MARGARET RIVER · Creative Therapies
Make something, with someone guiding.
Explore creative therapies across the Margaret River region, compare the details and choose somewhere that suits your day.
Specialists in creative therapies — 1 Also offering creative therapies — 0
1 place
Christian Johnson and Sophie Paterson practise together in Margaret River, combining mental health occupational therapy, psychotherapy and creative arts therapy. Sophie's work is with teenagers and young adults, roughly twelve to twenty-four.
Every listing is hand-checked by Oria Haven. Figures updated 8 October 2026.
Most relevant means practices that specialise in this first, then the ones with the most reviews to go on. A listing that publishes its price, describes itself and names its services gets a small nudge, never more than a quarter of a star, because you can decide on it without ringing. Paid placements are shown once, in their own band, and never move anyone up the list.
The guide
No artistic ability is required or expected, and practitioners will tell you the same thing in the first five minutes. The work is in the doing, not the result, and nothing you make gets assessed.
Credentials are the useful thing to know here, because both main professions have one. Art therapists are registered with ANZACATA, the professional body for creative arts therapists across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Music therapists hold the Registered Music Therapist credential through the Australian Music Therapy Association, and the letters RMT after a name mean specifically that. Dance movement therapy and broader expressive practice also sit under the ANZACATA umbrella.
Sessions run one-to-one or in small groups, typically an hour, in studios, community centres and sometimes in schools and aged care. A good deal of this work in Perth is funded through NDIS plans, so practices will usually tell you upfront whether they’re registered providers and how self-managed plans are invoiced.
Related: community and support, mindfulness coaching.