2016, December 10, Art Therapy- Mandalas- Gestalt Approach

Practice this skill to be used with your clients and/or for your own personal growth

ART THERAPY- MANDALAS- GESTALT approach 

That life is circular... The unresolved conflicts are also circular...


Learn how to change the repetitive patterns of the clients using/creating/ modifying mandalas in a symbolic way.


Practice this skill to be used with your clients and/or for your own personal growth

Day:
December 10th, 2016

Time:
Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:00pm


Where:
Gestalt Art Therapy Centre
Ashgrove- Brisbane


Early Bird before December 2nd: $140.00



The mandalas workshop was a terrific experience! Thank you to everybody for your participation!

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2016, November 12&13 MASTERCLASS IN SAND PLAY THERAPY – A GESTALT APPROACH

A Powerful Method with Families, Children, Couples, Groups and individual sessions.

MASTERCLASS IN SAND PLAY THERAPY – A GESTALT APPROACH

In this weekend you will:

• Use creative methods to enhance your therapy practice with Sand Play tools.
• Learn how to facilitate and promote positive results with symbolic imagery
• Experience your own aspects of growth in symbolic imagery.
• Uncover the reasons why your clients may resist verbal counselling.
• Improve your skills working with traumas and early child painful history.
• Discover ways to clear bad memories and blocks to your own growth
• Find the way of facilitating sand play figures and understand their unconscious meanings.
• Enable the clients to discover the self-supports and deal with their life crises.

Days:

November 12 & 13, 2016

Time:

Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:00pm 

Sunday: 9:30 am – 4:00pm

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Price:

Early bird payment, before October 31: $250

Payment after October 31: $270

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See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

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2016, November 19 & 20 Master class in Working Effectively with Groups

2016, November 19 & 20 Master class in Working Effectively with Groups - 

GESTALT ART THERAPY Centre

Learn about the style of the leader, the role of the participants and also, how to resolve group conflicts in a creative way. Group therapy and/or Business groups.

MASTER CLASS IN WORKING EFFECTIVELY WITH GROUPS

In this weekend you will learn:

• Learn the secret of leadership from within.
• Become at ease in a safe place in which you can develop skills as a group facilitator.
• Be able to practice various skills, creative methods in working with groups and become confident in being present as a leader.
• Refine yours and participants' abilities to work with group dynamics as they emerge in the training group.
• Discover the key principles of group process work: Group energy, clients’ patterns and leadership models.
• Practice working on simulated issues that deal with group problems and members will learn how to lead and solve group problems.
• Learn how to resolve group conflicts, emotional blocks, 'shadow work' and more creative methods in group work.

Days:
November 19 & 20

Time:
Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:00pm
Sunday: 9:30 am – 4:00pm

Where:
Gestalt Art Therapy centre
Ashgrove- Brisbane


Price:
Early bird payment, before November 5th: $250

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Payment after November 5th: $270

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See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

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2016, October 15 & 16 MASTERCLASS IN SAND PLAY THERAPY – A GESTALT APPROACH

2016, October 15 & 16 

MASTERCLASS IN SAND PLAY THERAPY 

 A GESTALT APPROACH

It is not just sand....

MASTERCLASS IN SAND PLAY THERAPY – A GESTALT APPROACH

In this weekend you will:

Use creative methods to enhance your therapy practice with Sand Play tools.

Learn how to facilitate and promote positive results with symbolic imagery

Experience your own aspects of growth in symbolic imagery.

Uncover the reasons why your clients may resist verbal counselling.

Improve your skills working with traumas and early child painful history.

Discover ways to clear bad memories and blocks to your own growth

Find the way of facilitating sand play figures and understand their unconscious meanings.

Enable the clients to discover the self-supports and deal with their life crises.

