What we offer
Individual Art Therapy & Counselling
Yellow Gum Art Therapy Studio
Open 7 days a week
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Monday to Thursday (Therapy Dog Present)
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Saturday & Sunday
Based in Mill Park, located in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
Our studio is a welcoming and creative environment for in-person therapy sessions, featuring a wide range of art, play, and sensory materials for a creative therapeutic experience tailored to your goals.
**located upstairs at The Stables Shopping Center, Suite 5. No lift/wheelchair access.
Telehealth Art Therapy & Counselling
Our telehealth Art Therapy and Counselling sessions offer accessible, creative support for your mental health wherever you are, from the comfort of your own home.
Sessions through Zoom or phone, can provide a safe supportive space to explore thoughts and feelings and may incorporate using creative techniques such as art journaling, expressive art making, crafting together whilst in conversation, exploring creative online resources, reflecting on creative strategies to use outside of sessions, guided visualisation, working with photographs and mental imagery.
We are able to work creatively with the materials you have on hand or provide you some ideas on what to purchase.
Therapy Dog assisted therapy sessions
Available: Monday to Thursday with Alana only at Yellow Gum Art Therapy Studio
Evie & Alana are certified through Therapy Animals Australia
as a Therapy Dog & Therapy Dog Handler Team
Therapy Dog site visits
Have Evie comfort your clients a visit
For health services, hospitals, group home or community facilities
*Evie unfortunately does not visit during art therapy sessions
Art Therapy Supervision
Supervision with Alana Stewart, Registered Art Therapist & Supervisor
For Art Therapy & Therapist Professionals
Reflect on your practice, develop confidence, look after your professional self.
Conducted via Zoom or at Yellow Gum Art Therapy Studio
Home Visits for NDIS Participants
Let us travel to you.
Our Art Therapist's can visit you for individual sessions from the comfort of your own home, including supported independent living group housing.
School Visits
Individual Art Therapy for children
Conveniently at their school environment
We can visit:
We can visit: Preston, Fairfield, Thornbury, Northcote, Thomastown, Reservior, Epping, Lalor, Mill Park, Bundoora, South Morang, Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Eltham, Bellfield, Kingsbury, Macleod, Rosanna, Coburg, Brunswick, Pascoe Vale, Fawkner, Hadfield, Oak Park, Glenroy, Camberfield, Broadmeadows, Coolaroo, Dallas, Meadow Heights, Craigieburn, Roxyburgh Park
*Please contact us if your suburb is not listed but you are close by to one of these areas
Forest Therapy
Forest Therapy in Melbourne's northern areas.
Private Bookings in Hume or Whittlesea: Friday, Saturday or Sunday
Forest Therapy is a 2 to 3 hour immersive guided experience outdoors in nature. It is an evidence-based public health approach aimed to help you slow down and experience more calm and relaxation alongside known health benefits from peer reviewed research.
~ Meet Your Guide & Therapist ~
Alana Stewart, INFTA-Certified Forest Therapy Guide
As a Master’s-trained Art Therapist and Registered Clinical Counsellor, Alana brings a deep passion for supporting mental health and well-being through creative and experiential methods, including connecting people to nature. Certified in forest therapy with the International Nature and Forest Therapy Alliance, she values the role that time in nature plays in fostering human health.
Alana's approach is grounded in eco-psychology, eco-psychotherapy, and ecological methods, embracing the inseparable relationship between people, all creatures, and the natural environment. She offers 1:1 outdoor counselling and art therapy sessions that weave in evidence-based practices from forest therapy, along with private bookings for immersive 2- or 3-hour forest therapy experiences.
Low cost casual online self care sessions
Facilitated by Alana Stewart, a series of low cost online events to support you to learn art based and nature based processes to feel calm and regulated. Cost starts at $20 with some free and pay it forward options.
Other groups
Group sessions at our Yellow Gum studio and workshops can be organised and facilitated on request. Please get in touch to speak more.