Art Therapy Albany Kinjarling

What can Art Therapy promote?

Express feelings and emotions in a safe environment
Enhance self-awareness, mindfulness and empathy
Improve social skills through collaborative activities
Build upon a sense of identity and self-confidence
Develop coping strategies for stress and anxiety
Identify Values, Needs, Choices, Patterns and Preferred ways of being

About Serena

Serena is an Art Therapist (Masters Level), Painter and Art Teacher Artist: Colin

I offer a strong focus and love of materiality, experimentation and alchemy in making together/collaboration.

Through the process of making art, sound, writing, movement and grounding; values, feelings and needs can be explored.

Playfulness and joy can lead to unexpected ways of relating and being in the world. Together threads can be woven, pulled apart and repaired with heart centred listening and reflection in safe space to express.

Imagination and engaging with living creations, colours and the 'art studio' space as living rich source of nourishment and energy to transform, can offer hope and incubate future thinking/dreaming/inventiveness.

Working across painting studio practise, community arts and relational space of Art Therapy Serena’s practice seeks to value emergence, immediacy, shared authorship and the power of transformation in the arts.

With 20 years’ experience as an Artist the thread of arts for social change and equity runs through. With travels to India, remote Western Desert and Amsterdam these experiences in making art in diverse settings have shaped a human centred approach to Art Therapy.

Serena holds a BA Vis Arts with Honors (Painting), Amsterdam School of Arts and a Grad Dip Ed (Art Education) Masters in Art Therapy Melbourne Institute of Experiential and Creative Art Therapy The MIECAT Institute: Accredited Courses in Therapeutic Arts

1:1 Art Therapy sessions are $156.16 p/h (this includes all art materials, data storage, report writing and note taking) Please contact me serenamclauchlan@y7mail.com or 0427 086 942

Home visits and studio space available in central Albany.