Days:

October 15 & 16

Time:

Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:00pm 

Sunday: 9:30 am – 4:00pm

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Price:

Early bird payment, before October 3rd: $250

Payment after October 3rd: $270

More info

Download the Registration form here

2016, October 8 & 9 Working with CHILDREN IN THERAPY SESSIONS, Gestalt approach

2016, October 8 & 9 

Working with CHILDREN IN THERAPY SESSIONS, 

Gestalt approach

Any professional in the helping services who wants to work with children, must take into account the child as a total system: the family, social, cultural and developmental factors influencing the child.

In addition, we must pay attention to the small or subtle details that the adults may not notice or may not understand about the child’s symptoms that are clearly obvious to a professional. For example, the manner we communicate with a child is to notice the pace, rhythm and assimilation of the content, as well as the meaning attribution to the play experiments during the session. This is a way of developing trust and safety during the session by clarifying anything that is happening between the child and the adult therapist.

 WORKING WITH CHILDREN IN THERAPY SESSIONS. A GESTALT APPROACH 

In this weekend you will learn:

Discover how deep traumatic experiences in childhood affect the adult client.

Uncover the truth why most traditional work with child trauma do not work.

How can you enable children to achieve positive feelings about their contacts with parents and society at large.

Practice art therapy methods and tools to encourage creativity in self and children.

How to be more aware of the several ways you may be able to with emotional wounds.

Days:

October 8 & 9

Time:

Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:00pm 

Sunday: 9:30 am – 4:00pm

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Price:

Early bird payment, before September 30th: $250 

Payment after September 30th: $270

More info

Download the Registration form here

2016, September 9th The wisdom of colour Through Aura-Soma

2016, September 9th

 The wisdom of colour Through Aura-Soma

The wisdom of colour Through Aura-Soma

Guest speaker : Maria Teresa De Vivo

Get a basic understanding of the Aura-Soma Colour system and how through colour and the Equilibrium bottles you are able to unlock messages hidden at a subconscious level. “You are the colours you choose and these reveal your being’s needs” is the motto of Aura-Soma. Come and discover how Aura-Soma can help you and/or your clients reveal what can be stopping you from realizing your full potential.

Day: September 9th

Time: 7 pm to 8 pm

Free event

Please let us know if you are coming.

Please bring a small plate to share

More info: gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com

2016, September 3 & 4 Masterclass in the PRACTICE of GESTALT THERAPY

2016, September 3 & 4 

Masterclass in the PRACTICE of GESTALT THERAPY

Learn about The Gestalt Philosophy, "Here and Now"

MASTERCLASS IN THE PRACTICE OF GESTALT THERAPY

This innovative experience is designed for therapists and counsellors, trainers and facilitators, consultants and leaders, who are currently practicing.

This is an excellent opportunity for professionals to learn more advanced Gestalt methods and skills within their own disciplines.

In this weekend you will learn:

Learn how to innovate your practice skills with individuals, groups and families.

Discover how people develop and create false memories this being stuck in traumas.

Find out how the therapist promotes (unconsciously) resistances to problem solving.

Practice visualisation techniques to enhance own and client’s growth.

How to feel calm, compassionate and creative in working with clients.

How to implement art therapy tools in Gestalt Therapy practice.

Days:

September 3 & 4

Time:

Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:00pm 

Sunday: 9:30 am – 4:00pm

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Price:

Early bird payment, before August 28th: $250

More info

Download the Registration form here

2016, August 27 & 28 Masterclass in Working Effectively with Groups

2016, August 27 & 28 

Masterclass in Working Effectively with Groups

Each Group is a different World...

 MASTERCLASS IN WORKING EFFECTIVELY WITH GROUPS

In this weekend you will learn:

Learn the secret of leadership from within.

Become at ease in a safe place in which you can develop skills as a group facilitator.

Be able to practice various skills, creative methods in working with groups and become confident in being present as a leader.

Refine yours and participants' abilities to work with group dynamics as they emerge in the training group.

Discover the key principles of group process work: Group energy, clients’ patterns and leadership models.

Practice working on simulated issues that deal with group problems and members will learn how to lead and solve group problems.

Learn how to resolve group conflicts, emotional blocks, 'shadow work' and more creative methods in group work.

