Chrissie's Creative Arts Therapy

17/05/2026

Mindfulness is a simple yet powerful tool I often draw on within arts therapy sessions to help clients feel more grounded, present, and connected to themselves.

When stress, anxiety, trauma responses, or overwhelm show up, slowing down and noticing the present moment can help regulate the nervous system and create a sense of safety.

This practice is a gentle starting point you can use anytime you need to pause and reconnect.

In arts therapy, mindfulness can also support creative expression; helping you tune into emotions, thoughts, and sensations before exploring them through art-making.

Healing doesn’t always begin with words. Sometimes it begins with simply noticing your breath.

If you’re curious about Arts Therapy or looking for support, feel free to reach out via message or my website (found in bio).

Follow my page for more on my evidence based, mindfulness and nervous system regulation series.

Keeping It Real, with Chrissie's Creative Therapies (ANZACATA, ACA, CWA - NDIS, MAC, VOCAT/FAS, EAP, EAF).

06/05/2026

The pace of modern life can keep our nervous systems in a constant state of “go, go, go.”

Notifications. Traffic. Deadlines. Noise. Racing thoughts that follow us right into bed.

Sometimes healing isn’t about forcing your mind to be quiet; it’s about finding environments that naturally support slowing down.

Nature offers that.

The slower pace, sensory grounding, fresh air, movement, and quiet can help create space to reconnect with yourself.

When combined with creative expression through Art Therapy, this can become a powerful way to process emotions, reduce stress, and return to the present moment

Healing doesn’t always happen in fluorescent rooms.
Sometimes it begins under trees.

05/05/2026

Living with chronic illness, burnout, or disabilities is often a long, unseen journey of gradual loss before any sense of return.

Energy, identity, relationships, and the rhythm of life can slowly shift; sometimes over years, into something unrecognisable.

Yet, even in that space, something quietly continues.
A turning inward.
A re-meeting of self.
A different kind of becoming.

Healing is not linear, and it looks different for everyone. For me, it unfolded over years of burnout and chronic illness; through withdrawal from unsustainable environments, and slowly creating space for parts of myself to return, while others emerged anew.

There are still hard days; but there are also moments of light, meaning, and small return.

My hope is to honour those navigating long uncertainty: there is often isolation before reconnection, grief before growth; but also, still, hope in the inbetween.

I invite you to book a Free 15min intro session to find out more about how my Arts Therapy sessions can support your healing journey. Bookings via my contact details in bio or Linktree.

Reel features my creative piece; 'Emerging from the Shadows', Monoprint with black ink, 25 x 33cm, and Poetic form.

03/05/2026

Nature can be a powerful therapeutic & healing space, alongside my guidance as a Qualified Arts Therapist & Counsellor.

Outdoor Arts Therapy sessions may support:
✔stress reduction
✔ emotional regulation
✔ physical healing (nervous system)
✔ mindfulness
✔ self-expression
✔ confidence building

A calming alternative for those who find traditional therapy settings overwhelming.

Now offering Arts Therapy sessions across Melbourne & Geelong (mobile service) and in Point Cook (main practice).

Book via Chrissie's Creative Therapies website or email in bio.

25/04/2026

Chrissie's Creative Therapies is a trauma-informed, neuro-affirming practice, focused on healing through creative expression and somatic therapy; which involves visual arts, movement, instruments, meditation, mindfulness practice and nature.

I provide support for women, neurodivergent people & those navigating trauma or systemic stress.

Boookings now open - submit your details via my 'Contact' page to connect: https://lnkd.in/gn2UmUe8

Service catchment: Point Cook Practice, Mobile across Melbourne & Geelong, Online Australia wide.

"Keeping it Real", Chrissie 🙏💚

17/04/2026

16/04/2026

What if the key to better mental health, clearer decisions, and stronger relationships wasn’t talking more; but creating more?

Many people ask me what art therapy is and how it can improve mental health, decision making, relationships and other life challenges?

