Creative therapies in Bayswater

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Crystal Ballroom is a ballroom and social dance studio on Marshall Road, Malaga, led by principals Richard and Julie Morrissey. Adults learn waltz, cha-cha, slow rhythm and other social dances in an eight-week Wednesday evening course from 7pm, followed by a social dance until 9.30pm, for $120. People can come solo or with a partner. Kids classes run Saturday mornings at $15 a week, and private lessons, competition coaching and wedding dance packages are also offered.

Flying High Aerial Arts Studios is a pole dance and flexibility studio on Westchester Road, Malaga, that has been teaching in Perth for more than ten years. Small classes run from beginner pole, covering spins, poses and climbs, through intermediate and advanced levels, alongside flexibility and conditioning sessions. No experience is needed and new students start each week. Class times vary with the timetable, and new students can take two weeks of unlimited classes for $88.

A Registered Music Therapist working in Subiaco, offering individual and group music therapy to all ages. Music therapy is recognised by the NDIS as a capacity-building therapeutic support, and sessions can be arranged on that basis or privately. Bookings and enquiries go through the therapist directly.

Arts therapy and psychotherapy from rooms in Stirling, with a second location in West Perth. Sessions use drawing, painting, sculpting, collage, drama, dance and movement, individually or in groups, and are open to NDIS participants on plan-managed, self-managed or agency-managed plans as well as private clients. The arts therapist is registered with ANZACATA and also registered with PACFA as a psychodynamic psychotherapist.

A Fitzgerald Street studio that takes adults seriously as dancers rather than as an afterthought to the children's timetable — its own description is Perth's only studio teaching exclusively adults and mature-age students. Nineteen styles run across the week, from ballet and tap to flamenco, Bollywood, K-pop and heels, and the levels start at absolute beginner and go through to professional. Six-week BASICS courses run from $120.

A Balcatta studio running a six-day timetable across jazz, tap, classical ballet, lyrical and contemporary, hip hop, acrobatics and musical theatre. The adult classes are the notable part — the studio's own line is that it has lovely ladies still tapping in their eighties — and students of all ability levels including beginners are taken. Preschool classes start from eighteen months.

Paige McNaught works across an unusually wide set of materials — visual art, clay, sand play, photography, textiles, movement and music among them — from Fremantle and Perth, or online Australia-wide. A PACFA-registered counsellor and ANZACATA member with a psychotherapy degree behind the arts training. Individual sessions are published at $156.16 an hour, with NDIS creative counselling groups alongside.

Elisabeth Eitelberger practises as both a psychodynamic psychotherapist and a creative arts therapist in Walyalup/Fremantle, with a Vienna philosophy and theatre background behind a Murdoch creative arts therapies masters. Clinically registered with PACFA and ANZACATA. Sixty-minute sessions at $190, with concession and block rates, in person or online. Adults and couples.

A Perth centre offering art psychotherapy delivered by ANZACATA-registered professionals, in a practice where image-making becomes a first language for things that are hard to say out loud.