Download the Registration form here

Days:

August 27 & 28

Time:

Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:00pm 

Sunday: 9:30 am – 4:00pm

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Price:

Early bird payment, before August 22nd: $250

Payment after August 22nd: $270

More info

Download the Registration form here

Free book !!! For the 5 first Registrations to the workshop "Working with Groups" 

2016, August 20 & 21 COACHING SKILLS Workshop

2016, August 20 & 21 COACHING SKILLS Workshop

What you need to know about COACHING SKILLS

COACHING SKILLS and ART THERAPY

In this weekend you will learn:

Discover your unique personal creative energy to facilitate others in their work.

Find out what Gestalt Art Therapy offers to enhance your skills.

Uncover the secrets to all FOUR of your energy bodies – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

Find out why most people are stuck in a low level of creativity.

Learn how to become a more productive leader-coach without feeling stressed.

Practice new ways of facilitating individual and group processes that offer success.

Days:

August 20 & 21

Time:

Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:00pm 

Sunday: 9:30 am – 4:00pm

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Price:

Early bird payment, before August 15th: $250

Payment after August 15th: $270

More info 

SCULPTURE

Gestalt Art Therapy

In this workshop you will learn how to create scultuptures practicing with different materials.

• Discover how to support your client in Therapy sessions, using the Sculpture technique in a Therapeutic way.

• Explore with clay and other materials to enhance your awareness.

• Practice with the SICAIDIR Method and learn how to integrate the client projections with the Gestalt Art therapy process.

- Art techniques

- Gestalt Therapy Methodology, using Sculpture.

When: Saturday, June 11th, 2016

Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 am

Cost:

Early bird payment before May 22nd: $140.00

Payment after May 22nd: $160.00

 - Reserve your participation- Book now (Credit Card payment has 4% of paypal commission)

- Download the registration form here

2016, June 4 & 5 - Sand Play

SAND PLAY WORKSHOP

Sand play as a Gestalt approach.
Learn how to understand the meaning of symbols.

"Sand play is a form of therapy that gives both child and adult clients the opportunity to portray, rather than verbalize, feelings and experiences often inaccessible and/or difficult to express in words." (Jung Institute of Los Angeles). Sand play therapy, was developed by Swiss Jungian Analyst Dora Kalff.
We have a passion for Sand play therapy and we are respectful with this kind of work. Our interest is combining Sand play + Gestalt Art Therapy thus extending the Sand play work to Gestalt and Art techniques, incorporating the work with the empty chair, painting, sculpture, drama, etc.
Our focus is attending to the client's projections, re-owning projections, enhancing client's responsibility and working in the "Here and Now".

By this symbolic activity and through an active  experience, unconscious processes are made visible in this three-dimensional form, much like the dream experience.


When:
June 4th &  5th, 2016


Time:

Saturday:  9:00 am -  4:30pm                    

Sunday:     9:00 am – 3:30pm

Cost:

Early bird payment before May 15th: $250.00 

Payment after may 15th: $270.00


-  Book now here (Credit card payment has 4% of commission)

- Download the Registration form

2016, May 28- Art Journals in Therapy Sessions

CREATING ART JOURNALS

TO BE USED IN THERAPY SESSIONS

Gestalt Art Therapy

Creating an Art Journal using creative and powerful Mixed Media techniques.

Discover how to use this amazing tool in Art Therapy sessions with a Gestalt approach.

 Why is the meaning of the Art Diary, and how we can use it in therapy?

 Come and experience this personal Journey.

Day/ Time:

Saturday May 28th, 2016  
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm  
             

Cost:
Early Bird Payment Before May 15th: $140.00
Payment after May 15th: $160.00
Art materials included.

 - Early Bird- Book now here (Credit Card Paypal payments have 4% of commission)

 - Download the Registration form here

2016, May 20, 21, 22 - Art Camp- Gestalt Art Therapy Approach

Art Camp- Gestalt Art Therapy Approach

SECOND ART CAMP

GLAMPING! Luxurious place

May 20, 21, 22 , 2016

NSW- Mullumbimby

Psychologists, Counselors, Artists and any person who wants to use Art techniques in a Therapeutic way, all are welcome!

