Yellow Gum Art Therapy Studio

20/10/2025

Alana, Josie, a helping friend and some movers spent most of the weekend packing, moving and sorting our furniture and materials from suite 5 to suite 2. We are really happy in our new room so far, a couple things still to sort but ready to begin again today! 💖

16/10/2025

✨We’re Moving - BUT not far! ✨
After a busy few months, we’re excited to share that Yellow Gum Art Therapy Studio is moving just a few doors down from Suite 5 to Suite 2 🌿

Same warm, creative space, just a refreshed home for our Finding Wellbeing team 💙
We’re open Monday to Saturday and continuing both studio and outreach sessions as usual.

Our new space officially opens this Monday, and we can’t wait to welcome you in for new beginnings (and a little makeover coming later in 2025 👀).

🐾 Evie has already approved the move!

📍 Mill Park, The Stables Shopping Centre
💻 www.findingwellbeing.art
📧 hello@yellowgum.art

30/08/2025

We are proud to be part of a diverse community. We stand firmly against bigotry, fascism, racism, sexism, transphobia, and all forms of hate. Our space is committed to respect, inclusivity, and kindness for everyone.

WCC recognises and celebrates the contribution of migrant and refugee communities who have contributed so much to the local community and enriched our lives in many ways. Racism and discrimination causes serious harm and has no place in Australia, as such, WCC reaffirms our commitment to people's right to live free from fear, discrimination and intimidation.

If you experience racism or discrimination and would like information and support please contact the Whittlesea Anti-Racism Support Service on 9401 6666 or eantonetti@whittleseacc.org.au

20/08/2025

🏠 A tiny world made with paper clay characters and a house built from plaster and cardboard, co-created by our art therapists alongside clients as they made their own mini figures.

In our studio, we offer space to build characters, explore identity, and create symbols with personal meaning, helping tell the story of our experiences in a way that feels safe and supported.

Using sculpture and play in therapy can allow clients to express emotions, relationships and inner worlds when words feel out of reach. It’s a process that’s self-directed, meaningful, and helps externalise our inner emotional world.

At Yellow Gum Art Therapy Studio, we support creative processes that help people feel seen, heard and empowered through making, not just talking.

18/08/2025

✨ Welcoming Grace to the team!
Grace Newnham (she/her) is a Registered Art Therapist and Counsellor now seeing clients at Yellow Gum Art Therapy Studio on Saturdays.

Grace brings experience supporting teens and adults with trauma, mental health challenges, and eating disorders, drawing from both her clinical training and peer practitioner work. With a background in the arts and a passion for authentic connection, Grace offers a warm, strengths-based and creative approach to mental health therapy.

We’re so excited to have her on board!

15/08/2025

🦄✨ Studio assistant Evie was in full unicorn mode this week, keeping warm and quietly holding space from her chair as the art therapy process unfolded.

Evie is such a loved part of Alana's counselling and art therapy sessions. Sometimes the simple presence of a therapy dog resting nearby and watching gently can be the co-regulation a client needs to feel safe enough to create, share or just be. 🐶

12/08/2025

Beads, wire, texture and choice.
Beading is one of the many creative regulation activities we offer in the studio. The focus and repetition can be calming, while the process itself often opens space for connection and conversation, especially for topics that may feel hard to talk about.

For some clients, beading may become more than just an activity in the therapy space. It can spark a new passion or even replace past negative coping behaviours with something that feels safe, expressive and self-directed.

There’s no right or wrong in our studio, just space to create, connect and be supported.

05/08/2025

🎨 Quiet moments in the studio before a full afternoon of sessions.
Today the table was set with colour, texture, craft ideas and a cup of tea, ready to welcome clients into a space where they can slow down, explore creatively, express themselves and process emotions with the support of their art therapist.

Therapy sessions at Yellow Gum Art Therapy Studio are all about choice, safety and connection.

We offer:
🌿 1:1 Art Therapy for children, teens and adults
🌿 Small group sessions for families and our Monday Crafternoon group for neurodivergent young adults
🌿 Fully funded NDIS services
🌿 Trauma-informed, neuro-affirming care
🌿 Studio-based sessions, outreach across Melbourne’s north and telehealth

31/07/2025

🦋 This bead-embroidered butterfly has been a long-term creative project that Alana, one of our art therapists, began a few years ago and only recently completed. It came together slowly, in spare time and during open studio art therapy sessions, especially when others were drawn to stitching, beading, or sewing projects of their own.

Like many things in life, it was slowly and gradually worked on, small steps at a time, and returned to with care, presence, and patience.

It’s a gentle reminder of the work we do together in therapy. Whether it’s using art for processing emotions, working on life goals or mental health recovery, we support clients to take things step by step, reflecting, healing, and building skills toward a better life.

30/07/2025

Part of trauma, whether it’s medical trauma, discrimination and stigma, or abuse, is the way it shapes our inner world. It can leave behind harsh internalised messages that echo long after the event. In art therapy we gently begin to notice, name, and rework those messages.

Starting with “I AM” at the centre, we reflect on the messages we most need right now: things we hope to believe about ourselves, truths we already know but forget, affirmations that once helped or still do, and words that speak to our worth, strength, and enoughness.

This isn’t about forced positivity. It’s about finding language that feels safe and true for you.

18/06/2025

Now Accepting New Clients - Term 3 (Starting July)
Art Therapy & Counselling - Mill Park & Surrounds

We’re a small, compassionate team of Masters-qualified Art Therapists, now offering new availability on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays.

We offer support for:

Disability and neurodivergence

Mental health challenges and psychosocial disability

Trauma and relational difficulties

Adults and children

Based at the warm and welcoming Yellow Gum Art Therapy Studio in Mill Park, with outreach services available across Melbourne’s inner and outer northern suburbs.

We’ve been a registered NDIS provider since 2019 and are committed to providing creative, trauma-informed care.

Referrals and enquiries welcome
Feel free to reach out or request a casual meet and greet with Alana to see if we might be the right fit for you or someone you support.

Now Accepting New Clients - Term 3 (July)
Art Therapy & Counselling - Mill Park & Surrounds

We’re a small, compassionate team of Masters-qualified Art Therapists offering support for:

Disability and neurodivergence

Mental health challenges and psychosocial disability

Trauma and relational difficulties

Adults and children

🌿 New availability on Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
🌿 Outreach options across the inner and outer northern suburbs
🌿 Based at the warm and welcoming Yellow Gum Art Therapy Studio - Mill Park
🌿 Afterhours and weekend appointments available
🌿 Registered NDIS Provider since 2019
🌿 Professional ANZACATA members, with some holding additional counselling registrations

Referrals and enquiries welcome
You’re welcome to request a no-pressure meet & greet with Alana to explore if we’re the right fit for you or someone you support.

19/03/2025

I Am Affirmation Collage ✨

Collage is a powerful process in Art Therapy. It helps us find images and words that resonate with our inner world. By choosing what speaks to us, we tap into our subconscious, express emotions, and connect more deeply with self.

This I Am collage is a simple yet meaningful way to affirm who we are. What words would you choose for yours?