Rain & Me. Children's Therapy
Learning in relationship with land, children and art.
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Overwhelmed by your child's behavior? Art therapy & counselling for autism, ADHD, anxiety & big feelings. Parent support included. NDIS available. Footscray, Melbourne.
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Children's Therapy Is Not Neutral: On Practice in Times of Crisis
Children's Therapy Is Not Neutral: On Practice in Times of Crisis
Children absorb collective grief, fear, and crisis—even when nothing is said. Silence in the therapy room is not neutrality. It is a position. Children's Therapy in times of genocide, oppression and disclosure.
"Regulate Yourself First" — Who Resources the Caregiver?
"Regulate Yourself First" — Who Resources the Caregiver?
The instruction to regulate yourself before attending to others lands hardest on those already holding the most. What happens when the caregiver has nothing left?
The Problem Isn't Your Nervous System
The Problem Isn't Your Nervous System
Anxiety, burnout, and exhaustion aren't signs of personal failure. This piece explores how unnatural systems create distress—then sell us the cure.
Parenting & Big Feelings
Pause and Reflect: Supporting Children Through Big Feelings
Pause and Reflect: Supporting Children Through Big Feelings
Learn how pausing, reflecting, and responding with connection can support children through big feelings and emotional overwhelm.
When Co-Regulation Isn’t Possible: Parenting Without Capacity
When Co-Regulation Isn’t Possible: Parenting Without Capacity
Co-regulation assumes adult capacity — but many parents are living without it. This article looks at nervous system regulation, chronic stress, trauma load, emotional labour, and the impact of systemic conditions on parenting capacity and connection.
Why Some Children Avoid Demands
Why Some Children Avoid Demands
The Nervous System
What Does “Okay” Look Like for a Nervous System?
What Does “Okay” Look Like for a Nervous System?
What does “okay” really mean for a nervous system? This reflective piece explores common myths about regulation, calm, and resilience, and reframes nervous system responses as adaptive rather than something to optimise or perform.
The Nervous System That Grew Up Too Early
The Nervous System That Grew Up Too Early
How chronic dysregulation, boundary violation, and emotional inconsistency shape a child’s nervous system — and how those adaptations persist into adulthood.
The Wisdom of the Nervous System: States, Regulation, and Relationship
The Wisdom of the Nervous System: States, Regulation, and Relationship
Art Therapy
How Art Therapy Helps Children Express Big Feelings
How Art Therapy Helps Children Express Big Feelings
Exploring how art therapy supports children to express big emotions safely through creativity, parts-based understanding, and relational presence. Especially supportive for young children and those navigating overwhelm or emotional intensity.
Co-Regulation Through Creativity: How Art Therapy Supports Emotional Regulation in Children
Co-Regulation Through Creativity: How Art Therapy Supports Emotional Regulation in Children
How art therapy supports emotional regulation through co-regulation, creativity, and relational safety. A nervous-system-informed approach for children who experience big feelings, overwhelm, or difficulty expressing emotions.
Exploring art therapy for children’s wellbeing & development
Exploring art therapy for children’s wellbeing & development
Nature, Place & Ecology
Weaving Ecology into Therapeutic Spaces
Weaving Ecology into Therapeutic Spaces
A reflective exploration of how ecology can be woven into therapeutic spaces with children through relationship, presence, and emergence—without crossing into education or instruction.
Art Therapy, Ecology, and the Body of the Earth
Art Therapy, Ecology, and the Body of the Earth
An art therapy–informed reflection on ecology, relational wellbeing, and listening to the body and the living world.
Why Place Matters: Children, Connection, and a Sense of Belonging
Why Place Matters: Children, Connection, and a Sense of Belonging
Exploring Reggio Emilia’s idea of place as the third teacher and how connection to land, nature, and community supports children’s wellbeing in Footscray & Melbourne's Inner West.
Highly Sensitive Children
Exploring High Sensitivity Within the Spectrum
Exploring High Sensitivity Within the Spectrum
An exploration of high sensitivity within the broader neurodiversity spectrum. Examines sensory processing sensitivity, nervous system responsiveness, and how supportive environments help sensitive children and adults thrive.
How Highly Sensitive Children Can Teach Us to Pay Attention to What Matters
How Highly Sensitive Children Can Teach Us to Pay Attention to What Matters
A reflective exploration of high sensitivity as an adaptive, relational trait. Examines how sensitive children attune to environments, emotions, and injustice — and what they teach us about connection, safety, and systemic care.
How to Nurture Highly Sensitive Children: Balancing Sensory Overload and Emotional Growth
How to Nurture Highly Sensitive Children: Balancing Sensory Overload and Emotional Growth
Guidance for parents supporting highly sensitive children navigating sensory overload, emotional depth, and empathy. Explores nervous-system-informed support, boundaries, connection, and strength-based understanding of sensitivity.
Adults
When Experience Becomes Evidence: On Judgment, Worth, and Surveillance
When Experience Becomes Evidence: On Judgment, Worth, and Surveillance
A conceptual reflection on how inner experience is interpreted as evidence of worth across relational, cultural, and institutional contexts.
What comes after Healing? (Part One)
What comes after Healing? (Part One)
A reflective exploration of trauma, nervous system capacity, and what comes after healing. On grief, choice, and reimagining a life shaped by care rather than override.
What comes after Healing? (Part Two)
What comes after Healing? (Part Two)
An exploration of what comes after trauma-informed healing when capacity remains limited. This piece reflects on grief, nervous system realities, and how lives can be reimagined beyond idealised notions of regulation, productivity, or recovery.
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