Dip.Ed., Ba.Ed.(Psych).Deakin Univ.
Masters Creative Arts Therapy.
RMIT. Univ.
CMACA. Clinical Member of Australian Counselling Association
ASTSS. Australian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
ACATA. Australians Creative Arts Therapy Association.
AIWCW. Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers. Inc.
ABN.41511014067
ph. +61353564267, mph +61419131874
bunjil@netconnect.com.au
P.O.Box 29. Reids Lane Halls Gap. 3381, Vic,
Australia
Creative Arts Therapy
fosters health, communication, and individual expression. Creative arts therapy promotes the integration of the physical, emotional, cognitive and social functioning; enhances self awareness and facilitates change.
Individuals couples & families.
Grief & Loss.
Emotional difficulties.
Trauma
Mental health.
Relationship Issues.
Alcohol and other drug problems.
Acquired Brain Injury & other disabilities.
Children problems.
Professional Supervision.
Team Development. Groupwork & Training.
I have a post graduate degree with an Advanced Certificate in Supervising tertiary students and teachers, incorporating development of such skills as counselling, managerial, supervising, evaluating, instructing and co-ordinating.
Supervised Masters students at RMIT in Creative Arts Therapy.
Senior clinical therapeutic counsellor
for many years at Grampians Community Health Centre.
Program manager and counselling clinician in the Victorian alcohol and other drug field for over a decade.
I have provided professional supervision in the health and welfare sector to individuals and groups. Facilitated peer supervision programs and team development, specialising in group work, group therapy & training.’
Creative arts therapy is a form of psychotherapy that allows for emotional expression and healing through nonverbal and verbal means. By providing a safe and non-threatening environment, the creative arts therapist invites the individual to express their feelings through a variety of media. Emphasis is placed on the individual who is encouraged to empower him/herself through the self-exploration and self-interpretation of their process and product. The artwork can be spontaneous but may also be directed by the creative art therapist. Through the creative arts process, individuals can often approach difficult issues and convey a message . The creative arts product can serve as a record of these events which the individual can later reflect on and understand with greater clarity and illumination’
No previous art experience is necessary to participate in art therapy. When unhappiness, malcontent, ill health, grief, loss, and neurosis occur, it is necessary to restore emotional stability, develop understandings and coping mechanisms. To keep developing and providing opportunity to participate in the creative process is the role of the therapeutic experience and proposes to promote harmony and balance in the human being.
Creative arts therapy can stimulate imagery to assist in the integration of the psyche to new situations and influence perceptions to provide new ways of perceiving the world and assign new meanings. It can relax, be meditative, create new meaning and symbols. ‘Art therapeutic experiences lead the person in art therapy to a renewed ability to look at and feel self-among-others in one’s own world and in the larger world’.(Betensky, M.G., p21. )The goal of the creative processes at work in art therapy, with the presence of an art therapist, is to help the alienated person back by understanding and compassion, with the help of self-expression and other basic philosophical and methodological tenets of the phenomenological approach.
The creative arts therapies include art therapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, psychodrama, and poetry therapy These therapies use creative processes during intentional intervention in therapeutic, rehabilitative, community, or educational settings to foster health, communication, and expression; promote the integration of physical, emotional, cognitive, and social functioning; enhance self-awareness; and facilitate change. Participation in all the creative arts therapies provides people with special needs, ways to express themselves that may not be possible through more traditional therapies.
The non verbal art experiences are a valid means of communication and therapeutic experience and allows the unspeakable to be spoken, through art languages.
Betinsky, Mala Gitlin.(1995) What Do You See? Phenomenology of Therapeutic Art Expression London and Bristol Pennsylvania ;Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Miller, E.B.
Counsellor in the Gramians Gariwerd region
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