Creative therapies in Perth

A Bayswater-based private music therapy practice run by registered music therapists, working with clients across ages and abilities in clinic and community settings.

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.

Bridie Fitzgerald runs a private studio in the Perth foothills near Midland, registered with both AMTA (music therapy) and PACFA (counselling). Sessions span music therapy, counselling, early-intervention work with young children, and straight-up music lessons — voice, guitar, flute, piano and songwriting. NDIS registered for self and agency-managed participants.

A private music therapy practice working out of Victoria Hall on Fremantle's High Street, building personalised music therapy programs around each client rather than a set curriculum, with NDIS participants supported.

A registered WA charity running community art wellbeing programs — studio sessions, workshops and art and somatic experiences facilitated by peer workers alongside art and somatic therapists. They're explicit that the work complements clinical care rather than replacing it, which says a lot about how they operate.

A Perth psychotherapy practice where art therapy and expressive therapy sit alongside talking work — including NDIS art therapy — for people who process better through making and movement than conversation alone.

Michaela Psaila-Savona brings three decades of professional experience to a Masters-trained, ANZACATA-registered art therapy practice seeing children, young people and older adults, individually and in groups, with NDIS participants among her clients.

An ANZACATA-registered art therapist working across three fronts: one-to-one sessions with individuals, programs for community groups, and commissioned work for organisations wanting art therapy in their services.

Aneta Wnek is a Masters-qualified, ANZACATA-registered creative arts therapist working mainly with adults, in individual sessions and small groups. No art skill is expected — the making is the medium, not the point. Referrals and self-managed NDIS participants are welcome, and a free discovery call starts things off.