NDIS Therapy

Space Whale provides creative arts therapy / counselling for self and plan managed NDIS participants

Creative arts therapy integrates counselling with creative processes — visual art, movement, clay, sound, storytelling, and other embodied ways of expressing.

It's an evidence-based therapy support that helps you build and maintain skills and independence while honouring all the ways you communicate and make meaning — not just through words.

This multimodal approach provides sensory, emotional, and cognitive regulation, and is particularly effective for neurodivergent people.

Abstract colorful artwork with floral and geometric patterns in pink, blue, yellow, and green.
Arrangement of dried leaves, seed pods, and twigs on dark gray paper with a blue border, placed on a patterned surface.

How a creative arts therapy session works.

Lit guides you to express yourself using things like: painting, drawing, clay, writing, movement, sound, storytelling, puppetry, print making and more.

You'll have the opportunity to explore the things that matter to you and to choose the ways you express yourself.

A whimsical illustration featuring a large, leafless tree with a decorated background of colorful flowers, a small person with a wide-brimmed hat walking a dog, a setting or rising sun in the sky, and some mushrooms on the ground.

You don't need any experience as an artist, and you won't be judged on your art making.

Lit creates a safe space for you to explore different art modalities, and guides you to creatively represent feelings, emotions, relationships and ways of being.

A creative arts therapy session may assist you to explore and develop:

  • Self-expression through making art

  • Creativity for self-awareness and problem solving

  • Mindfulness and self-care practices

  • Communication skills for relating to others

  • Expressing needs and boundaries

  • Strategies and skills for dealing with stress, anxiety, physical and mental health challenges 

  • Working towards personal and life goals

Art therapy can also be fun and playful.

NDIS Service Delivery

Supports

Creative arts therapy is an evidence-based therapy support that helps build and maintain skills and independence in emotional regulation, communication, relationship management, self-expression, and working towards NDIS goals.

This therapy support can help you work towards a range of NDIS goals, including: - Health and wellbeing - Self-care and self-management - Daily living skills - Community participation - Social skills and communication - Confidence building - Improved relationships - Employment readiness - Education and learning - Improved living arrangements - Life transitions - A meaningful life worth living!

This support is provided by Lit McCarthy:

  • PACFA-registered Certified Practising Counsellor

  • Master's in Therapeutic Arts Practice (the MIECAT Institute)

  • Working with Children Check

  • Ongoing clinical supervision and continuing professional development

Costs

Sessions are funded under Support Category: Capacity Building - Improved Daily Living

Charged at NDIS price guide rates for Counselling (Item 15_043_0128_1_3 - $156.16/hour).

FEES:

- 60 minutes: $156.16

- 90 minutes: $234.24

ADDITIONAL FEES:

  • Non-face-to-face time (case notes, coordination): Up to 15 mins per session

  • Progress reports: Up to 2 hours annually

  • Travel time (in-home visits within 30 mins of Booker Bay): Charged at 50% of hourly rate.

Book a free 15 minute consult to discuss how creative arts therapy can support your NDIS goals.

service delivery

Lit McCarthy delivers art therapy and counselling sessions:

  • At my home studio in Booker Bay (Darkinjung Country, Central Coast NSW)

  • Outdoors at nature locations on Darkinjung Country

  • Via telehealth (Zoom) anywhere in Australia

  • In-home visits for participants living within 30 minutes of Booker Bay (travel time may be charged)

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