Mental health service blending the Creative Arts therapies with Equine Assisted Psychotherapy
09/10/2025
☀️We seem to have skipped Spring and gone straight to Summer. I’m offering early morning sessions as of next week. Join us in the paddock for a 7.30 session. The morning light is beautiful, the birds serenade us while the horses munch their morning hay.
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08/10/2025
The outcome of the Duckett review into Art Therapy is that Art Therapy continues to be an accepted therapeutic support for NDIS clients. It does not have to be listed specifically as a stated support, but the plan must have therapy supports stated.
Equine Assisted Therapy can also still be accessed through the NDIS as per the attached information. The provisions are that it must:
1. Be delivered by a qualified allied health professional
2. Forms part of a structured program with therapeutic goals
3. Aligns with one or more of your NDIS goals
4. Is considered reasonable and necessary.
As a Masters qualified Creative Arts Therapist I can offer clients Art Therapy sessions alongside Equine Assisted Therapy, the balance of which depends on your clients needs/abilities.
Sad to lose this beautiful human, RIP Jane and thank you for all you have done for the animal world❤️😢
A sad loss for the natural world, its wild inhabitants and humanity with the passing of Dr Jane Goodall today.
Dr Jane Goodall was a tireless advocate for the protection of nature and animals.
Her groundbreaking research started in Gombe National Park in Tanzania, in the 1960s, where she documented chimpanzees displaying individual personalities, emotions and complex social behaviours thought to be exclusive to humans.
While studying in the Tanzania forests, Jane also observed a chimpanzee, which became trusting of her, making and using tools to extract termites from a mound.
She named the chimpanzee David Greybeard.
The National Geographic Society sent a photographer-filmmaker into the forest to capture footage of the chimpanzee.
It subsequently revolutionized primatology and transformed how the world perceived not only humans' closest living biological relatives, but also the emotional and social complexity of all animals.
Jane went on to became a prominent scientist, conservationist and humanitarian.
She established the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 to protect chimpanzees and their habitats from deforestation.
Her advocacy for the protection of wild animals, extended to all domesticated animals too.
Only a few months ago she threw her support behind the UN’s first World Horse Day and was quoted saying: “World Horse Day is not just a celebration - it's a call to protect one of humanity's oldest partnerships."
She routinely referred to her love for horses and said she spent every spare moment of her childhood on a horse, while dreaming of studying wild animals in Africa.
An inspiration to many, who lived and breathed the interconnectedness between animals, humans and nature.
Spa day, tails were washed and trimmed, winter coat brushed out, hosed down and then a roll in the dirt(!) to finish off❤️🐴
11/09/2025
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10/09/2025
Zeke is finding his calling as a Reiki support pony, he just loves it❤️
09/09/2025
Reflections ❤️
07/09/2025
New workshop coming up. For more info visit:www.equilibriumtherapiesaustralia.com.au/wildedgeofsorrowretreat
07/09/2025
Wherever grief comes from, loss of a loved one, life transitions (menopause, empty nest, divorce etc.), ancestral grief or the sorrows of the world, it's based in love. I am offering a day of honouring that love and thereby honouring the loss, in a safe space, shared with a small group and the therapy herd.
Learn more: https://wix.to/k5ezLbv
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.I do know how to pay attention, how to fall downinto the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,which is what I have been doing all day.Tell me, what else should I have done?Doesn't everything die at la...
29/08/2025
Zeke has become a wonderful helper, mainly because he’s so nosey! Whether it’s helping give meds, the farrier, vet or a Reiki session, he has to be part of the action🤣
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I have been working as a Creative Arts Therapist for some eight years now, and have just completed seven years of teaching Creative Arts Psychotherapy at the Ikon Institute in Brisbane.
I have had an interest in Equine Assisted Therapy for some years now and was excited to find and enrol in a course that commenced in South East Queensland two years ago. I have completed my study with Equine Assisted Therapy Australia at Tallebudgera and now integrate this with my Creative Arts Therapy and mental health qualifications to provide an holistic balance for healing and transformation.
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy is a unique approach to psychotherapy where clients are offered safe experiences with horses for the purpose of exploring new ways of connecting in relationships and building self-awareness and trust.
Art psychotherapy uses visual art-making (for example: collage, sculpture, masks and painting) within a therapeutic relationship to explore and make sense of thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
Both Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Art Psychotherapy are experiential forms of therapy that can help develop new neural pathways to facilitate behavioural and cognitive change .
I work with two horses at Tamborine, near Logan Village, just 15 minutes from the M1, with clients of all ages, including those covered by the NDIS. I also facilitate group workshops for many different group demographics.