At this Art Camp, You will be able to learn and enjoy creative ways of working with clients and groups, using Clay, Paintings, LandArt, and more.

Enjoy this ART CAMP in a SPECIAL natural venue  near MULLUMBIMBY!
Sharing Rooms, Healthy Food, plenty of Nature, relaxing time and Art work, they are the best Ingredients to experiment an amazing weekend!

Facilitated by Yaro Starak & Gemma Garcia, Artists and Directors of the Gestalt Art Therapy Centre.

ONLY 2 PLACES left

Do not miss this opportunity!

WE WILL PROVIDE ALL THE ART MATERIALS

At this ART CAMP you will study:
A variety of  Art materials.
Get some ideas from this Art Camp like how to use Art Techniques with clients in an GESTALT Art Therapy sessions
Discover different ideas and adapt them in the therapeutic context.
Express yourself, play, investigate with techniques and materials, this is the only way you will gain ways of working creatively with a client or group.
Learn when, why and how to use specific techniques in the context of the client's age, situation, level of the therapeutic process or working theme of your client.

At this ART CAMP you will practice:

• Working with Acrylic painting & Water Color
• Using Clay
• Exploring Land Art
• Mixed media
• Performance
• Spiritual Rituals

The Art work as the focus of Art Therapy:

• Working with Self-esteem
• Working with the polarities of the light/ shadow aspects
• Working with the family
• Working with kids
• Groups work

Note: We are not doing Individual or Group Therapy. This Art Camp has the purpose of training in Art skills. We have a Gestalt focus, but the goal of the Art Camp is investigating materials used in Art Therapy sessions that can apply to any style of therapy.

All the participants are welcome, if you are Psychologist, Counselor, Therapist, Teacher, Artist, this ART CAMP would offer you the Art therapy skills. If you are not, you will be able to experiment with Art as a Therapeutic approach.

ANAHATA RETREAT

Anahata is in a lush bush setting beside a bend in the river. It has its own private waterhole complete with platypus, turtles, many water birds and butterflies. A Balinese pavillion next to running water is for yoga, meditation or just relaxation and a magical tipi for getting in touch with your mystic spiritual side next to the fire at night. Anahata is home to a beautiful waterfall, a glow worm grotto and rolling lawns dotted with fruit and nut trees and gorgeous green bush.
Within this setting is a magnificent 5 bedroom pole house surrounded by a wide wooden veranda where the retreats are held. Accommodation is shared rooms both twin and triple and there are also alternatives to provide your own tent. Maximum number of participants is 12 people. There are plenty of private places to sit or make small walks on the property or go for a swim in the fresh waters of Wilsons Creek.

The location is 15 minutes from Mullumbimby, 30 minutes from Byron Bay and 2 hours from Brisbane airport. The closest airport is Coolangatta/Gold Coast or Ballina (both 45 minutes away) and an airport shuttle bus can be arranged to get you here.

The full Cost included:
Accommodation in a sharing room, two nights.
Linen, Towels, blankets
Meals: Friday dinner, Saturday all meals, Sunday until lunch time, (lunch included)
Art materials (Paintings, paper, Clay, glue, etc)
Art classes
Morning Yoga Classes

EARLY Bird: $800.00 Payment before May 10th. Click here to pay.

EXTENDED EARLY BIRD price until May 10th, 2016


Payments made after May 10th will be: $1000.00

Payment by paypal has a 4% of commission, applied to the cost
Available Transfer Bank (Ask us for the Bank details to: gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com)
Each price is per person
The amount is in Australian Dollars



- Download the Registration form
- Download the Art camp Programme
- More Information- Phone Number: 0421 514 907
- More information: gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com

2016 March/ April/ May Training Course- 3 workshops

2016 March/ April/ May Training Course- 3 workshops

i-CAT: AN INTRODUCTION TO GESTALT ART THERAPY

PROGRAM OUTLINE – 2016

MODULE 1

March 12 & 13, 2016

HISTORY OF GESTALT THERAPY & FRITZ PERLS

  THE GESTALT CYCLE OF CREATIVE EXPERINCE

  GESTALT THERAPY TOOLS & TECHNIQUES

  ART HISTORY & THEORY OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS

 

MODULE 2

April 16 &17, 2016

  ART THERAPY HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT

  PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND DIAGNOSTIC TEST. THE ROLE OF THE THERAPIST.

