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How? We apply the neurobiology of creativity to filling in the gaps between talk-based processing and functional therapy.
✓ Allied health credentialed ✓ Trauma-informed ✓ Ages 16+ ✓ NDIS plan compatible
Approach →
The body as a map
Our bodies are highly involved in forming our mental, emotional and relational life. So, ideas about how bodies work can provide frameworks for making sense of things. Concepts like plasticity, the role of sensory systems in modulating experience, and memory are often useful as signposts.
Creativity as a tool
Creativity is a highly effective multi-tool for exploring what’s going on, taking things apart, and putting them back together, as well as test driving experiences of not-knowing, surprise, and novelty that can pave the way for change. There are lots of ways to develop and apply creativity.
Possibility as a pathway
Possibilities expand when we notice our ability to influence what happens next - even in very small ways - and we can leverage this to make unexpected routes from A to B. In many cases, this can be a bridge between effective use of creativity and increased capacity.
Capacity as an outcome
Think of ‘capacity’ as available volume, space or bandwidth. Increased capacity means that overloading is less likely to happen. A common outcome of therapy is noticing and cultivating our capacity for ‘doing life’ in ways that are meaningful, rewarding and in keeping with our values.
Possible ways of doing this →
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Brief support
1-3 sessions to work through something specific. These sessions can be self-booked. Suitable for:
Wellbeing maintenance
Life transitions
Light self-inquiry
Testing the waters for a deeper cycle
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Deeper cycle
Cycles of 4-10 sessions to delve further into an area of experience, or reinforce routines for moving toward desired outcomes.
Suitable for situations where the entry point is not clear - you just know that something is in need of development. Or, you know what the matter is, and that it will take time to explore.
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Structured plans
Goal-oriented therapeutic plans incorporating formal assessment, consultation and reporting. This is often as part of a care team.
Suitable for goal-based functional development. This can be in line with NDIS plans under Capacity Building: Therapeutic Supports.
This might be for you if… →
→ You want to explore something personal (a problem, question, belief) within a contained interpersonal structure
→ You don’t quite know how to put that something into words, or maybe words miss the point
→ You would like to find a fresh outlook on something that you’ve become stuck on
→ You wonder if it’s ‘normal’ to experience this level of internally felt complexity and ambiguity
Next steps →
