Monday, September 15, 2008

Group art therapy for young adults

A sample of group images created on first art therapy group session with an art group for young adults with mental health issues.  Open group available to residents and outreach clients of Mental Health Service.  Participants are under 21 years of age and all are dynamic individuals with a creative style of their own!  

Structured and themed 8 week block of art therapy sessions 'Mind-Body Connection'


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Drysdale and Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nyrelle Bade currently works as a creative arts counsellor and has a private practice in Melbourne, Australia. She has been developing and facilitating packaged art therapy programs for individuals and groups since 2004. Nyrelle specialises in working with individuals who don't respond to traditional forms of 'talking therapy' or those individuals who feel 'stuck' in their lives. I approach the counselling process in a dynamic, interactive, and collaborative way. Through using a combination of creative arts and flexible communication styles, the counselling process is deepened allowing a release of energy to invigorate professional and personal lives. Nyrelle has experienced in her own life the transformative quality of art making as well as being witness to the healing and restorative qualities of image making with her clients.

Creative Arts Counselling

Art has a long history as a means of expressing the inexpressible through the use of images, symbols, movement and sound which convey a deeper, a broader and more complex message that mere words can describe.

We store memories in images and in the body and so it is through the expression of these images that enables the release of 'stuck' or blocked tension and trauma.

Through the release of this blocked energy, inner resources emerge, insights are revealed, dreams and aspirations become tangible and increased vitality and energy is available to create a more meaningful and rewarding life.

Creative arts counselling cuts through the encrusted outer layer of the problem or issue - bypasses cognitive processes - and connects us directly with the heart of the matter. This process instigates and excites movement towards healing, transformation and change.