Creative therapies in Northern Suburbs

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 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.