Welcome to Joanne Thorpe Therapies

I provide a safe and supportive environment in which to explore your concerns. I draw from many years experience and much training and I'll endeavour to provide you with support and encouragement in reaching your goals.

I use a variety of approaches, depending on the issues you wish to explore. Each person will be met as an individual and we will work together in the most appropriate way for you or your family.

I am enthusiastic about enhancing creativity to bring more balance and joy into people’s lives.

For professional training and workshops please click on the appropriate tabs. I look forward to hearing from you.

About Joanne

Joanne Thorpe (BA. BSW. MA. Registered Mental Health Worker. Registered Art Therapist) specialises in working with individuals with difficulties in their relationships, with families who are experiencing difficulties and parents who have separated and are negotiating co-parenting. She also works with those who are survivors of trauma and loss in its many manifestations. She provides supervision to students and others who are working with families in transition and those facing the challenges of loss and grief.

Joanne provides family assessment reports for the Family Court of Western Australia and similar reports for the Children's Court, the Department of Immigration and other government bodies.

Joanne also facilitates groups and individual training for those with family difficulties and those who have suffered loss and grief and trauma.

She also provides groups and individual sessions for therapists interested in using art and creativity in their practice.


Joanne's work history includes working for many years in mental health institutions, both government and non-government, working with the Ministry of Justice, with perpetrators of violence (in group work and in institutions), and working as a private therapist. She has worked for a Tenancy Advice agency, an Indigenous Tenancy Agency and with agencies providing family counselling.

In 2008 Joanne worked in two part time positions in Beirut, Lebanon: as an Art Therapist in a Centre for Victims of Torture and as a Social Worker in a Palestinian refugee camp.