About Neroli

I completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts when I left high school and have been making art and exploring creativity ever since. But I never found art on its own was enough to help me make sense of things I didn’t understand. I had so many unanswered questions about life, how it worked, and why I sometimes felt like it didn’t work for me.

While completing a year of a Master of Teaching during COVID, I was struck by a learning module encompassing Attachment theory encouraging teachers to incorporate it in their work. I was familiar with the work of Attachment theory and fully appreciate the efficacy and impact it has in a therapeutic context. But it seemed like a very demanding task to place on an already extremely demanding profession. The degree of complexity and challenge in the lives of children, parents, carers, families and those tasked with teaching and educating seems immense in today’s world.

I had a moment of clarity that I needed to find a way of working with others - children, teens or adults - that attended deeply to their experience of being seen and heard and helped develop their unique skills and ways of navigating life and all that entails. So, I switched from teaching and undertook formal training in a Master of Art Therapy.

As I learned how engaging with materials and making can interrupt patterns of excessive thinking or ruminating and facilitate self-regulation to relieve feelings of stress and anxiety, I realised how much power there is in this simple process that is available and accessible to anyone.

The way I work is grounded in being with people in a therapeutic context that empowers them to access and generate skills in self-reflection, self-awareness, self-esteem, self-reliance, and resilience to use in their everyday life.