PERTH · Creative Therapies
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Specialists in creative therapies — 2 Also offering creative therapies — 3
5 places · 4 suburbs
Theva Indrasenan has run conscious dance in Perth since 2010 — Open Floor trained, with sessions from $25 Friday-night dances to weekend intensives and dawn 'Morning Medicine' beach dances. Venues cluster around Fremantle: North Fremantle Community Hall, Hilton PCYC, Bibra Lake and South Beach. No steps to learn; the floor is the practice.
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.
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 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.
5 of the 19 creative therapies listings in the directory match this view. The count is live, and the order puts specialists first — paid placement never moves anyone up it.
As of October 2026, 5 of the 19 Creative Therapies listings on Oria Haven are in this view (Perth) — counted live from the directory.
2 places here publish a starting price, from $25 to $120.
2 of these specialise in creative therapies — it is their main focus. The other 3 list it among other things they offer.
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.
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95 Australian dollars, 2-week pass
Malaga
New students: 2 weeks unlimited classes for $95
New students · once per person
New students get 14 days of unlimited beginner-friendly pole, flexibility and conditioning classes at Flying High Aerial Arts, Malaga, for $95. Once per new student; buy through the studio's booking link.
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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.
Oria Haven lists 5 practices across 4 suburbs in the Perth metro. Every entry is checked by hand before it goes live, and the list is updated as practices open, move or close.
5 practices across 4 suburbs. The most choice is in Malaga (2) — use the area filter on this page to narrow it to the side of town you can actually get to.
We build the directory ourselves rather than taking paid submissions, so a practice appears because it exists and serves Perth — not because it paid. Practices can claim their listing for nothing and keep it accurate, photos included. Paid plans add booking links, offers and visitor stats. We never take a cut of bookings, and enquiries go straight to the practice.