Individual Art Therapy that comes to you!
Messy Hands, Happy Hearts is fully mobile...meaning that the therapy session comes to you! We bring everything required - all you need to supply is the space and enthusiasm!
Based in Morphett Vale, Southern Adelaide - Messy Hands, Happy Hearts will deliver services to where you are.
Within a 15km radius of Morphett Vale - Free of Charge
Including the following suburbs: Aberfoyle Park, Christies Beach, Hackham, Hallett Cove, Huntfield Heights, Happy Valley, Moana, Morphett Vale, Noarlunga, O'Halloran Hill, Old Noarlunga, O'Sullivan's Beach, Port Noarlunga, Reynella, Seacliff, Seaford and Sheidow Park…
Outside 15km radius - travel fee applies
Please contact us for a obligation free discussion of how we can make it possible for Art Therapy to come to you.
Prefer not to have Art Therapy at home? Other options are available!
There are a number of different alternatives to having an Art Therapy session in your own home; local libraries and community centres can often hire out rooms at low cost and sessions can be delivered in schools (with the schools permission). There are many different options available - get in touch to see what we can provide.
Get in touch today!
Get in contact and arrange an obligation free chat to see how Art Therapy can benefit you or someone you love.
Children's Art Therapy Sessions
45 minute session (with additional 15 mins for notes)
Children's sessions are kept short to due to little attention spans. 45mins is an ideal time for a little session for little ones focussed around a short art task and discussion around what comes out of the session.
Sessions are developed after consultation with parents (and other interested parties) and can focus on areas such as; emotional identification and regulation, developing self-calming strategies, increasing social skills, developing positive coping strategies, creating positive relationships, and other psycho-social areas.
Children's sessions will take into account the likes of the child, and these will often be built into the session. Many different areas of pop culture can be used and incorporated into the session and used as a tool of exploration. Children sessions can also include parent sessions. These sessions are designed to share information and help develop strategies that can be used to assist with personal development of the child.
Teen Art Therapy Sessions
60 - 90 minute session (with additional 15 mins for notes)
Teen session are a little longer to accommodate longer attention spans. The longer sessions also allow greater exploration of topics and issues as children begin to grow into teenagers.
Sessions can focus on areas such as; navigating the effects of hormones through developing self-care and self-soothing strategies, using self-expression to process new feelings, develop self-confidence and positive self image. Work can also centre on emotional development and identification and other psycho-social skills if required.
Sessions for teenagers will harness the individual likes of the client, but will also aim to expose them to new things and new forms of creative expression. Movie making, photography and creative writing can be added to explore deeper issues and emotions and help development self-awareness and self-confidence and was as developing other interests.
Adult Art Therapy Sessions
90 minute session (with additional 15 mins for notes)
Longer sessions designed for deeper exploration gives adults more time to create and explore. Adult sessions will usually focus on a small number of areas where self improvement or self-development are required.
Sessions are developed in consultation with the client and can focus on many areas including; self-development, improving self-confidence, developing self care strategies, exploring issues
Have an NDIS Plan?
NDIS Clients and Art Therapy
Plan and Self-Managed NDIS clients can access Art Therapy through their NDIS plans. Sessions will be designed around targeting participants NDIS goals, personal goals and developing strengths.
Click the link below to request an obligation free chat regarding how Art Therapy can assist NDIS clients.