Ipsarty Creative Care Collective

11/06/2026

Creative care about a modality- it’s a movement. It’s choosing creative ways to meet people in therapeutic spaces.

A commitment to staying curious, flexibility and honouring agency over expertise.

07/06/2026

The Ipsarty Creative Care Collective is a shared studio for independent practitioners whose work is grounded in care, creativity, relationship, and deep respect for the complexity of the human experience.

It has grown from my belief that there are many ways to support people well, and that no single modality, profession, or framework holds all the answers… how can it when all humans are so very individual?

Within these studio walls, you might find play therapists, arts therapists, counsellors, social workers, OT’s, speech therapists, educators, facilitators, and practitioners from a range of helping professions, each bringing their own way of listening, responding, creating, and walking alongside others. Support of course by a magical PINK floor 🤭

The Collective is united, not how we work, but how we see people.

As capable, as beautifully complex, and as the experts in their own experience.

This is a place for practitioners to meet with clients, run groups, host workshops, learn alongside one another, and build practices that reflect who they are.

For clients, families, and the wider community, it is a place to discover values aligned lived experience practitioners offering different pathways into healing, growth, connection, and self-understanding.

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing more of the space and the vision.

If you’re a practitioner curious about joining the Collective, or someone interested in future offerings within the space (maybe you’re looking for a unicorn therapist), you’ll find links to join the relevant waitlists in my bio.

For now, though…

Welcome to the Creative Care Collective. 🤍

13/05/2026

How are we supposed to heal the inner child when we’re only looking after the adult in the room?

Somewhere we’ve forgotten that the arts, ritual, community.. were the original healers.
Not the analysis, not the note taking, not the “tools”, not the diagnosis.

Children don’t need to be taught wonder. They live inside it.

And that wonder? It’s not something we grow out of. It’s something we get slowly conditioned to stop paying attention to.
Awe pulls people out of the cage their mind made for them. Back into their body and back into the present moment.
Annnnd back into this radical idea that life is actually magic.
And even more radical.. that so are they.
When it comes to therapy… That’s the whole point.
To hold the torch steady enough that someone finds their way back to their power - self trust - self compassion.

When we bring creativity and whimsy back into the room, we stop being the all-knowing expert and start being beside someone.

Their inner child already knew that. We’re just finally making room for them.

Every element of the Ipsarty studio was chosen with the inner child at the center.
Designed from the ground up as a space where the whole person could walk in.. to just be. Or maybe even step into a state of curiosity.

And now I’m opening it to practitioners who believe that therapy needs to be delivered differently, and in beautiful spaces that soothe and invite wonder.

Welcome to the creative care movement.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

09/05/2026

This is where it all began.
So much of what I know now was learned here.

Holding people.
Making mistakes.
Starting over.
Learning how to lead.
Learning how to trust myself.
Learning that business is cyclical, seasonal and you must weather the winter, and compost the garden (or be the compost).. for it to grow.

At the time, I had no idea how much this season would shape me. How much of myself I needed to meet, wrestle and dance with.
I was just trying to create something honest and human and joyful.

What a gift this has been to walk through the messy, tender, stretchy parts of building something from the ground up. And now come to a place where I can share what I’ve learned and walk alongside others building their own dreams.

This garage holds so much of the woman, therapist, mother, mentor and founder I’ve become.
And even though the grief of letting go remains, gosh I’m proud of what I’ve created and everything I’ve learned along the way. It’s all prepared me for the creative mentor shoes I was always meant to step into.

