Counselling and Art Therapy Services
Heal, live a life of wholeness and happiness, learn to navigate life’s oceans and find your meaning again
For people, parents and guardians looking for guidance with neurodiversity, ASD and ADHD, chronic illness, disability, trauma and stress.
I am an LGBTIQA+ therapist and advocate a safe space for all
Get strategies to help you manage anxiety and triggers and reduce panic
Everyone needs a little help sometimes.
Learn and use psychologically proven strategies that can be easily done anywhere, any time, to help you reduce your feelings of anxiety and panic at the onset of triggers.
Click below to enter your details and receive your ebook of 5 Circuit Breakers to Manage Anxiety and Triggers
I’ve been where you are right now
Frustrated, completely burnt out. Wanting desperately to feel better, whole, but not sure how to make it happen, who could help.
I’ve been there. I know how hopeless it can feel. After years of struggling through abuse, living with undiagnosed ASD and battling with chronic illness, a dark cloud of trauma hanging over me, I managed to find a way to start to heal; art.
Thus Manta Ray Creative Therapies was born, a company that prioritises you and your needs, allowing you to express, explore and navigate yourself through your journey.
Are you ready to feel whole again? Ready to find happiness and purpose in your life?
Are you a parent or guardian looking for a way to help your child express themselves and develop strategies to cope in life?
Click below to start healing.
Chronic Illness & Disability
Do you struggle with a chronic illness or disability?
Life is hard, but add in the complexity of a chronic illness or disability, and it can be like trying to scale a mountain during a blizzard. Many people who live with a chronic illness or a disability can feel like the world they live in just isn’t set up for them, or daily living can prove to be a chore that leaves them drained of energy and feeling frustrated.
Therapy and art can help provide sufferers of chronic illnesses and disabilities a space to be themselves, reach their potential with considerations to their individual needs, and celebrate the goals, no matter how big or small. Life with a chronic illness or disability can be a sliding scale, and you have a right to therapy that is able to accommodate you on your good days and your bad ones.
Trauma & Stress
Trauma happens with you’re faced with a stressful and often frightening situations and events that you cannot control. It can leave you feeling scared, alone, angry, frustrated and sad.
Stress is a part of life, but it can sometimes become too much for us to cope with. It can manifest into physical symptoms of pain and sickness, and you can feel sad, angry and frustrated.
Therapy and art can help you to move through your trauma, helping you to find safety and peace in the now, and help to alleviate stress by drawing upon supports and strengths to help you navigate through it.
SERVICES
Neurodiversity
Are you neurodivergent or the parent of a neurodivergent child?
Life can be hard for those living with neurodiversity. It’s common for people to feel broken, like they don’t fit in or belong in society. It can be isolating, lonely and pretty scary.
But it doesn’t need to feel like that. Therapy and art are powerful tools that allow practice of self-kindness, empowering individuals to manage challenges by drawing upon their own talents and strengths, and aid them in navigating a world that doesn’t always feel accommodating.
Grief and Loss
We all experience grief and loss in some way. Whether it be as a child changing schools, divorce or a break up, moving to a new city or country, job loss, a medical diagnosis, the loss of a loved one be it animal, pet or plant, or the multitudes of other ways we can experience loss, grief is hard. It can leave us feeling depressed, angry, make us lash out or isolate. We can feel isolated and alone.
Therapy and art can help you as your walk through your grief journey, guiding you to a place of peace where you can honour the old and learn to accept the new, and once more find happiness within your life.