Qualifications & Training

My practice is supported by postgraduate training in Creative Arts Therapy, ongoing clinical supervision, and continued professional development across trauma, neurodivergence, somatic and embodied practice, counselling and the creative arts.

Below is an overview of my qualifications, professional registrations and recent training, with a more detailed professional development history available for those interested.

Qualifications

  • Master of Therapeutic Arts Practice - The MIECAT Institute

  • Graduate Diploma of Therapeutic Arts Practice - The MIECAT Institute

  • Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Art Therapy - Phoenix Institute

  • Graduate Certificate in Arts Administration - RMIT University

  • Bachelor of Arts (Psychology and Media) - Swinburne University of Technology

Registration and checks

  • Arts Therapist Professional Membership (ANZCATA)

  • Certified Practising Counsellor (PACFA Reg. 32489)

  • General Member - Spiritual Care Australia

  • Public Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance

  • NDIS Worker Screening Clearance

  • First Aid Level 1

  • Working with Children Check

  • National Police Check

Supervision

I engage in regular clinical supervision as part of my ongoing professional and ethical practice, including supervision with an arts therapist and counsellor specialising in trauma.

Recent Selected PD highlights

  • Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Training — Beginner I & II completed; Intermediate training underway (Melbourne; practitioner training pathway ongoing, 2025–2028)

  • Using Art Therapy to Explore Shame: Understanding how shame presents in the nervous system, its function, and how to support repair. (Integrated Trauma Therapy, Tania Virgona- 2025)

  • Trauma-Sensitive Practice: Working with Complex Trauma (Blue Knot Foundation-2025)

  • Counselling Autistic Adults, Parts 1 & 2 (NDATS, Jacqueline Gibbs- 2025)

  • Neurodiversity-affirming Practice in Creative Arts Therapy- ANZACATA (Raelene Dundon- 2024)

  • Exploring Arts and Parts (integrating IFS) -MIECAT (Sarah Owen, MIECAT- 2025)

  • Understanding Grief: An Attachment-Informed Approach (Grief Australia- 2024)

  • A Field Guide to Embodied Awareness - Body Weather (Frank Van de Ven & MIECAT - 2024)

  • Trauma and Somatic Therapy

    • Somatic Experiencing® (SE) — Currently undertaking Beginner I & II (practitioner training pathway ongoing, 2025-2028)

    • Using Art Therapy to Explore Shame: Understanding how shame presents in the nervous system, its function, and how to support repair (Integrated Trauma Therapy, Tania Virgona- 2025)

    • Exploring Arts and Parts: integrating Therapeutic Arts Practice and IFS (Sarah Owen, MIECAT- 2025)

    • Trauma-Sensitive Practice — Working with Complex Trauma (Blue Knot Foundation- 2025)

    • Understanding Complex Trauma: Art Therapy, Somatic Principles and Self-Care (Integrated Trauma Therapy, Tania Virgona- 2023)

    • Understanding Grief: An Attachment-Informed Approach (Grief Australia-2024)

    • ACT Training Part 1- 2 days -Acceptance & Commitment Therapy- (ACT Mindfully, Russ Harris- 2021)

    • An Expressive Arts Approach to Healing Loss and Grief (Irene Renzenbrink)

    Neurodiversity and Attachment

    • Counselling Autistic Adults: Part 2 — Understanding the complexity of the Autistic experience (Jacqueline Gibbs, NDATS-2025)

    • Counselling Autistic Adults: Part 1 — Reframing autism from deficit to difference (Jacqueline Gibbs, NDATS-2025)

    • Creative Connections — Integrating Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice in Creative Arts Therapy (Raelene Dundon, ANZACATA-2024)

    • Diversity in the Arts Therapy Practice. The Mystery of Clients' attachment styles: Core Principles and Strategies for Arts Therapy practice (Aleksandra Gostev, ANZACATA- 2023)

    Somatic and Embodiment

    • Guided Drawing Certificate, 30hours (Sensorimotor Art Therapy, Cornelia Elbrecht- 2022)

    • Art, Music and Dance Therapy Programs with Older Adults (Swinburne University-2022)

    • Rhythm in Flow, Dance Meditation (Jodie Radha Lynch- 2024)

    • Body Weather — A Field Guide to Embodied Awareness (Frank Van de Ven and MIECAT-2024)

    • Expressive Arts Therapy Approaches to Brain and Body During COVID-19 (Cathy Malchiodi)

    Gender and Social Justice

    • Supporting Women in the Sex Industry, 6 weeks (Project Respect, 2024)

    • Art Therapy in Post-Conflict Reconciliation and Rehabilitation (Chanudi Wickramasingha, Mental Health Care Retreat - 2024 )

    • Transition Towns Training, 2 Days — incorporating Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects (2014)

    • Storytelling for Social Change (Sparks)

    Eco-Arts and Environmental Therapy

    • Introduction to Horticultural Therapy — 8 Days over 8 weeks (CERES )

    • Eco-Mythic Psychodrama, 2 Days— Nature Calling (Geoff Berry and Julie Lacy- 2015)

    • ECO 530: Introduction to Eco-Art Therapy — 12 modules (Greensong EcoPsychology and Project NatureConnect 2016-2018)

    • Equine and Nature-Based PD (Wedgetail Equine and Arts Therapies-2024)

    • Spiritual Ecology, 2 Days (Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and CERES Environment Park- 2017)

    • Intro to Natural Dyeing — local flora (Ilka White-2018)

    Expressive Arts and Sacred Practice

    • Shamanic Ecology — The Wild Feminine (Nymh Fox, CERES- 2019)

    • Experiential Workshop: Birthing a New Paradigm, Together (Marianne Wobcke- 2024)

    • Psychodrama and The Tarot, 2 Days (Julie Lacy, Phoenix Institute- 2016)

    • Sacred Circle Work (co-facilitating creative rituals for community transformation)

    • Art and Spirituality Integration (personal studies and workshops)

I am deeply committed to continued learning and professional development, staying current with emerging therapies and methodologies in order to provide the best support for my clients. I strive to integrate these varied tools and approaches into my practice to meet the unique needs of each individual I work with.