Thou
Art
Studio
Art Therapy & Spiritual care
with Pearl Taylor
Art therapy entails a therapeutic relationship that allows the expression and exploration of mental, emotional, and spiritual needs through visual art.
It uses creativity to listen, assist, and mend the tender parts of us.
It enables us to accept and establish deep relationships with ourselves while offering a tangible object for self-reflection and understanding.
Meet
Pearl
Pearl is:
a bright spark,
a calm presence,
a deep listener, inclusive and welcoming,
flexible,
person-centered
and
a
clever
cookie.
Pearl Taylor (she/her) is an art therapist (AThR) deeply curious about the endless ways creativity can aid the therapeutic process. With a deep belief that ‘creativity is not optional’ for our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health, Pearl offers individual and group creative care from her therapeutic art space, Thou Art Studio within Melbourne Integrative Therapies.
A former high school visual arts & special development teacher, Pearl is in private practice to help meet the needs of children (8+), teens, and adults who may desire or require, to supplement talk therapy modalities with a tangible object for reflection and meaning-making.
With a depth of understanding of how art materials affect us and our neurobiology, Pearl offers a wide range of person-centered art therapy approaches that may aid and assist in the articulation of distress, dysregulation, low mood, identity, life transition, or grief. She is a lover of symbols, myth, storytelling, messy play, messy emotions, and liminal spaces.
The
Landscape
Trained in both Art Therapy (La Trobe)and Spiritual Care (University of Divinity), Pearl blends facets of each to understand that our ‘mental health’ relies on meaning, purpose, identity, hope, connection, and relationship. From this place: deeplistening, inner resourcing, and creative exploration sit at the heart of the Thou Art Studio.
Pearl warmly welcomes private clients, social service referrals, and NDIS participants to her well-equipped art studio.
Well-versed in NDIS systems, procedures, and report writing, She walks alongside Plan and self-managed participants.
It is her delight to morph deeply creative, person-centered sessions, into articulate, concise functional capacity NDIS reports
Pearl has had the pleasure of bringing creativity, warmth and self knowledge to:
Thou Art
Studio
Address
Melbourne Integrated Therapies
8-10 Mansfield Street, Thornbury. Australia
Melbourneintegratedtherapies.com.au/
"Pearl has gone above and beyond many times, in doing so, created and nurtured possibility for my son. This compassionately empowers him to endure overwhelm and experience safety: helping us all build on this. What a gift."
Kate, Mother.
Sometimes she just knows.
I have this thought in the morning, like “ I need to feel grounded” and when I arrive Pearl will say “How about we start with the weighted blanket today?” and I ask her how she always knows what I need.
The room makes me feel so safe and Pearl's presence and knowing
allows many things to unfold.
- Anonymous, 45
“ I've done talk therapies since I left foster care and I never got to anything as rich as this before. The art
helps me say things I can’t
find words for.
I like the squishy clay"
Paul, 26
Pearl’s description of her work with XXX is what needs to happen. The co-regulation with someone safe is needed to understand how the trauma presents and shows up in the body. The work in art therapy is vital to XXX recovery and the transference of this experience into the community is paramount”
- Team email feedback from Monash personality disorder unit.
"Pearl's creativity and flexibility in meeting our participants where they were at, whilst holding hope for their future was inspiring to watch. Coming each week, Pearl's presence was a welcome addition to our weekly activities”.
Melbourne City Mission
Pearl is an exceptional art therapist.
Her warm, knowledge and skills are an asset to the profession and all she walks beside.
Colleauge.
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pricelist
$ 194 - 50min art therapy session.
Hardship scholarships available.
$ 220 - 80min art therapy session.
Hardship scholarships available.
$ 194 - NDIS rate (Capacity Building: Self/Plan)
$ 66 - Parent feedback session.
$ 90 - Art Therapy consultation:
Clinical or administrative.
$ 0 - Discovery call
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Privacy
You are always in control of your data. At request, you may request your records.
Pearl will collect data surrounding your wellbeing.
This is private and confidential unless legally bound.
Pearl will collect photos of your artwork and saved with encrypted software
These will never be used without permission.
24hr Cancellation policy.
Complaints
Your satisfaction, wellbeing and ability to be heard is vital and very important to Pearl.
Please email Pearl at hello@pearltaylor.com.au outlining your concern.
If you would like to make an NDIS complaint, see link.
The ANZACATA Code of Ethics articulates and promotes the ethical principles, and sets specific standards to guide both creative arts therapists, and members of the public, to a clear understanding and expectation of what is considered ethical and professional conduct, by creative arts therapists.
Code of ethics
You can be you
with me
This is not a crisis service.
But you matter.
If you are seeking urgent mental health, medical or crisis services; please call:
- 000 Police, Ambulance, Fire
- 1800RESPECT (1800 7377328) Family Violence.
- 13 11 14 Lifeline.
