Adi (pronounced Ay-dee) is a creative arts therapist with a passion for finding creative ways of expression, embodiment, and the power of using metaphors to access and move through complex personal material.
Adi comes with a background in interior architecture, design, and jewellery making. Her journey towards practising creative arts therapy developed from curiously searching for a deeper connection to self, emotion, materiality and healthy creative expression.
She specialises in arts psychotherapy and counselling services for individuals, as well as uniquely designed art making workshops for diverse groups and teams. Her vision is to foster development, growth and empowerment for individuals as well as the community through the use of creativity, play, and expressive arts therapies.
As an arts psychotherapist, she practices through humanistic, strength-based and phenomenological stance. Working alongside clients to collaboratively explore a ‘more than verbal’ approach to therapy. She assists in bringing awareness to the sensory, kinesthetic, perceptual, and affective information that emerges during the creative process. Adi integrates an intermodal approach to the therapeutic encounter, navigating between talk therapy, visual art making, dance/movement, somatic enquiry, creative writing, drama, as well as play.
Adi endeavours to assist others in connecting inner experience to expressiveness, entering their own sense of self through play and creativity—the ‘as if’ reality of endless possibilities.
Adi is fluent in Spanish, as a migrant she has lived experience in cultural diversity and welcomes all people, all ages and stages of life. Including those under the neurodiverse umbrella and LGBTQIA + support.
No prior experience in art making is necessary as it is process-based work.
Areas of experience include:
