Under the Tree

Transpersonal Art Therapy &

Holistic Counselling

Transpersonal

Art Therapy?

Sometimes we find it hard to express our internal world in words. Fear & judgement step in and become major blocks to addressing the issues we know we need to acknowledge on the inside.

This is where Transpersonal Art Therapy can help a great deal, where a creative, client centred process guides you to the heart of self to help clarify and explore what is awaiting healing.

No Art experience required.

No Art skills are required as it is not about the end result, but about the journey it takes you through. Symbols speak a thousand words and are understood universally. By exploring the language of symbols, we discover the meanings behind negative thought patterns, what keeps us bound by negative habits and brings what matters to light.

Transpersonal Art Therapy is a powerful method using non-confrontational ways to explore our inner-world and have a deeper understanding of how to feel comfortable in ourselves and walk confidently.

Art therapy helps Adult, adolescents, and children to explore their emotions, improve self-esteem, manage addictions, relieve stress, improve symptoms of anxiety and depression, cope with a physical illness or disability and walk in recognition and empowerment. An invitation... Through Transpersonal Art Therapy we can step safely across the bridge to the unconscious to uncover the soul’s language of symbols.

Life’s setbacks are not seen as problems, but as stepping-stones of greater opportunities for personal growth and spiritual development.

What I offer, is a safe & sacred space for you to find and strengthen your ‘creative spark’, helping you see what is calling out to be expressed, understood, and heal.

1:1 Session -

In person or via zoom

*See Sessions & Bookings page

Kids programs

  • Group workshops are specifically created. For more information or to make a request to join feel free to connect.

Healing from the heart

School age children workshops groups aged 6-8 years

~ Butterfly - Young Maiden Circle. Girls aged 8-13 years old

~ Phoenix - Teens young woman circles aged 14-16 years

School Holiday Sessions * groups are created for specific creative healing modalities.

*Contact me for more details with regards to these speciality programs.

Offerings

Workshops attuned to your unique path

Ceremony’s & Rites of Passage

Making conscious movements through transitions with meaningful shifts in life path. Stepping stones that mark significant stages and thresholds in our life.

Such as puberty coming to age, new sibling arrival, separations, new partnerships, moving houses, death of a loved one, sickness any and all significant changes that mark a time in your life path that is worth acknowledging from a holistic felt sense.

To learn more about these ancient and unique ways to integrate a meaningful honouring rite of passage or ceremony please feel free to send an email through the contact me page.

A short story about my art therapy journey…

Just a little about me and where my passion of art therapy started.

My dedication towards creative and holistic therapy has been my living in my heart since I was young. At around 9 years old I remember clearly the joy and wonder I felt as I participated in a children’s psychodrama workshop held at our house. My father and mother would hold as well adult psychodrama workshops at the time and the kids workshop was a special interest and created a spark within my heart that still lights me up today.
I remember the stagnant feelings held within me, being released from my body as I stretched and moved with the sounds of storms or rainforest birds playing on the stereo by the facilitator. Moving and acting out drama, spontaneously playing out scenarios from our experience as kids feeling that which felt like storms and that which felt like soft rain and calming space. What a refreshing feeling to use self-expression as a means to letting out tension, and the vast ocean of emotions that we find so hard to put into words. Sadly, these workshops only lasted a few months but left an endless beam of light for me to come back to in my memory to hold in time of need. Art became a source of release, and I drew and drew and painted as I felt I needed.
Years passed and at 24 years old an old friend shared with me a College that was running Transpersonal Art Therapy. That spark of light I felt glow with wonder a calling, a ‘yes’ from within.
Now here I am over 15 years later still feeling that spark so clearly set in my heart to share the awe and wonder of how we can access our own medicine, our own healing power through the ways of endless self-expression. Our infinite capacity to access this inner wisdom a guide that awaits for us to once again feel, taking continual steps towards healing and create meaning of our existence. 


Holistic Art Therapy with children

I have had the pleasure to work with kids for over 15 years. The fresh spark of creativity that so naturally is moved through their way of being, is of a pure heart space.

Each moment of exploration with a child and what is unfolding each day is an opportunity to find the wonder of meaning. Inviting the flow of and wisdom of nature as an inspiration to find there spark for life.

Within this healing creative space, I offer a warm, creative place where young people can express themselves freely and feel truly seen. My holistic art therapy sessions weave together art-making, movement, sound, and mindfulness to support emotional wellbeing, self-regulation, and confidence. Using materials like clay, paint, pastels, sand, and nature-based elements, children are gently guided to explore their inner world in a way that feels safe, playful, and empowering.

I work closely with each child at their own pace, following their interests and needs while drawing on body-based practices to support nervous system regulation. This approach is especially supportive for neurodiverse kids, highly sensitive individuals, or those navigating anxiety, emotional challenges, or social difficulties. Parents are involved through consent and open communication, creating a shared journey of growth. Above all, I hold space with deep respect, care, and belief in every child’s inner wisdom and capacity to heal.


Qualifications, Certifications & Memberships

  • Adv. Dip Transpersonal Art Therapy (2012)

  • Adv. Dip Transpersonal Counselling(2021)

  • Play of life Practitioner (2015)

  • Cert. Sand Play & Play Therapy (2015)

  • PD - Neuroscience & Art Therapy (2025)

  • Member with Holistic Therapists Australia and ANZACATA

  • WWCC

  • First Aid Certificate

A little more about who I am.

My name is Stephanie and I am a facilitator of Transpersonal Art therapy, holistic counselling and a Play of Life facilitator. I work with children, teens and adults, focusing on that which is arising and calling to be listened to. I am committed to helping one find their own inner healing, their voice, creative spark, self love, and passion for life.

The journey of life is one walk each day, each season of our life path weaving with the seasons of life as an offering to learning more about who we are. As such facilitating rites of passage mark significant stepping stones to be felt and witnessed we step forward into each way that which serves our whole being.

Sessions are person centred, connecting to soul & spirit. Using transformational person centred processes that help create meaning, deepen creativity, connection to self and that of the natural world within and around us.

To know more about the way I work, please feel free to reach out and see if I am suited to what you are after in your journey and self enquiry.