Creative Arts & Play Therapy Perth
Glen Forrest, Perth Hills
Discover Creative Arts & Play Therapy in Perth Hills with Trulybe.
Kim Holland offers professional creative arts therapy and play therapy in Perth's Glen Forrest studio. Specialising in art therapy for children, adolescents, and adults, Kim provides a safe, nurturing space for emotional healing through creative expression. Whether seeking sand tray therapy for young children or art-based therapy for adults, our Perth Hills location offers a tranquil bush setting perfect for deep therapeutic work.
Creative arts therapy Perth services at Trulybe include art-making, painting, drawing, clay work, sand tray therapy, play therapy, and movement therapy. This therapeutic approach is particularly effective for clients in Perth Hills, Kalamunda, Mundaring, and surrounding areas seeking non-verbal healing modalities.
Creative arts therapy is particularly effective for Perth families seeking support for children with anxiety, grief, or developmental challenges. It's also ideal for adults preferring a creative, body-based approach to healing rather than traditional talk therapy.
What is Creative Arts Therapy? Perth's Gentle Healing Approach
It is a particularly gentle form of enquiry and discovery, perfect for children and adolescents, who, because of age and stage, are not developmentally ready to work with challenges directly.
At our Glen Forrest studio in the Perth Hills, creative arts therapy sessions take place in a peaceful, private bush setting designed to help nervous systems relax and creativity flow naturally.
It is also ideal for adults looking for a non-verbal approach to therapy or who prefer to work creatively from the space of the unconscious, believing that it can be deeply transformative to do so.
It is an effective standalone therapy or can work beautifully to supplement other therapies. I offer art-making, crafts, play therapy, sand tray therapy and movement therapy. No prior experience or skill is needed to benefit from creative arts therapy and the emphasis is on the process of expression, not the final product, alleviating all pressure to get something right!
Art Therapy for Children, Teens & Adults | Perth
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Perth families choose our Glen Forrest studio for children's art therapy and play therapy services. We specialise in:
Anxiety and worry in children
Processing difficult emotions
Gentle emotional support
Autism spectrum support
ADHD emotional regulation
Grief and loss
School challenges and stress
Family transitions (divorce, new siblings, moves)
Building confidence and self-expression
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Sand tray therapy with hundreds of figurines
Art-making materials and crafts
Outdoor garden play and nature connection
Movement and gross motor activities
Cubbies, water play, and creative exploration
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Many Perth adults find creative arts therapy more effective than traditional counselling for:
Processing emotions non-verbally
Accessing unconscious material
Gentle emotional exploration
Grief that's hard to put into words
Exploring identity and self-expression
Stress relief and mindfulness
Personal growth and self-discovery
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Acrylic and watercolor painting
Clay work and sculpture
Drawing and sketching
Collage and mixed media
Writing therapy
Movement and dance therapy
Walking therapy in nature
Sand Tray Therapy | Glen Forrest
Sand tray therapy and generalised play therapy are perfect for younger children, providing them with the opportunity to safely act out what is real for them, and providing a forum in which different responses to play scenarios can be explored. There are a variety of figurines, models, toys, games, crafts and art-making materials for indoor play.
INFORMATION
Start your journey
Every client is an individual and has their own unique path. My job is to tune in, listen deeply, and support you on your journey towards true health.
What to expect in a Session:
I offer Creative Arts and Play Therapy from my workspace located in Glen Forrest in the Perth Hills, a private tranquil bush setting surrounded by trees and birds. My dogs can wander in and out (or not!). It's a space designed to put you at ease and allow your nervous system to relax.
For Adults: Your session is for you. You can choose what creative art therapy medium you prefer on the day or I can help guide you towards what may support your enquiry. By way of illustration, if you are feeling strong emotions then acrylic paints can provide a tempered outlet in which to explore and process them. If you are feeling unsafe or vulnerable, then watercolours may provide a gentler free flowing way to express emotions. Clay work can help you embody and ground your experiences and movement therapy can help you do the same. Writing therapy can help you find clarity within your thinking process, as can drawing with pencils. The opportunities for connecting experience and expression are endless. All of the creative arts therapy processes can help you imaginatively access, support and process your life experiences within a safely held space.
For Children: Sand tray therapy and generalised play therapy are perfect for younger children, providing them with the opportunity to safely act out what is real for them, and providing a forum in which different responses to play scenarios can be explored. There are figurines, models, toys, games, crafts and art making materials for indoor play and the garden outdoors provides opportunities for gross motor skill development, balance work, water play, cubby building and so on. Art therapy, writing therapy and movement therapy are ideal for older children and adolescents as there is no expectation that they verbalise their issues before they are ready to do so.
