Rochelle Melville is an art therapist and intentional creative. Rochelle works from Pathways to Expression in Bald Hills facilitating individual and group sessions and is available to facilitate workshops in the community. She has experience in working with adults, adolescents and children. She uses the healing aspects of art, storytelling, journaling, music and ritual in supporting others to work through their issues by unleashing their innate strength, courage and freedom and practising everyday to be who they are becoming.
What is Art Therapy?
Art therapy is using art materials to explore feelings, thoughts and experiences that may be difficult to verbalise. An art therapy process may be something as simple as a squiggle drawn onto paper or a thumbprint pressed into clay. Using art materials in a therapeutic setting provides opportunity to view the problem or issue from a new perspective, integrate life experiences and develop healthy coping skills and focus.
Who Can Benefit From Art Therapy?
Anyone. Art therapy is particularly suited to those who:
• are struggling to articulate their experiences and feelings verbally
• have found talk therapy to be ineffective
• don’t have the vocabulary to express themselves such as children
• seek to unleash full creative potential.