What is Arts Therapy?
Arts Therapy combines the Arts with Psychology and can include visual arts, drama, music and dance. Arts Therapy promotes health and wellbeing and offers a chance to develop skills using Arts techniques.
Who can participate in Arts Therapy?
Arts Therapy can benefit anyone. You don’t have to be an artist to participate. We work with people who have varying abilities, and those who have mobility challenges and require specialist services.
What are the benefits?
Arts Therapy operates on a variety of levels: physical, emotional, cognitive, imaginative and social, improving quality of life. It is particularly effective in meeting the needs of children and adults with disabilities or illness, where opportunities for self-expression might otherwise be limited. Clients provide their own goals for attending sessions.
What is does the IRIS Arts Therapy programme include?
Art Therapy: A visual arts approach that mainly includes drawing, painting and sculpture. People are given the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings in a way that helps them in their health, relationships and life style. There is the potential to learn, grow, make personal choices and develop goal plans, or just to enjoy engaging in the art processes.
Who: Arts Therapist: Marion Gordon-Flower
When: Fridays only by appointment – individual sessions 45 minutes
Where: IRIS, 13 Coyle Street, Sandringham
Marion Gordon-Flower - BMA, Dip. T, MAAT (Clinical) Hons
Marion is a qualified Arts Therapist with a Masters of Arts in Arts Therapy (Clinical) from Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design. She has in-depth experience in the areas of Brain Injury and in Mental Health, and works closely with each client to achieve the very best outcome.
Prices
$45 for a One on One Session with our Art Therapist
Purchase a 12 Session Concession Card for $450 and recieve 2 FREE sessions.
Please be aware a $10 fee is charged for clients who do not notify us that they are unable to attend one on one sessions.
Drama Therapy Group: Drama Therapy offers a safe, fun way for clients to share with others and to learn to express themselves and their personal stories. Drama Therapy includes: improvisation, role play, mime, music and movement, storytelling, masks, theatre games and scripted drama. Drama Therapy is a safe, fun way for people to have the opportunity to share with others, express themselves; experiment and take risks and initiate change.
Who: Drama Therapist: Paula Crimmens
When: Mondays only by appointment 12.00 – 2.00 pm, 1 hour sessions
Where: Sandringham Community Centre
Price: $15 per session
Paula Crimmens - MAT
Paula pioneered the use of Drama Therapy in special education in New Zealand and is the author of "Drama Therapy and Storymaking in Special Education" published by Jessica Kingsley publishers. She trained as a Sesame Movement and Drama therapist at the Central School of Speech and Drama, England in 1988 and went on to supervise drama therapy students in their clinical placements.
She has a Masters in Arts Therapies and is also the author of "Storymaking and Creative Groupwork with Older People". Paula is Creative Director of Interacting, a disability arts theatre company where she devises and directs original productions with actors, writers and performance artists.