As with other therapies I offer, I only work with what the client is comfortable working with and at a pace that allows for integration of discoveries. There is a natural regulating rhythm that can be facilitated within the session to ensure that overwhelm is avoided. I have great faith in the process and in the way things unfold. There is no pushing, just allowing and honouring the uniqueness of the individual within the therapeutic process.
Why Glen Forrest for Creative Arts Therapy?
Our Perth Hills location in Glen Forrest provides the perfect setting for creative arts therapy:
Surrounded by native bushland and wildlife
Optional therapy dog presence for comfort
Fully equipped art studio with all materials
Private, peaceful space for vulnerable expression
Outdoor areas for movement and nature connection
Flexible session lengths for children’s needs
Only 25 minutes from Perth CBD, 15 minutes from Midland, and easily accessible from Kalamunda, Mundaring, and surrounding Perth Hills communities.
What Creative Arts and Play Therapy can help with:
Anxiety and stress management through creative arts therapy
Trauma healing using art therapy and play therapy techniques
Grief support for children and adults in Perth
Self-awareness and emotional resilience building
Autism spectrum support through play therapy
ADHD emotional regulation via creative expression
Depression support using art-based therapeutic approaches
Relationship challenges and social skills development
Need help now?
If you are in immediate danger of harming yourself, call triple zero (000).
If you need to talk to someone urgently, the helplines and services below are available 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Call Lifeline Australia on 13 11 14
Beyond Blue Support Service on 1300 22 4636
Feel your pain, find your joy, and truly live.
Challenges can be explored from a space of safety and trust. We can discover a path forward to greater self awareness, resilience and mastery in your own life.
Book an appointment
You can book an in-person or online session. Feel free to contact me if you would like more information.
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Anyone can try Creative Arts Therapy. It can help with mental, emotional, physical and spiritual misalignments.
– Self Awareness
– Capacity & Resilience
– Grounding and clarity
– Discovering your joy
– Visioning and goal setting
– Understanding Relationships
– Grief
– Trauma
– Anxiety
– Depression
– Stress
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No you don’t. Anyone can participate in this process of expressing what it is that wants to be expressed. It is not the final product that carries value in a creative arts therapy session, it is the process and what is revealed through the process that can be incredibly healing.
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My qualification through Murdoch University is in art-based therapy, play therapy, sand-tray therapy and movement therapy.
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Yes. Children often don’t have the language or the cognitive understanding of difficulties they are experiencing. Adolescents often don’t have the language either or are reluctant to engage verbally. This type of therapy provides a means by which they can express themselves and integrate their experiences without necessarily needing to talk about themselves, or confront a reality that they are not developmentally ready to do in a conscious way.
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Yes. Your work is yours however I may ask to take a photo of it for reference during ongoing sessions.
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Working holistically with the mind and the body, facilitating a state of ease through the gentle release of trauma, conditioning and beliefs that no longer serve.
COUNSELLING
Discover your path forward in a safe space with gentleness and support. Learn to be truly present with your own unique experience of life.
love from our amazing clients
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I cannot recommend working with Kim highly enough. She is a wonderfully compassionate, supportive, and professional therapist.
A session with Kim always brings me back to my heart and I come away with a greater understanding of myself. She brings a lovely calm and caring presence to her sessions; you truly feel listened to and that she is present from her heart.
I also appreciate Kim’s simple reminder to breathe when navigating life’s challenges.
– JT
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Kim has the beautiful gift of effortlessly meeting and holding all parts of you with gentleness, honesty, compassion, humour and love.
Her sessions create a safe and grounded space to explore your inner world and how it relates to your experience of the outer world.
My personal journey with Kim over the past 4 years has led me closer to connection with and trust in life. I can’t recommend her highly enough!
– Shannon
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After an unexpected traumatic event I was in need of healing... but unsure what to do and who to see.
A friend suggested I make an appointment with Kim. After my first session I felt a weight had been lifted and released in the most gentle and safest way, clarity and a sense of calmness is what followed... Every subsequent time I have seen Kim I leave feeling like I have journeyed to my true self and have clarity on a deeper level....to guide me on a daily basis. I now feel lighter, energised, the clutter has been cleared and I am aligned with my true self and able to move with life not against it. Just an enormous thank you Kim...for your professional, healing, insightful and nurturing sessions.
– Mel, Stoneville WA
