At Evolution Creative Arts Therapies, our mission is to ignite joy and transform lives through the transformative power of creative arts therapies.
At Evolution Creative Arts Therapies we believe in
JOY EMPOWERMENT INCLUSITIVITY INTEGRITY TRANSFORMATION
At Evolution Creative Arts Therapies, we’ve created a much-needed space in Melbourne’s west to support and improve the mental health and wellbeing of kids, teens, adults, and communities through our arts therapy programs.
Arts therapy is not about making pretty pictures. It’s about using the arts and a person’s creativity to reduce stress, anxiety and depression while increasing a person’s ability to build healthy, meaningful relationships and better interact with the world around us.
Through creative play for kids and arts therapy for teenagers, they improve their ability to learn and process information. They learn how to manage and express their feelings in a healthy way, which leads to better relationships with their family, peers, and social groups. Arts therapy helps builds their confidence and self-esteem.
“It’s not about learning to be a good artist, picking up a paintbrush, or just having fun. We help people of all ages experience the benefits of therapeutic change through the arts.”
Nyrelle Bade, Founder
Early in her career as a therapist, Evolution Creative Arts Therapies’ founder, Nyrelle Bade, discovered the positive outcomes of arts therapy after working with some very complex cases. She saw kids, teens, and adults thrive under an arts therapy program when other therapeutic and talking-based treatments hadn’t delivered the results they were striving for.
Arts therapy gives people the chance to use their body to create something meaningful. The process of creating something can give a person a sense of vitality that wasn’t there before. People can express their emotions in a way they can’t through therapy that is purely talk-based. During arts therapy, we talk about and reflect on what they created. Creating art and talking use different parts of our brain, and this can lead to better therapeutic results, sooner, especially for complex cases.
After working as an arts therapist for more than a decade, Nyrelle realised her vision to build a creative arts therapy clinical practice in Werribee.
It wasn’t long before Nyrelle started attracting other highly qualified and experienced arts therapists to work under our Evolution Creative Arts Therapies banner. Her vision was to give the community greater choice so each person can work with the therapist who is the best fit for their situation.
While art classes are plentiful in the Wyndham and Hobson’s Bay region, there’s nothing quite like our practice with its clinical focus. We use the arts in therapy to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the people who join our programs.
Everyone has the potential to grow and flourish—kids, teenagers, and adults—regardless of their background, life experience or disability. Using arts therapy, our therapists encourage and support that growth.
We offer a range of programs for kids, teenagers, and adults.
We’re flexible. Our team of arts therapists design and deliver tailored arts therapy programs in 1:1 individual sessions, group sessions, and via online workshops. We deliver our programs at our practice in Werribee or via TeleHealth. We deliver outreach programs to schools. Our therapists deliver 1:1 programs in homes for NDIS participants who cannot travel because of their disability or medical condition.
We use a range of creative arts therapies—from visual arts, music and drama to play, sand play, and sensory art and movement.
Through our intake process, we do an initial assessment. Because our therapists have a clinical background, we can review a person’s medical and therapeutic history to help us tailor a unique program.
After we deliver the program, we follow up with another assessment. For NDIS participants or if requested, that assessment is accompanied by a report that outlines what we did and the therapeutic results.
We’re a registered NDIS provider. If you have an approved NDIS plan, we can tailor a program to help you reach your goals.
We recognise that meaningful and long-term change can take time. Our assessment and reporting process helps make it easier to set and monitor short, medium and longer-term goals and secure further funding to help a person progress towards those goals.
Our provider number is 4050000894
Master of Arts Therapy (by Research)
Nyrelle has created a space in Melbourne’s west dedicated to providing creative arts therapies to support the mental health and wellbeing of the communities of Wyndham and Hobsons Bay.
Nyrelle is an arts therapist with a diverse therapeutic tool kit. She specialises in working with children who have low play skills, and teens and adults who have experienced complex trauma.
She is also a somatic experiencing practitioner. Integral somatic psychology, sand play, clay field therapy, and therapeutic touch are a part of her practice.
Using a mixed therapeutic style that reflects the diverse areas of therapy she has trained in, Nyrelle incorporates creativity, embodiment, and education into her approach. She helps those she treats to better understand their mental health condition.
Nyrelle is a ANZACATA and ACA approved supervisor.
She is a registered NDIS provider.
Julia’s background as a trained actor informs her therapeutic approach where she uses the creative arts to explore different perspectives, discover personalised coping strategies and develop real-life problem-solving skills.
From a young age, Maika has been fascinated by the way movement can mirror emotions and tell stories that words sometimes cannot.
Maika’s therapeutic approach is deeply anchored in her conviction that art, music, and movement are not merely forms of expression but are foundational tools for profound social, emotional and psychological growth and wellbeing. This belief has shaped her unique approach to therapy, where art, dance and movement are not just activities but vital communication languages that bridge the internal world of feelings and the external reality of behaviour.
Evolution Creative Arts Therapies acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Kulin Nation on which this practice stands.We recognise the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities of the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia.
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