Clinics & services

Art therapy

Specialist group art therapy programs

Specialist groups are available to anyone. They are not about being an artist, no prior experience is needed.

Nurturing you

Do you spend time going from one thing to the next, sometimes feeling stressed and confused?

Come join us in a supportive nurturing space, express creatively and share therapeutic conversations that will assist you to understand and reduce your stress, worries and concerns.

This program provides opportunities to discover what you need to improve your own health and wellbeing and to learn new ways to make helpful and lasting change.

Caring for carers

The caring role can be very rewarding, but there may be moments when you may feel isolated and alone. Unhelpful feelings and experiences may occupy your thoughts.

This group provides carers the opportunity to meet other carers, be supported and understood in expressing your needs while working towards improved health and wellbeing. Sessions include meaningful conversations and creative art expressions.

Bereavement and creativity

The pain of loss when a loved one dies can be unbearable and overwhelming. Feelings of isolation, loneliness, sadness, confusion, uncertainty, anger and fear become regular unwanted companions.

This group provides a supported therapeutic space to be with other bereaved people, to share meaningful stories, to grieve, to express your emotions and experiences, to be understood, while working toward new helpful ways of supporting your needs.

Creative journeys work group

Supporting grief, loss and major life change.

This creative therapeutic group provides participants with opportunity to express, explore, understand and process personal experiences of loss, grief and major life changes.

We use supportive therapeutic conversations and creative art expressions using a variety of and mediums art materials in each session.

Monthly open studio

Do you just feel like being creative in a wonderful studio space, without interruptions? Why not try our monthly group where you’ll experience pure blissful moments creating with art materials?

Our monthly open studio is held once a month at Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre.

Includes most art and creative materials and tea or coffee.

Bring your canvas or other special art materials that your project requires.

Individual art therapy sessions

Artwork produced in individual art therapy session

Sometimes it’s hard to find the right words when working through difficult life experiences. 

Art therapy uses creativity and therapeutic conversations to support your needs, while working towards improved choices and health and wellbeing.

We work with people who are suffering:

  • Trauma
  • Disability
  • Depression
  • Carer issues
  • Bereavement, grief and loss
  • Stress and anxiety
  • Relationship issues
  • Acquired brain injury
  • Chronic illness
  • Major life change

We use supportive therapeutic conversations and creative art expressions using a variety of and mediums art materials in each session where appropriate.

Contact us

Art Therapy

Phone: 03 9490 7539

Email: Talbot.Leisure@austin.org.au

Location

Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre
1 Yarra Boulevard
Kew, Victoria 

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