Create · Inquire · Play
Using arts techniques, experiential arts therapy is an inquiry into parts of yourself, your values, your experiences and how you would prefer to be.
What Is Experiential Arts Therapy?
When we tell our story, we always tell the one we already know—so we only rehash old insights.
Arts therapy is all about shifting that paradigm. To unlearn old stories, tell and create new ones or discover hidden truths.
When we do arts therapy, we can use arts modalities…to learn new things, things that are unknown to us. For instance, if instead of telling the same story you’ve told a hundred times you try to draw something that stood out to you…you may learn something new about that moment.
Draw
Sculpt
Move
Tell
How a Session Works
Safe Creative Space
We begin by sharing a safe space together with lots of creative materials.
Choose Your Focus
You will be invited to think of something that feels important in your life right now…then make something creative about this.
Make & Reflect
Paint, draw, sculpt, move or write—and ask questions of your creation.
Discover & Co-Design
Uncover values, identify conflicts, and shape your preferred way of being.
Cara’s Credentials & Approach
- MIECAT-trained Arts Therapist
- MA (Therapeutic Arts Practice) & MA (Screen Studies)
- BA (Theatre Arts) & BA (Indigenous Knowledge, History & Heritage)
- Grad Cert Divinity, Diploma Youth Work, Cert IV TAE, TEFL
- Doctoral Candidate: “An inquiry into the paradigm shift from restraint and control to lightness, freedom and play…”
“When I was a child, I loved making up stories. For me, the librarians were the keeper of the stories…many threads of my life are about keeping, and giving, or telling, stories.”
Cara Flame
Core Values & Modalities
Collaborative Inquiry
You are the expert on your life; your therapist walks alongside as a companion to your discovery.
Intersubjective Connection
Cara lives to dance in this space—she runs Baba Yaga’s Dream Yurt to share creative moments.
Embodied Discovery
Your body remembers everything that has happened; it will tell its version of the story.
Modalities: Painting | Movement | Clay & Installations | Sound & Voice | Nature Play
