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Welcome to Victoria Art Therapy (VAT)
Art Therapy Melbourne
Art is a creative, gentle, and scientifically supported method of non-verbal expression, promoting increased insight into trauma to help boost physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Victoria Art Therapy in Melbourne combines a person-centred “humanistic philosophy” with a phenomenological approach – uniting clients’ unique thinking patterns and experiences with unconscious processes using psychodynamic art therapy and mindfulness.
What to Expect From Our Creative Arts Therapy in Australia?
Our client-centric, tailored creative arts therapy programs include trauma-informed practice – a framework based on responsiveness to and understanding of trauma while highlighting emotional, psychological, and physical safety. This strength-based technique helps clients regain a sense of control over their thoughts and lives.
At Victoria Art Therapy, we incorporate positive art therapy into our art therapy program, combining art with psychological tools to help promote client engagement and emotional health. These creative modalities help positively align perceptions, adding and enhancing meaning, purpose, and motivation.
In addition, acceptance and commitment art therapy relies on free creativity to provide safe and non-judgemental opportunities for clients to experience, acknowledge and understand unpleasant emotions and memories, encouraging a cycle of growth and learning.
Our focus on narrative art therapy also helps externalise internal thoughts and feelings through visualisation or spoken or written stories. The objective is to integrate non-verbal right-brain memories with the more verbal left hemisphere to help reconstruct more accessible and intelligible recollections for greater narrative clarity.
Our skilled art therapists work collaboratively with clients, honouring them as experts of their own experiences, to develop and deliver art therapy with compassion, respect, and dignity.