Caring for Self while Caring for Others
Art Therapy and Mindfulness for Healthcare Professionals
I'm an Art Psychotherapist and Registered Mental Health Nurse. I created the Art Psychotherapy programme at the Hollywood Clinic (now Ramsay Clinic Hollywood) in Perth and worked there for 32 years. I've spent my career inside healthcare systems, and I understand the weight of what you carry.
The Reality of Caring Work
Those who care for others carry a great deal. Nurses, doctors, paramedics, allied health staff and first responders spend their days alongside distress, loss and urgency, and rarely get time to set it down.
Words aren’t always enough. Some of what builds up, such as the weariness, the things witnessed and the quiet effort of always being strong, lives somewhere talking doesn’t easily reach.
Creative Sanctuary offers a different kind of pause. In a boundaried, trauma-informed space, we use mindfulness, imagery and art-making to give that weight a form, so it can be seen, held and gently put down. There’s no performance and nothing to explain.
Clinical Foundation & Professional Integrity
Facilitation
I lead every session myself, as an Art Psychotherapist and Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMHN) who created the Art Psychotherapy programme at the Hollywood Clinic (now Ramsay Clinic Hollywood) and worked there for 32 years.
Professional Standards
Facilitated by a Registered Mental Health Nurse and ANZACATA professional member, drawing on 32 years of clinical practice at Hollywood Clinic.
Psychological Safety
Structured as a time-limited, boundaried, trauma-informed space — designed to hold complexity without expectation or performance pressure. I am trained in secondary trauma awareness and clinical containment.
Complementary Support
These offerings function as standalone staff care, separate from existing institutional wellness programmes — designed to support your team’s wellbeing without duplication or interference with internal frameworks.
Mobile Creative Sanctuary — On-Site Delivery
I bring the full Creative Sanctuary experience directly to your facility. I arrive with all materials — art supplies, journals, music — ready to create a complete, self-contained container for your team.
Your facility requires zero setup or administrative burden.
Cohort Size: 6-8 participants (optimal for group depth and confidentiality)
Duration: 3-hour half-day immersion
Location Options:
Your hospital facility, clinic, or designated team space (mobile delivery)
Or a hired space in Subiaco when needed
Our Five Offerings
No art experience needed. A creative pause for those who spend their lives caring for others.
Arrive in the Present: a pause between shifts to step out of busyness and into quiet attention.
Reconnect with Your Sacred Space: a chance to find where you feel held, when so much of your day is spent holding others.
Give Form to What You Carry: space to express the grief and emotional weight of the work that words cannot always reach.
Discover Movement & Inner Resources: recognise the strengths and resources that have carried you through your own journey.
Come Home to Your Centre: a grounding mandala practice to restore a sense of balance and steadiness.
Each experience can be shaped around your team, your setting and what your staff are carrying right now. If you have something else in mind, let’s talk it through.
Bring Creative Sanctuary to Your Team
I understand the weight of what your team carries. If you would like to talk about a trial workshop or a session shaped around your department and roster, I welcome the conversation.