  THERAPEUTIC PRINCIPLES IN ART THERAPY AND GESTALT THERAPY. ETHICAL ISSUES.

  WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM ART THERAPY: Children, Adolescents and Adults.

  WHERE WE USE ART THERAPY: Emergency rooms, child clinics, educational settings, hospitals etc.

  SOME EXAMPLES OF ART THERAPY AND GESTALT PROCESS WORK.

  USE OF ART MATERIALS AND TOOLS.

 GROUP WORK AND THE CREATIVE HEALING PROCESS.

MODULE 3

May 14 & 15, 2016

  SAND PLAY.

  MASKS,PAINTING, MANDALAS, COLLAGE

  SCULPTURES, PHOTOTHERAPY.

  VIDEO THERAPY, MUSIC-THERAPY


Registration form and Cost

2016, March 5th Workshop: Using the TAROT in a Therapy Sessions

2016, March 5 Using the TAROT in a Therapy Sessions

Why not?

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre is using creative ways to offer professional support to Psychologists, Counsellors, Therapists, Social workers and social service providers who are working with clients in therapy sessions.

Using the Tarot with a psychotherapeutic objective is novel and exciting.

The reason being that the cards are associated with the Archetypes (Jung) therefore the work is directly relevant to the discovery of the unconscious material indicated in the symbolic images in the cards.

We tend to project everything onto images before us. Our thoughts, feelings and emotions, and make decisions based on our selection of a specific card. In this workshop the participants will learn how to use Tarot cards as a technique to deepen their work with clients and find unconscious material in a Gestalt Art Therapy approach.

 

FACILITATOR:

Yaro Starak has extensive experience for over thirty years in group facilitation in Australia and in many countries around the world. Yaro has a warm, affirming manner and endeavors to help participants understand their unique style and gifts and to use them to their best advantage in the group situations. His perspectives in Gestalt Therapy ensure a deep understanding of the dynamics of group energy. His background in lecturing gives a clear methodology to the theoretical basis of group work. He is also the author of a new book on group work and art therapy.

Time:

 Saturday: 9:00am - 5:00pm

Costs

2016, February 27 & 28 workshop: Working with Groups

2016, February 27 & 28 workshop: Working with Groups

The workshop is designed to teach by experiential demonstration of a variety of ways to work with groups in any setting using Gestalt Art Therapy approach.

 The workshop is for those working or training as social and community service providers, counselling or anyone wanting to explore, develop confidence, and further group facilitation skills. The participants will be able to understand their unique style and gifts and to use them to their best advantage in the group environment. The workshop is designed to offer an in depth understanding of the dynamics of group energy and gives a clear methodology to the theoretical basis of group work. 

This workshop is an approved PD for professionals

Each participant will receive a free book : "Group Work Skills" by Yaro Starak

 

Day 1:

INTRODUCTION TO GROUP WORK.

 The theoretical principles and practices will be covered through experiential exercises, discussion and some personal exploration in group settings:

 - How to begin group work.

 - The paradoxical theory of change.

 - What sort of groups can get us into trouble and what to do to change and re-frame our difficulties into opportunities.

 - The magic of role playing.

In addition we will explore THE UNKNOWN ASPETCS IN GROUPS. That is looking at the major aspects of the unconscious process of group work. Much of what goes on in groups happens ¨below the neck¨. Much of it is in the dance between our unconscious selves. This dance is what helps to make groups so exciting, scary and full of potential for transformation.

 

Day 2:

THE PRACTICE OF GROUP LEADERSHIP.

The more we understand our own inner 'selves' and their interplay, the better facilitators we will be. Come prepared to know (and accept) yourself better!

