Art Therapy & Holistic Counselling
Therapy for people who don't quite fit the mould.
Based in Sydney, Australia. Working online with people worldwide.
What if there was nothing 'wrong' with you?
You might feel like you've been walking around with your shirt inside out and on back to front. Like everyone else got the instructions and you missed the memo. Like life is supposed to have started by now.
But here's what I know: the fact that you're searching means something. You're not broken. You're ready.
Holistic counselling and art therapy aren't a "fix"—it's a catalyst for change. Think of it more like alchemy. Together, we melt down the hard things, not to destroy them, but to find what's essential. The purest essence of you, hiding in plain sight. Lost in the lint of life, but never gone.
Sometimes you might find yourself exhausted, drained, and feeling lackluster without a sense of what the cause is. You might be ready to reach for the next shiny thing outside of you to act as a balm to bigger issues that actually can only be remedied by going within.
Stepping carefully into your inner landscape and tending to what needs attention allows you to reclaim the caretaker role of you. We do this in a way that doesn't turn you into a self-improvement project with a long list of tasks to do, but rather allows you to see the lay of the land and have a clear line of communication with your inner world, in all the ways one can. Within that inner landscape you exist in multitudes, an ever-expanding, unlimited terrain.
Transpersonal art therapy and counselling helps to gently stir this inner caretaker from a long hibernation and bring them into being. So above, so below; within and without.
You are the expert on you. A treasure chest, a swiss army knife, and a nest all in one.
As your counsellor, I'm not here to find things for you or diagnose you.
I'm a guide wandering with you, holding the light so you can feel free to look around and find your own way forward.
Services
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Counselling
Come as you are. Bring all of you, the contradictions, the confusion, the parts you don't have words for yet. You'll be met by someone who is genuinely ready to sit with all of it, warmly, without agenda, without rushing you toward an answer you're not ready for.
You are not a list of symptoms to be diagnosed. You are a whole person. That is how I work with you.
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Transpersonal Art Therapy
Here's the thing about creativity. It doesn't live in your to-do list. It doesn't respond to logic or scheduling or waiting until you feel ready. It lives somewhere quieter than that, in the part of you that already knows things before your brain catches up. We're not making you more creative. We're helping you find the door that was always yours.
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Workshops & Events
Creative activations for libraries, galleries, museums, universities and community organisations. Beginner friendly, socially warm, and deliberately simple. People often arrive a little unsure and leave surprised by themselves.
I'm genuinely interested in building creative connection for people who are isolated and need a place to belong. If that's what you're building too, I'd love to hear from you and what you have in mind.
Testimonials
About Mary-Helen
I came to this work as someone who needed it first.
I know what it feels like to have a creative life sitting just out of reach—to want more, but not know how to get there. That experience is exactly what brought me to transpersonal art therapy and eventually to training as a counsellor and art therapist myself.
Through a holistic lens, I work with the whole of you as a whole being—body, mind, emotion, and spirit. Along with you, you bring histories, labels, complexities, values, and beliefs that I hold gently and carefully to make sure you are supported as we unfold what has been and what might be the way forward.
Today, I work online with adults worldwide, including NDIS-funded participants.
Read more about my approach & training
Professional Memberships:
Level 2 Member, Australian Counselling Association (ACA)
Full Member, International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT).
Reflections & Creative Musings
Are perfectly edited art videos making you feel like a failure? Discover how to move past the "perfectionist edit" and reclaim your authentic, messy creative process.