork. We think you’ll agree it’s a pretty great painting. 🎨💙

This moment was shared with us by Vadim’s former colleagues at St Kilda. It’s a small but powerful reminder of the quiet, positive impact our members have in the community every day – often without recognition or expectation.

It’s through gestures like these that we remember Vadim as someone who devoted his career to helping others.

Today we farewell Vadim and honour the lasting impact of his service and dedication.

29/08/2025

Check this out! Workshop on this Sunday in Inverloch! 😍

05/08/2025

"Can you see me?......"

29/07/2025

For A Bit of Fun, can you guess who was today's JJJ Lunchtime Legend?
It was 'Erin the Creative Arts Therapist from Leongatha' of course. And what did she want to hear? None other than: Put Your Hands Up for Detroit ~ by Fedde le Grand. Yippeeeee!!! Thanks for the nation wide Arts Therapy Plug JJJ
https://open.spotify.com/track/2tyMOrVliF1wRnumVdcEwP?si=JInQC4yuSJqU93gGdRWYsg

Fedde Le Grand · Put Your Hands Up For Detroit · Song · 2006

15/07/2025

26/06/2025

WARM UP AND DISCOVER CREATIVE ARTS THERAPY
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY
CREATIVE ARTS THERAPY SESSION
(((🌬Winter School Holidays❄️)))

Curious about creative well-being?

Join me, Bachelor qualified Creative and Experiential Arts Therapist Erin McCrorey as I guide you through your own creative inquiry. Using a multi-modal and bottom-up approach, I would like to offer participants the opportunity to experience the power of their own creativity; to bring them into a state of mindful present awareness, enjoy a relaxed creative flow state, be spontaneous, move, play, express and connect.

•INDIVIDUAL
•SIBLING
•FAMILY OR
•FRIENDSHIP SESSIONS

Modalities may include:
Painting, drawing, clay, collage, weaving and creative writing.

Without having to verbally share any personal, emotional or raw content, I am offering this opportunity for participants of all abilities to experience a unique creative inquiry session that can bring about transformation through cultivation of the participants strengths, potentials, self-efficacy, self-awareness, hope, and connection - offering insight into what Creative and Experiential Arts Therapy sessions with me are all about.

When: Wednesday 16th July

Where: The Creative Wellness Studio Trafalgar

Sessions by appointment only:
1hr individ. creative inquiry - $80
1.5hr individ. creative inquiry - $100
Extra participants - $40 each

*all materials provided

If you would like to secure a creative exploration session for yourself or for a loved one, please contact Erin to book a suitable time and/or to discuss further:
https://intrinsicvaluearttherapy.weebly.com/creative-wellness-studio.html
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What is ‘Intrinsic Value’ all about?

Transpersonal Art Therapy!

IT IS NOT ABOUT MAKING ART THAT IS BEAUTIFUL... IT IS ABOUT SO MUCH MORE!

It is about making Art that is...

...It is "Soul Work"

Transpersonal (TP) Art Therapy may be seen as a cutting edge and alternative form of therapy, yet at the same time in its truest form it originates from some of the most ancient practices of self-healing which are thousands of years old. Quite simply, TP Therapy adopts a holistic and person-centered approach in which all aspects of the client’s world may be explored, including psychosocial aspects, mind, body, environment and primarily spirituality.

TP Art Therapy offers a specialised area of mental health and general well-being, it also serves as a complementary therapy to other support services, such as G.P’s, psychologists and other mental health professionals. It can help individuals achieve personal insight, raise self-awareness as well as find healing and is particularly helpful for those who have experienced depression, anxiety, reduced self-esteem, trauma, medical illness or social difficulties.

Participants are provided with an escape from the demands of the outside world where they can move into playful, spontaneous and creative forms of expression. A number of physical and mental health benefits can include relieving stress, improving sleep, alleviating depression and anxiety, increasing self-esteem and self-worth.

Above all else, TP Art Therapy provides a safe space and the opportunity to help with self-realisation, meaning making and purpose in life. The TP approach is a gentle, person-centred approach and it holds no religious orientation - which means it is accessible and adaptable to everyone. Art making in therapy is not just about drawing your feelings, the therapist is trained to lead you through the art making process in a therapeutic way. Participants may find themselves using a number of different art applications which could include painting, drawing, clay, art journaling, creative writing, movement and dance or making a mask or collage.

Transpersonal Art Therapist Accredited Qualified Member of the HTA INC: Holistic Therapists Australia. Studied at Phoenix Institute of Australia, leaders in holistic and transpersonal education.

A message from Erin: I am a Transpersonal Art Therapist and I'm excited to bring to the community an alternative approach to mental health and general lifestyle counseling. The Transpersonal approach is primarily a spiritual approach that combines healing modalities from both the East and West - largely influenced by the shamanic paradigm. Priding myself on my ability to meet at the level of a broad range of people through my non-judgmental attitude and warmth, I am passionate about creating healing through the use of alternative and creative processes including art, meditation and relaxation, movement and talking therapies. I am committed to providing support to people through whatever challenges they may be confronting by providing a safe space and the opportunity to help with self-realization, meaning making and purpose in life.