The Tui and the Morepork: Art and Therapy

08/04/2025

I've moved back to my hometown of Feilding! Working as an arts therapist from a cute cabin in my back yard. Not teaching yoga anymore, but still doing personalised intuitive artworks. Contact me for more details!

23/12/2024

05/11/2024

https://www.findingwellbeing.art/post/art-class-or-art-therapy

Participation in the arts comes in many forms. This blog shall attempt to explore some of the differences between Art Therapy, “art-as-therapy” and art classes and better define what Art Therapy is. My aim is not intended to promote one over the other; instead, I believe that each form holds a u...

14/08/2024

Between childhood and adulthood, people I see often forget how to be creative, to be free from self-criticism and shame.

01/07/2024

Why feeling all our emotions is important

The major lesson that I have learned from people I’ve served in the last fifteen years as a trauma specialist is that our feelings are not the problem. Everything we do to keep from feeling our feelings and experiencing our emotions—even the dark and heavy ones—is the real problem.

31/05/2024

In my mahi there's often an unspoken expectation that I will fix people, remove "bad" emotions, restore them to a constant state of happiness. Even though the ripples of feeling move through and around me, I can still see myself as an imperfect, fully human be-ing.

19/05/2024

Please hold on. The world is a better place with you in it.

03/05/2024

My new arts therapy room is ready!

21/04/2024

This is me. I hide behind laughter. It's taken me a long time to be serious about my feelings. Thanks to everyone who had the patience and acceptance to enable me to be honest.