Services at Counterbalance Wellbeing
Counterbalance Wellbeing offers therapy to children, young people, adults, parents and families. Counterbalance Wellbeing works with a diverse cross section of the Ballarat and surrounding community, offering services across two streams: Therapy Services and Support for Professionals.
Therapy Services
For children, young people, adults & parents
Support for Professionals
Supervision, Reflective Practice & Workshops
Therapy Services
For children, young people, adults & parents.
Counterbalance Wellbeing supports children, young people, and adults to explore and express their inner and relational worlds through a range of thoughtfully integrated therapeutic approaches, creating pathways for healing both with and beyond words. These include EMDR, play- and talk-based therapy, art therapy and Clay Field, each carefully tailored to the individual’s needs, developmental stage, and therapeutic goals.
Grounded in experience within early intervention and complex trauma, my work is underpinned by a deep respect for the diverse ways people engage in therapy. I support clients to make sense of their experiences at their own pace and to actively collaborate in shaping meaningful, personalised goals that foster regulation, connection, and lasting change.
Here at Counterbalance Wellbeing, I offer:
- Individual art therapy with children, young people and adults
- Clay Field with adults (Sensorimotor Art Psychotherapy)
- Relationally based dyadic art child and parent psychotherapy
- Child focused support for parents/caregivers
- Group art therapy workshops for children & young people
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Support for Professionals
Reflective Practice, Supervision & Workshops.
Through the integration of somatically informed, creative, and mindful art-making processes, art based reflective practices (within groups or in Supervision) support both insight into, and the strengthening of, one’s professional identity.
I invite professionals to hold in mind the complexity of their work; understand and combat the potential for vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout; focus upon self-care; and establish a pathway towards personal and professional growth.
Here at Counterbalance Wellbeing, I offer:
- Creative, arts-based approaches to Reflective Practice for professionals
- Clinical Supervision
- Art therapy experiential workshops (tailored to specific team need)
Upcoming Workshops
“What did you notice..?” An art-based reflective practice program for professionals.
Location: Bakery Hill
Dates: 2026
Time: Dates/times will vary, depending upon cohort and context.
By centering art making within the framework of reflective practice, the creative process supports deeper exploration of the professional experience that may be hard to put into words. What emerges often reveals new meanings, emotions, and insights about one’s work and the ways practitioners bring their whole self into what they do. Reflective Practice helps build self-awareness, emotional resilience, better decision-making, and ongoing professional growth.
Counterbalance Wellbeing’s program “What did you notice” is individualised for work context and responsive to a workforce that is time poor, with nine sessions scheduled in three phases across the year. Within a closed group, safety is built alongside familiarity and trust. This supportive environment invites participants to slow down, reflect, and create, explore their professional experiences with curiosity in an empathic, non-judgemental, and safe space.
Art experience or artistic skills are not required. The focus is not on making something perfect or aesthetically pleasing, but upon being curious about what unfolds through the creative process.
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PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS
Call It Out – 16 Days of Activism
Location: Bakery Hill
Dates: October 2025
Supported by the City of Ballarat’s Youth Services Team, the workshop series were held at Main Road Creative and in community. Facilitated by the art therapy team, children and young people were invited to get creative and explore what makes relationships strong, healthy, positive and safe, with an emphasis upon the importance of respectful relationships.
Container Contained: A Counterbalance Wellbeing Art Workshop Series
Location: Bakery Hill
Dates: August 2025
Exploration of a range of tactile and haptic art making processes centering on the theme of containment.