07/05/2026

It’s an ending but it’s not the end. It turns out you cannot step into the new version by holding onto the old. So after 8 years of devotion to Ipsarty as an Arts therapy practice and over 500 clients, a host of students and mentoring some incredible therapists.. I let it go. And I was flooded with grief and gratitude for everything this practice has been. Rebirth is painful but worth it- and what’s coming will be. Still a mentor, an advocate and a therapist but just a different format and wider impact. Stepping into supporting other practitioners and creative leaders and this truly magical studio.. she gets to take on a whole new adventure 🌥️🌈

07/05/2026

Mothers in business must honour the mother first. I’ve been feeling a lot lately like I’m disappointing everyone everywhere I turn.
I think this is the part nobody really talks about honestly. Not the juggle… we’ve heard enough about the juggle. I mean the specific weight of being someone that a lot of people are counting on, and becoming a mother again at the same time, and realising those two things are not as compatible as you told yourself they would be.
I built something I was proud of. I had expectations of myself that felt reasonable before she came. And then she came, and what felt reasonable stopped being true, but the expectations stayed. Mine and everyone else’s.
I’m learning- slowly, and not always gracefully- that honouring the mother in me is not the same as letting everyone down. Even when it feels exactly like that.
If you’re in this too, I just want you to know I see it. . It’s what happens when you’re trying to be everything to everyone before you’ve figured out what you need to be to yourself first.

16/10/2025

You’ve tried the mums groups.
You’ve tried talk therapy.
But words can’t always hold the whole experience of motherhood. The bigness of it. The shadow and the light.

Creatively Nurtured is a term creative wellbeing program designed to nurture the mother–baby relationship •••
where art becomes a language of connection, safety, and shared joy. And tends the undercurrents of Lady Matresence and her initiations.

Attachment-focused. Evidence-based. Heart-led.

✨ Term registrations open— only 6 spaces available
📍 Ipsarty Studio, Warana Sunshine Coast

Comment “nurtured” and we’ll send the info to your inbox.

Mama, you don’t want to miss this magic. Moments co created here are memories you’ll keep forever. And you just might walk away realising you’re wholeheartedly enough for that little soul who chose you.

24/09/2025

Calling all SUPPORT WORKERS 📣 We’re building something for you and we need your help.

✨ Art of Support is taking shape 🤲🏻 and Craig is offering free online 1:1 sessions (limited time) to help design it with you.

Be part of shaping the space before our first group workshop in October.

Mondays + Wednesdays | Online with Craig
Comment “Support” and we’ll send you the link to book.

Studio sessions are also available at $35.

15/09/2025

FREE ONLINE ARTS THERAPY FOR SUPPORT WORKERS!!
We’re building something for support workers — but we can’t build it without you.

Ipsarty is a local expressive arts therapy studio on the Sunshine Coast. We’re creating Art of Support — a new program for support workers to professionally develop, debrief, reflect, and restore through arts therapy.

As part of his Masters placement (and his own lived experience as a support worker), our facilitator Craig is offering free 1:1 sessions on Mondays and Wednesdays online, and heavily discounted sessions of $35 in our Warana studio.

These sessions give you confidential space to unpack the realities of support work — and they give Craig the practice he needs as he prepares to launch the very first Art of Support workshop on Wednesday 22nd October.

✨ Spaces are limited. Your voice and story will help shape this program from the inside out.

https://www.ipsarty.com/book-a-session

Because this space is for support workers — and it can only be built with you.

Ipsarty Arts Therapy acknowledges that we live, work and come together on Gubbi Gubbi country. We pay our respects to all Gubbi Gubbi peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this beautiful and abundance land, and elders past, present, and emerging and extend this acknowledgement to all A...

09/09/2025

The Duckett Review has confirmed the evidence:
🎨 Arts Therapy works.
🎶 Music Therapy works.

But alongside this recognition came something deeply disheartening — a recommendation to reduce our pay rates and align us with counsellors.

This undermines the years of training, registration, and responsibility we carry as allied health professionals. It ignores the evidence of our impact. And it risks driving skilled therapists out of the sector, leaving participants with fewer choices and less access to care.

This isn’t just about pay.
It’s about justice.
It’s about valuing the essential role arts therapists play in trauma recovery, disability support, and whole-person healing.

We will keep holding space with integrity, evidence, and heart. But we cannot stay silent while our profession is asked to carry more for less. And truthfully, I’m not sure what this means for us in the NDIS space going forward. This is something we will need to sit with.

👉 Share this post.
👉 Speak up when you can.
👉 Stand with arts therapists — for fair recognition, for participant choice, for a sector that values the fullness of this work.

Because not all stories are told in words. And every story deserves to be heard — and funded.