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.
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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.
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.
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How creative therapies is taught in Perth
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.
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