A grounding art-based reflection: • Pause and notice how you’re feeling in this moment. • If your feelings had a shape, what might they look like?Soft, sharp, heavy, scattered, flowing? • If you feel drawn to, draw or sketch those shapes slowly. • There is no need to interpret or fix them—just observe. • Let the page hold what you’re noticing internally. Sometimes expression begins with simply noticing 🤍 #ArtBasedHealing #CreativeSelfExpression #EmotionalAwareness #ExpressTo

Children in FIFO families often ride the waves of change too. Excitement when a parent comes home.Upset or withdrawal when they leave again. Big feelings that can show up in unexpected ways. In a place like the South West, there’s so much space to explore—but emotions still need somewhere to land. Creative approaches, like art therapy, can help children and teens express what they don’t yet have words for. Support can look gentle and still be deeply meaningful 🤍 #FIFOKidsSup

Friendships can be complicated. Friendships can be one of the best parts of life…and also one of the hardest. Feeling left out.Not knowing where you fit.Things changing or drifting. In a smaller community, it can feel even more intense—like there’s no escape from it. But things can shift. And you don’t have to handle it all on your own. There’s space to talk about it 🤍 #FriendshipSupport #FriendshipChanges #NavigatingRelationships #FindingYourPlace #BelongingMatters

Titration (Small Amounts of Feeling) A gentle way to check in with yourself: • Pause and take a slow breath. • Bring your awareness to how you are feeling—just lightly, without going too deep. • If anything feels intense, gently shift your attention to something neutral in your environment. • You can move back and forth—just enough noticing, then back to safety. • There is no need to go all the way in. Healing doesn’t have to happen all at once 🤍 #GentleHealing #SmallStepsMa

The One Who’s Away Being away for work can come with its own challenges. Long days, distance from family, missing the small everyday moments, being away from your familiar things and routines. And when you return, there can be an unspoken pressure to slot back in quickly… to make up for lost time. But adjusting takes time—for everyone. Having a space to process the push and pull of FIFO life can make a difference. You don’t have to navigate it all internally 🤍 Sessions now a

Dunsborough and the SouthWest are known for strong, connected communities. And while that can feel supportive and grounding, it can also come with its own challenges—feeling visible, being the one others rely on or finding it hard to step back and focus on yourself. You can care about your community and still need space for you. You can offer support to others and still need support yourself. Therapy can be that space—where you don’t have to be the one holding everything toge

Resourcing A practice of noticing what supports you: · Pause and ask yourself: What might help me feel even slightly more steady right now? · This might be a sensation, a memory, a place, a person or something in your environment. · Gently bring your attention to that resource for a few breaths. · Notice if anything in your body softens, even a little. You don’t have to do this alone—resources can be internal and external 🤍 #ResetSaturday #GroundingPr

The Southwest offers so much quiet inspiration—the soft tones of the bush, the shapes of leaves, the light shifting through trees. In art therapy, we can gently draw on these natural elements. Not to create something perfect, but to notice, to connect, and to express. Sometimes a simple line, a shape or a colour can hold more than words can. Creativity can be a quiet way of coming back to yourself 🤍 Face-to-face and online sessions now available. #SouthWestWA #NatureInspire

Having creative space just for you - in the midst of work, family and community life, it’s easy to put your own needs to the side. Art therapy creates a space that is just yours. A space without pressure, expectation or the need to perform. You don’t need to be “creative” or “good at art.” Just open to exploring, at your own pace. Sometimes, giving yourself permission to create is also giving yourself permission to be 🤍 #CreativeSpace #ArtTherapy #PermissionToBe #CreativeHea

Safe Place Imagery A calming visualisation prompt: · Take a slow breath in… and a longer breath out. · Close your eyes or soften your gaze. · Imagine a place where you feel safe, calm, or at ease. It can be real or imagined. · Notice the colours, textures, sounds or light in this place. · If you’d like, you might sketch or paint a small part of what you imagined afterwards. Your mind can become a gentle place to rest, even briefly 🤍 #ResetSaturd

