Reclaim Your Creative Energy in the Therapy Room and in Life
Training for psychologists and helping professionals
If you’re feeling drained, or you sense that the parts of you that once brought imagination and hope to your clinical work have been pushed aside, you’re not alone. The qualities that drew you to this work, your empathy, your curiosity and your understanding that things can be different, are often worn down by systems that were never designed to sustain us and by pressure to stay within a narrow medically based model.
What if the path back involved learning new ways of working, ways that bring creativity, compassion and play into your practice and into your life, alongside colleagues who share your values?
Flourishing Space offers training, peer supervision and community for psychologists and other helping professionals who want to work more creatively and find sustainable ways to flourish together.
My creativity-focused offerings are designed specifically for those in the helping professions, such as therapists and health professionals, and those in leadership roles, who are ready to find their way back to creativity, joy, and connection.
Creativity
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The Flourishing Way
Group Program
The Flourishing Way brings together psychological and mindfulness-based approaches with hands-on creative exploration. It's designed to help you reconnect with the vibrant, playful parts of yourself to help you flourish in work and life.
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Individual Mentoring
One-on-One Support
Sometimes the journey back to yourself needs individual attention. If you are a psychologist or helping professional who is ready to reclaim your creative vitality, or working on to decolonising your practice, my one-on-one mentorship offers personalised support, so you can thrive in your practice and in your life, and your clients can benefit from that too.
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Speaking & Workshops
Available for podcasts and bringing creative energy and innovation to your team or organisation.
Traditional wellness approaches often fall short because they don't address the root issues. The difficulty stems from not addressing our need for creativity, connection and play.
AAPi Webinar
Creativity: A new future for therapist self-care
This instant access webinar is hosted by the Australian Association of Psychologists (AAPi). In it, we explore why creativity, play, and connection are essential for sustainable practice in the helping professions, and why the usual self-care advice so often falls short.
Together, we look at how depletion shows up in our work, and how reconnecting with our imaginative, compassionate selves can support resilience, authenticity, and joy.
Available to watch on demand. Currently free for AAPi members or $30 for non-members. If you are new to AAPi, you'll be prompted to create a free account at checkout.
Why Creativity-Focused Work?
Through my work as a psychologist, poet, educator, and mentor, I've found that current approaches to clinical work, and to preventing depletion and disconnection often miss something. We're told to practice self-care, sleep, exercise, and set boundaries. These things matter, but they are often not enough.
What often gets overlooked is the importance of reconnecting with the compassionate, creative, and playful parts of ourselves in community with others.
When we reconnect with our creativity:
We find energy, playfulness and joy that we didn't know we had
We remember who we are beyond our professional roles
We develop resilience and solidarity with our colleagues that sustains us through our work
We become more present in multiple areas of our lives
This is what I witness in the professionals I work with.
❀ The Creative Toolkit: Three Practices to Nurture Your Inner Creative ❀
Feeling depleted or lacking inspiration? Download our free creative toolkit!
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath