Aora Therapy

01/08/2025

🖊️ Tell Your Story – Narrative Art 🎨⁠
This week in art therapy we explored Narrative Art – using words to shape an image and tell your story.⁠
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We started with black markers to create patterns and shapes using words, then added colour with pencils to bring emotion and meaning to the piece.⁠
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It was expressive, personal, and deeply therapeutic. A beautiful way to reflect and share something that matters to you. 💛

06/05/2025

What a pleasure it was to spend time with the residents of Estia Health Figtree!
We painted daisies 🎨 and created sunsets with chalk pastels 🌅.
Loved hearing about their lives 💬—such warmth and wisdom.
I hope I brought as much joy to them as they gave me. ❤️

27/03/2025

🌟 Every day, I’m lucky enough to combine two things I love: helping others and discovering beauty along the way. This striking street art caught my eye today 🎨🌈—a reminder that art can be bold, inspiring, and full of life, just like the people I meet on my journey.

How has art inspired you lately?

15/03/2025

✨Your mind is great at logic, planning, and keeping you safe… but your heart? ❤️ It knows your true desires, your passions, and what truly lights you up.

Sometimes, overthinking drowns out intuition. When you’re stuck in doubt, take a breath, quiet the noise, and tune in. What feels right? What makes your soul feel at peace? 🌿

02/03/2025

🌿 Monday Mental Health Check-In 🌿

Mondays can feel overwhelming, but they’re also a fresh start! 💫 Take a moment today to check in with yourself:

✅ Have you moved your body today? 🚶‍♀️🏋️‍♂️
✅ Are you nourishing yourself with good food? 🥗🍓
✅ Have you taken a deep breath and slowed down? 😌💙
✅ Did you show yourself kindness today? 💕

Small steps lead to big changes. Let’s make this week one of balance, self-care, and positivity! ✨

18/02/2025

Sticks and Inks: Playing with the Unexpected ✨

There’s something freeing about picking up a stick, dipping it into ink, and just seeing what happens. No precision, no perfect lines—just movement, flow, and a bit of chaos. 🎨✨

We start with play. Letting the stick glide, scratch, and dance across the page. No expectations, no right or wrong. Just marks, textures, and surprises. 🖌️🌿

Then, we choose a still life—a flower, a cup, a piece of fruit—and begin to explore its form. Not by controlling it, but by allowing it to emerge. Letting go of the outcome, trusting the process. 🍂☕🍋

This is about definitely letting go. Letting what needs to happen, happen. There’s joy in surrender, in seeing beauty in the unpredictable. 💫

04/02/2025

💛 Letting Go & Rebuilding: Endometriosis Art Workshop 💛

This week, I had the privilege of running an expressive art workshop for 10 incredible women experiencing endometriosis at a retreat held at Cedar Spring Estate 🌿✨.

My activity focused on the themes of letting go and rebuilding 💭➡️💪. The women were guided to brain-dump their thoughts and emotions onto paper 📝💙—a raw and powerful release. Then, using pastels, they coloured over their words, softening the intensity of what they had expressed 🎨💫.

For a true emotional release, I invited them to tear up their papers—symbolizing letting go of pain, frustration, and grief 🧩🔥. From those torn pieces, they reconstructed something new—something that embodied hope, strength, and peace 🌱🕊️.

This was a deeply moving experience, and I didn’t capture many photos out of respect for the women’s privacy. However, I will be sharing their powerful artwork as a testament to their resilience and healing 💛✨.

Healing is a journey, and art can be a powerful tool for transformation. 🎭💖

20/01/2025

Transform Your Story Through Art 🎨✨

Tell a story 🖊️💭

💡 Step 1: Write your story in a paragraph.
💡 Step 2: Reduce it to two sentences.
💡 Step 3: Boil it down to three words.

🎨 Using those three words, create a pastel drawing—an image of the story or the feelings it brings. 🌈 Use colours and textures to express it all.

✂️ Then, cut up the image and rearrange it. Piece by piece, you’ll create a NEW artwork—a symbol of transformation, healing, and taking back control. 💕 This process is about letting go of trauma, emotions, and the past to rewrite your story. Full stop.

💫 Your story deserves to move forward. What will you create next?

08/01/2025

Hi, I’m back! 🌿 After taking a break, I’m so excited to start offering walk and talk counselling and mobile sessions this year.

If you’ve been thinking about seeking support but don’t feel comfortable in a clinical setting, I’d love to meet you outdoors 🌳, by the beach 🌊, or in the comfort of your own home 🏡.

Sometimes a change of scenery can make all the difference. Let’s walk, talk, and work through things together.

📩 DM me or visit aoratherapy.com to learn more!
I can’t wait to get started 🚶‍♀️🌞

Hi I'm Cheree and I'm a qualifed and passionate art therapist. Art therapy is a non verbal psychotherapy, where the power of art is used to express our emotions, behaviours and thought patterns.

22/12/2024

🎄✨ Wishing all my amazing clients, friends, and family a very Merry Christmas!

This time of year can be full of joy for many, but it can also be challenging for some. 💖 Be kind to yourself – take this time to eat 🍽️ drink🍷laugh 😂 and love ❤️.

I’ll be back to work on the 6th of Jan for an exciting 2025! 🎉

Take care and enjoy the holiday season! 🎁

05/12/2024

Road Mapping 🌟🛤️

This week, I worked with a student on creating a road map. Each part of their life was represented as a road, all leading to them 🧑‍🎨✨. Using colors, lines, and patterns 🎨📏, we explored how each road feels. By the end, we could clearly see which roads needed work 🚧🛠️. A wonderful activity for anyone seeking clarity and direction 🗺️💡!

25/11/2024

🌟 Meet Naomi 🌟

It’s always a pleasure creating with her! This session used a solution-focused technique 🎨✂️. Participants selected cut-out images and enhanced them with colours, lines, and shapes to bring the pieces to life.

In life, we’re often pushing and pulling against challenges, but this process is about finding creative ways to problem-solve and come out stronger on the other side 💪✨.