Ever feel like your mind just keeps going? Do you find yourself: · Overthinking conversations. · Worrying about what people think. · Replaying things over and over. It can become exhausting. You’re not the only one who feels this way. Having a space to talk things through—or even find ways to quiet the noise a little—can really help. You don’t have to stay stuck in your head 🤍

In FIFO families, for the partner at home, life doesn’t pause. You’re holding routines, responsibilities, parenting and the quiet moments in between. From the outside, it can look like you’ve got it all covered.But underneath, it can sometimes feel relentless and overwhelming. You don’t have to carry that load alone. Counselling can offer a space just for you—where you’re not the one holding everything together. You’re allowed to be supported too 🤍 #FIFOFamilies #PartnerSupp

A gentle reminder: • Pause whatever you are doing, if only for a moment. • Take a slow breath in… and a longer breath out. • Notice any pressure to keep going, fix or push through. • Gently offer yourself permission: I can pause right now. • Let your system rest in this small break. Rest is not something you have to earn 🤍 #ResetSaturday #SelfCompassion #PauseAndBreathe #GentleReminder #RestAndRestore

There’s something about the ocean here—the movement, the colour, the constant changing shoreline. In art therapy, we often move in a similar way to the ocean. You might explore your inner world through colour, texture or movement on the page… letting things ebb and flow without needing to make sense of it all straight away. Some days might feel calm and open. Others might feel messy or uncertain. All of it is welcome. All of you is welcome. Like the tide, expression doesn’t h

There’s so much open space here—wide skies, long coastlines, room to breathe. And yet, internally, things don’t always feel spacious. Busy thoughts, heavy emotions or the weight of responsibility and expectations can make things feel tight and overwhelming, even in the most beautiful surroundings. Therapy can help create a different kind of space—an internal one. A place to slow things down, to untangle what feels knotted and to find a little more room within yourself. Outer

Orienting to the Present Here’s a gentle present-moment practice: · Look around the space you are in. · Slowly name (in your mind or softly out loud):3 things you can see2 things you can feel1 thing you can hear · Notice that right now, in this moment, you are here—not in the past or future. No judgement, just noticing. · Take a breath and allow yourself to settle right here, right now, just a little. Orienting can help bring the nervous system back to

Living in a place that feels calm on the outside doesn’t always mean things feel clear on the inside. Sometimes, it’s hard to find the words for what’s going on. Art therapy offers a path that does not need words. Through creative expression: drawing, painting, simple mark-making, collage, clay work, body work, felting, weaving, you can begin to express what feels unclear, heavy or just out of reach of language. There’s no pressure to ‘get it’ or to explain it.No need for per

Life in the Southwest has its quieter seasons. The slower months, the early evenings, the stretches of time that can feel still… or even a little isolating. For some, these moments are restful.For others, they can bring up loneliness, reflection or a sense of being a bit untethered. Both experiences can exist here, even, at times, simultaneously. Therapy offers a space to explore what comes up in those quieter seasons—to feel less alone in them, and to find ways of gently sup

Scribble Release Here’s a simple way to let things move through: · Take a breath in… and a slow breath out. · Grab a pen, pencil, or even just imagine this if you don’t have materials. · Let your hand move freely across the page—no plan, no outcome. · Notice how it feels to make marks without needing them to “mean” anything. · When you’re done, pause and look at it with curiosity, not judgement. This isn’t about creating something beautiful—it’s

Living by the ocean, you might notice how the water is always moving—sometimes calm and steady, other times rough and unpredictable. Our inner world can be much the same. Emotions come and go in waves. Some waves feel manageable, others feel like too much. And sometimes, we can find ourselves trying to hold the waves of emotion back or push them away. But like the tide, feelings aren’t meant to stay stuck.They move, shift, rise and fall. Therapy, counselling or art therapy, c