 This includes:

   - How to facilitate groups in any setting.

   - Getting to know and working on the fears and other self-limiting messages that hold us back as group facilitators

  - Learning by facilitating a small group and receive feedback.

  - Group reality development, including the 'dreaded' unconscious group collusion and the role of 'ghosts'.

   - Meeting and working with people's different 'selves' in a group.

  - Understanding the unconscious roles people can play, and get stuck in set ways.

 

FACILITATOR:

Yaro Starak has extensive experience for over thirty years in group facilitation in Australia and in many countries around the world. Yaro has a warm, affirming manner and endeavors to help participants understand their unique style and gifts and to use them to their best advantage in the group situations. His perspectives in Gestalt Therapy ensure a deep understanding of the dynamics of group energy. His background in lecturing gives a clear methodology to the theoretical basis of group work. He is also the author of a new book on group work and art therapy.

Time:

Saturday: 9:30am - 5:00pm & Sunday: 9:30am - 4:00pm

Costs: Click the link please

Registration form

2016 February 20th- Workshop Working with Kids

2016 February 20th- Workshop Working with Kids

What You Will Learn:

The basic principles and practices will be covered through experiential exercises, discussion and some personal exploration.

This will include:

 • The paradoxical theory of change

 • The magic of role playing with children

 • Being open to the unexpected – magic happens

 • Experiencing the Now: savoring and chewing

 • The importance of being specific and concrete

 • The creative void and change in the Here and Now

Also, we will explore an introduction to Gestalt work with children:

 •          Use of drawing and colors

 •          Sand play with children

 •          Music therapy

 •          Family sculpturing

Download here the Workshop Registration

MERRY CHRISTMAS

WE WISH YOU

A MERRY CHRISTMAS

AND MAGIC 2016!

Yaro & Gemma

www.gestaltarttherapy.com

2016 February 20th- Workshop Working with Kids

 

 

 

The way to work with children in a therapy session could be a little different than working with adults. Professional therapists need to adjust their therapeutic tools to the level of children.

  
DATE: FEBRUARY 20^th, 2016
TIME: Saturday 9:30am To 5pm
COST FOR THE WORKSHOP:
 
Early Bird, Payment before 5^th February, 2016:  $130
 
Payment after 5^th February, 2016:  $150
 
•             Ask us for the Bank details:  gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com
 
•             Payment by paypal has a 4% commission of the total cost.
  
 FACILITATOR: YARO STARAK
 
What You Will Learn:
The basic principles and practices will be covered through experiential exercises, discussion and some personal exploration.
This will include:
 • The paradoxical theory of change
 • The magic of role playing with children
 • Being open to the unexpected – magic happens
 • Experiencing the Now: savoring and chewing
 • The importance of being specific and concrete
 • The creative void and change in the Here and Now
 
Also, we will explore an introduction to Gestalt work with children:
 •          Use of drawing and colors
 •          Sand play with children
 •          Music therapy
 •          Family sculpturing


Download here the Workshop Registration



2016 Open Day - Gestalt Art Therapy Centre- Brisbane- Australia

     

OPEN DAY !!!   

FEBRUARY 13th, 2016

10:00 am

Training Workshops and Therapy Sessions in Australia by Yaro Starak & Gemma Garcia,  Directors.

Our Centre offers to develop art tools for therapists who wish to enhance their skills and practice across a range of clients.

In addition we provide professional therapy services for Children, Family, Couples, and Supervision, in a nurturing environment with respect, compassion and humility.

The Center is proud of its strong experience in the field of Gestalt Therapy and its practice of awareness  that has been the core method of  “mindfulness” learning for the last 30 years.


Open day Program

February 13th, 2016
10:00 Welcome
10:30 to 11:00  Solo Performance Art presentation
11:00 to 13:00 Gestalt Art Therapy Centre program presentation & hands on practice.
13:00 Closing Open day.

Free morning tea /coffee 

RSVP  gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com
 www.gestaltarttherapy.com