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Art Therapy
Somatic Experiencing
& Life Coaching for individuals.

Kind, gentle, creative help to navigate life.

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Art Journal Prompts

In case you’re missing Online Art Group which is currently not running, or if you’re curious to try some therapeutic art - here’s a growing library of art journal prompts for you to think, write or make art in response to. I hope you enjoy them!

Other Offerings

Coming soon.

A podcast of whimsical stories,
an interactive fiction mental health app,
…and more.

Hello, thanks for being here.

At present, I am focussed on some other exciting projects, and I am not taking on new 1:1 clients.

If you’d like to be notified when this changes, please get in touch here and I’ll keep you posted. And if you have worked with me before - even if it has been a while - this doesn’t affect you, and you’re welcome to book in.

If you’re curious about Art Therapy, perhaps you’d like to have a look at the growing collection of art journal prompts for you to use as inspiration to think, write, or make art in response to.

Warmly, Ellen

Helping people feel better.

Tending trauma, supporting big and small life changes, and delighting in finding creative ways to make dreams real.

Anything is possible and everything is welcome.

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Healing, change and growth can be challenging… and kind of fun when we work in ways that are curious, creative, gentle and kind.

I offer workshops and classes, and see clients in person in Cairns, Australia, and worldwide through Zoom.

What could we do together?

Stories are what makes the world go round.

Here are some recent stories from the blog:

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Reflections from the road.
Reflections from the road.

I'm road tripping at the moment - en route from the far north to as far south as I can go without jumping the straight to Tasmania. And as always, travel is one of my biggest teachers.

Here are a few reflections from the road; things I've been musing on while driving for hours and hours and more hours.

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Balance
Balance

If I were a tightrope walker (I am not a tightrope walker), I would say that balance requires awareness and presence.

At least, at first.

If you've learned to walk a tightrope (or ride a bike), you'll know that eventually the micro-movements required to keep you upright become automatic and unthinking. I'm not sure if life balance is the same - perhaps it is for some, though I haven't found it to be so, or perhaps there are too many variables for it to be a fair comparison.

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You are not a machine.
You are not a machine.

Humans aren't machines.

Artists aren't art factories.

Parents aren't child rearing robots.

But often we bow to the pressure of a society that seems to think we should be.

Do more, be more, get better, fit more in, set some goals, achieve them, set some more… now do the thought experiment - can you hit your ten year goals in six months? Do you feel as tired reading this as I do writing it? We're not ingenious contraptions meant for perpetual expansion.

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How you do one thing…
How you do one thing…

It's going to come as zero surprise to you when I tell you that having a regular creative practice can help you live better.

Aside from the mental health benefits that come with focussed creative time, it’s related to the idea that how you do one thing is how you do everything - you tend to have ways of thinking and feeling and moving through the world that are similar, no matter the circumstances you find yourself in.

And so if you regularly play with a blank page (or in your kitchen or your garden or sewing room - however you like to create) and watch what you do and how you do it, the parts that feel fun and the parts that challenge you (and how you deal with those challenges), you might start to see connections with how you live life in the world outside your blank page or art journal or kitchen or garden or wherever you like to create.

Want an example? Read on...

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