When insight needs a place to land.
Knowing isn’t always enough.
Sometimes the shift starts in your hands, not your head.
Seen, not solved. Scribbles count. Co-create. Try weird things.
Seen, not solved. Scribbles count. Co-create. Try weird things.
Seen, not solved. Scribbles count. Co-create. Try weird things. Seen, not solved. Scribbles count. Co-create. Try weird things.
Therapy-ish. Artful always. You-shaped.
what is it?
Creative support that meets you where you are.
Sometimes it’s therapy - with all the official bits.
Sometimes it’s co-making - just humans making weird stuff together and seeing what shows up.
It’s gentle, curious, and spacious enough for the messy parts of life.
How does it work?
Therapy is formal(ish).
Co-making is free-range.
If we’re doing therapy, we’ll start with consent forms and all the important safety bits. Then we use art to gently explore what’s underneath. No rush. No pressure.
If it’s creative facilitation, it’s more casual - just a shared space to play and notice.
We follow the thread: colour, shape, movement, scribbles. Wherever you are is where we begin.
Why is it helpful?
Because your brain’s been working overtime.
And art? It’s like a nervous system nap with your eyes open. It moves energy and clears cobwebs.
Creativity helps your clever brain and sensitive body get on the same page again.
You don’t need to walk away with all the answers - just a little space to exhale.
Who is it for?
Big-feeling, clever-brained humans who are tired of holding it all in.
If you’re curious, craving community, creatively stuck or just done - this is for you.
You don’t need to be “creative.” You just need to show up.
Comfy trackies and not knowing are welcome.
Meet your therapist
Hey, I’m Hayley.
If you’ve ever felt like your feelings were too big to hold or too hard to name - you’re not alone.
I know that space well. I'm the kind of person who cries when I'm overwhelmed… then disappears to figure out why. But I don’t always know - not right away. I usually need a couple of days, a journal, a walk in nature, and some art-making before it starts to make sense.
Then *click* I get it.
But if you’ve got a pickle? I spot the pattern like I’ve just found Wally.
It’s what my brain does best - tuning into the shape of things, even when the words aren’t there yet.
I work with deep-feeling, clever-brained humans who try to think their way through what can only be felt. Who notice everything, but can’t always explain why they’re crying, or angry, or completely shut down. People who go quiet when things matter most - not because they don’t care, but because they care so much their words disappear.
I spent years trying to “understand” myself better - until I realised what I really needed was space to experience myself more gently.
That’s where art came in.
Art helps me pull the tangle out of my head and into my hands.
It slows things down and gives shape to what I’m carrying. It helps me meet my feelings with kindness, and eventually, it shows me what to do next.
That’s what we’ll do together too. We’ll let art do the talking and get curious.
This work isn’t about big breakthroughs or neat conclusions.
It’s about learning how to listen differently - to colour, shape, sensation, and silence.
It’s for the ones who know something’s moving underneath - but can’t quite grab it yet.
You don’t need to be ready.
You just need to show up.
Qualifications
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Master of Therapeutic Arts Practice (Creative Arts Therapy), The MIECAT Institute Inc.
Perhaps the most important thing to know about me is that the more I learn, the less I know. I’m right here with you learning, not knowing. Who I am is always emerging. -
PACFA
ANZACATA
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Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing, Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy
Work with me
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Community Creativity
Sometimes you just need to draw nonsense with nice people. That’s what this is.
Scribble Sessions are free, online, monthly-ish, no-pressure creative hangouts for deep-feeling humans who need to make stuff. Come for the scribbles, stay for the chats and the sweet, weird company.
No art skills needed. No small talk required. All big feelings welcome.
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If you’re craving one-on-one support - something private, spacious, and grounded - this might be your space.
These online sessions are a gentle way to explore what’s going on inside - through scribbles, symbols, movement, or even silence.
We go slow, follow what wants to be felt, and meet it with curiosity instead of judgement.
It’s not about being better. It’s about being with your big feelings - in real, kind ways.
When words aren’t enough.
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Not everything fits in a sentence.
Some feelings are too loud. Or too quiet. Or just... off-grid.
Art gives them shape without needing you to explain yourself. -
How you make is how you move.
Tentative lines? Rushed scribbles? Avoiding the blank page altogether?
How you meet materials is often how you meet life. No analysis needed - just curiosity. -
Support that meets you mid-mess.
This isn’t about pushing for breakthroughs or getting “better.”
It’s a chance to feel seen without the performance. No masks, no fixing - just space to be your full, complex self. -
Play isn’t optional. It’s a portal.
Scribbles, textures, weird little experiments - this is serious emotional maintenance, disguised as creative mucking around.