Christina Tester Art Therapy
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Creative Art Therapy for increased mental and emotional health and wellbeing
Welcome
Servicing area
Melbourne inner northFocus areas
Join me at Growing Knowings - Creative Art Therapy Workshop
A dedicated space for those who want to slow down and be supported in deepening their connection to themselves through nurtured engagement in creative processes.
$60 full fee and $45 concession
July 1st and 15th!
Call me for all inquiried or follow link below for more information and to book your place.
As a qualified and dedicated therapeutic arts practitioner, I will guide you through creative processes that assist you in connecting with your lived experience through imagination and creativity, enable you to uncover your unique gifts and challenges, and gently hold space while you move through necessary stages of healing and change that feel meaningful and right to you.
Your experience with me will be collaborative and tailored to accommodate your individual needs, goals and challenges.
My practice is set up for teenagers through to Adults. I can assist you in managing and moving though:
Significant or sudden life changes
Issues around identity and feeling lost
Feelings of isolation, unworthiness and stuckness
Grief and loss
Mental Health issues such anxiety and depression.
Diagnoses such as, ASD and BPD.
Get in touch for more info and to see if I'm the right practitioner for you (:
Why a therapeutic arts session?
In the therapeutic arts, we engage in a process of creating with different art materials as a way to explore, express and make sense of our feelings, experiences and sensations. Whilst making, we foster an attitude of curiosity and openness toward what is taking shape and how we are in the process.
As we connect with the art materials our sensing bodies become engaged in the process of creation. We enter a different kind of space, where our minds gently relax and allow our embodied knowledge to begin to emerge. Here, a deeper part of ourselves is met and over time we can:
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Give voice to experiences and feelings not easily expressed in words.
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Find out what’s important to us and what creates meaning in our lives.
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Strengthen trust in ourselves.
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Deepen our relationship with ourselves and others.
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Strengthen our ability to acknowledge, accept and move through difficult emotions and life situations.
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Strengthen our ability to imagine and create new possibilities and ways of being in our lives, allowing us to grow and flourish as human beings.
About Christina
Christina Tester is passionate about creative self-expression and its relationship to healing and personal meaning making. From early childhood into adult life, she has maintained a strong and intuitive partnership with creativity. Engaging in and studying different art modalities such as music making, poetry and film making to express feelings and make sense of her life.
Christina has a Bachelor in Fine Arts, Honours in Sound Art and a Masters in Creative Art Therapy which she received in 2020 from the MIECAT Institute. She works with people from a diverse range of situations, ages and life experience, including member of the LGBTIQA+, offering them a safe and non-judgmental space to express and explore their experiencing. Christina currently works as an Art Therapist as the Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne. She is a registered art therapist with ANZACATA and is set up to work with plan managed NDIS clients.
As a Therapeutic Arts practitioner I bring my experiential knowledge to hold a warm and inviting space for you to explore, express and honour your feelings and lived experiences. Collaboratively we will move towards understanding and articulating your needs and values and your unique gifts and challenges. I will also assist you in finding and cultivating what matters most in your life, including changes you may want to make in order to live a life that feels meaningful to you.
BUSINESS HOURS
Friday 9:30 - 5:30
Saturday 10:00 - 1:00
Call: 0438776903
Email: growingknowings@gmail.com
Services
Face to Face Art therapy session
1hrIn a face to face Art therapy session we will work together in a private space, inquiring into your lived experience, through engaging in creative processes. No art experience is necessary and all art materials are provided.
Telehealth Art Therapy
1hrMeeting online, working together to inquire into your lived experience through engagement in creative processes. You will need to provided your own art materials, a computer, wifi connection and a safe quiet space.
Business Hours
We're open 2 days.
Friday |
9:30 am | To | 5:30 pm |
Saturday |
10:00 am | To | 1:00 pm |
Qualifications
- Masters In Therapeutic Arts Practice
Professional Membership
- ANZACATA - Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association
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