Slowly emerging - Nillumbik location
I am moving towards offering one day a week in, or around, Eltham. This project is in its gestational phase.
In recent years I have moved to the Nillumbik Shire, and am slowly developing a sense of place here. I would like to make a contribution to the region which is holding me, and grow my connection to the local eco-system.
My Northcote clinic will remain securely in-place. My Nillumbik day will be an additional space, open to both new and existing clients. My intention to explore different ways of working; to include a deeper relationship with our natural environment and more art-based practices.
In this new space I will not be offering the Medicare rebate, as I am curious to explore what becomes possible on a day when I am not switching between clinical administration and the deeper healing work. The Medicare rebate will remain available in Northcote as I know it plays an important part in accessibility, and that for some people my collaboration with a clinical team (GP, psychiatrist, dietician) is of great importance. I am still committed to this work.
I have a love of rivers since childhood, and the Birrarung (Yarra River) particularly has acted as teacher, muse and salve through my journey as a therapist so far. It feels fitting that the expansion of my practice would occur further along the river from the beautiful Inside This River location in Northcote.
I am not yet sure what this Nillumbik day will look like?? I will offer individual sessions, and hopefully groups, but likely it will not be an exact replica of my primary practice in Northcote (which will remain securely in-place). This will be a space for exploring possibilities…
Hopefully expanding further into eco-based ways of working and being together; nature-based art therapy workshops? basket weaving? nature poetry? meeting by the river? listening to eco-systems as mentors for nervous system regulation? I’m curious how therapy might include reciprocity with our natural environment - could we plant trees while engaging in therapy about the plans people are making for their own lives?? Could an eco-dye workshop produce pouches to donate for injured birds….?? Collaborations with local artists and other therapists? I am all ‘aswim’ with musing and ponderings… and so hence the gestational period.
I am aiming to have this off the ground (well… on the ground) by the end of 2025.
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