Heartwood Arts Therapy

08/08/2025

As of this coming week, heartwoodarts.nz will no longer be active. For all future correspondence and news, check out my new website - www.rachelheartwood.com or email me at admin@rachelheartwood.com

Mwah!

13/11/2024

I'm launching my new business!
https://www.facebook.com/adultautismcoach
My creative arts therapy business has expanded beyond it's original intentions, and so I needed a new framework to encompass all of the new yummy neurodiversity-affirming consulting and coaching I've started offering.
I'd really appreciate y'all giving it a like, as I will be winding down my Heartwood Arts Therapy page over the next few months and focusing just on my shiny new business-baby.
Yay for rainbows! Yay for newness! Yay for a bigger challenge!

An Autistic creative arts professional providing coaching/consulting for late-diagnosed Autistics.

26/01/2024

BIG NEWS!
I am happy to share that I am now specialising in supporting neurominorities, seeing the vital importance right now of giving neurodivergent people a voice away from the medical model that only looks at their 'disorder'. There is so much beauty, creativity, skill and talent in those with autism, ADHD, the four Ds and more, yet is so often misunderstood.

Therapy also requires a neurodiverse-affirming approach in order for it to be successful (and not do damage), so it is important if you are neurodivergent to find the right therapy for you that matches your way of experiencing the world.

And remember, you are not a failed horse, but a beautiful zebra :)

01/07/2023

By far one of the best videos on the healing of the wounded masculine I've ever seen. Honest, vulnerable, strong, and able to hold the wisdom of trauma not being one's fault but healing it being one's responsibility. Give it a watch!

Matt Brown started his barbershop in a tin shed in his backyard in New Zealand, but he always wanted it to be more than just a place where you go to get a ha...

06/08/2022

Yeeeees this.

21/07/2022

Thrilled to have done an eco-arts therapy workshop today at The Cancer Society. We had great fun make safe spaces out of natural materials that can now be placed out in nature for the mice and birds to enjoy. Love this job ❤

22/06/2022

I am thrilled to announce that from a week today (Wednesday 29th June) I'll be practicing on Wednesday's and Thursday's from the Loveday Clinic in Nelson (17 Collingwood Street). Even more exciting is that I'm sharing space with these beauties! My books are open to take on new clients so get in touch if you're in the Nelson area!

Holistic Health Services - Nelson Wellness Space

14/06/2022

Joyful news! I am now registered with the I Am Hope foundation, offering free therapy sessions through the Gumboot Friday initiative.

With this I can offer two introductory/urgent arts therapy sessions for youth and children (in fact, anyone aged under 25 years). If this is of interest to you, please get in touch and we can chat through the simple process to get you or your child the support you need.

Message or email rachel@heartwoodarts.nz

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