The below research link expands on this and I've included a snippet as follows:

"Art therapy is used most commonly to treat mental illnesses and can aid in controlling manifestations correlated with psychosocially challenging behaviours, slowing cognitive decline, and enhancing the quality of life.

Art therapy can help people express themselves more freely, improve their mental health, and improve interpersonal relationships. The basis of art therapy is established on the idea that people can recover and feel better via artistic expression."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9472646/

Keeping it real, with Chrissies Creative Therapies. DM me to make a booking today.

15/04/2026

What if your body is holding what your mind rejects?

Arts Therapy isn’t about art,
it’s about using the materials
to express parts of you that are hidden;
your subconscious side.

When you think about stress & trauma,
it's predominantly stored in your body,
your sensory memory;
which is linked with your subconscious mind.

Although a lot of memories are stored in
our pre-frontal cortex;
the rational part of our brain;
our thinking brain often suppresses
trauma & stress as a natural
protective mechanism.

When you use your body through Arts Therapy,
& not just visual arts; So using your body through
dance, sound, music, singing, materials & meditation;
there's a lot of movement in general.

Through these forms of expression,
you're often moving parts of your body
that you don't usually move;
especially with a large canvas.

This can process some of your trauma & stress,
without even realising it.
With Arts Therapy, the idea is to try
& remove your thinking brain as much as possible.

So when you’re creating during my sessions,
try not to think about the structure
of what you're creating.

I encourage and guide you to create
in the moment based on themes
relevant to your life narrative.

It's not about creating beautiful art,
but allowing your body to guide,
as your creation mirrors your internal self.
Together we reflect on this process to see what emerges,
as a guide to raising awareness & evoking change.

I invite you to send me a message to find out more
about how Arts Therapy & my services can help you.

I’m Chrissie from Chrissie's Creative Therapies – Keeping it real.

11/04/2026

In this Chrissie's Creative Therapies workshop we explored our innerselves by embodying parts of us into our creation of trees, & thinking about,

"How would I appear if I were a tree?".

With my guidance as a qualified Arts Therapist, & reflexivity together, participants were able to notice the hidden parts of themselves emerge from their expressions.

Essentially, their trees created spontaneously, mirrored back to them, "what lies within & externally".

“In art-based therapy groups, clients are able to explore themselves and their relationships by looking through the lens of their partners-peers, art processes, and products” (Moon, 2016).

Offering Individual & Group Arts Therapy sessions in Point Cook, Mobile across Melbourne & Online accross Australia. Booking via the 'contact us' pg on my website, or submit your interest in upcoming workshops via the 'express interest' section under the 'services' pg.

"Keeping It Real", with Chrissie's Creative Therapies.

04/04/2026

A great night of Poetry, Arts Therapy and Creative writing at Café Philosophique. It was a pleasure to facilitate an Arts Therapy session with this fabulous group, who meet monthly at Werribee Bridge Hotel. I hope to see you all there this month! 🙏💚

02/04/2026

What we notice in our external world often mirrors our deeper internal self, hidden; but, hovering at the surface… almost like its trying to come up for air.

Have you ever noticed a pattern when you’ve frequently run out of petrol, phone battery, time, or pantry items more than usual?

Reflecting on these experiences, may lead you to recognise that you’ve been running low in energy, wellness, self-regulation, & patience…

Overlooking these gradual shifts taking place over time, are a result of living on auto-pilot & suppressing parts of self.

When we rush through life, we miss these important cues, & over time, the cumulative impact becomes more apparent.

The toll then takes longer to repair, just like the effort required to walk to the petrol station with an empty can to refuel your empty tank.

This is the result of your car running on empty until it ceases to function.

Applying curiosity to these everyday moments, using mindfulness practice & Arts Therapy approaches, helps us slow down & explore the world around us.

During Arts Therapy sessions, we explore what stands out for you, express it through multimodal arts, & reflect on these creations together.

As you discover the story behind what is noticed & created, you find new ways of being & create healthy shifts through these same Arts Therapy processes.

Keeping it real with Chrissies Creative Therapies