Counselling & Art Therapy- Carolyn Dunbar in Adelaide, South Australia | Therapist

Counselling & Art Therapy- Carolyn Dunbar

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 404 027 246

Address: Botanic Integrated Therapies 35 Hackney Rd, Hackney 5069 Adelaide, SA, Australia

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24.01.2022 If we are to live life so that our heart sings, we can't be distracted from being ourselves. We need to work out what makes our heart sing and rein in all the emotional, mental, spiritual and physical aspects of our life.

24.01.2022 'Introduction to Clay': Interested in getting your hands on some clay and experiencing its healing potential? Join us at the workshop I'll be running this Sunday, 11th Oct, at the Ikon Institute, Glenelg, 9:30am-4pm. Clay is amazing to work with. It is a very powerful medium. Used in therapy it provides an avenue to make the unconscious conscious. It allows us to access, express and resolve our feelings. Workshop suitable for anyone interested in clay's healing potential. Certificates of attendance provided by the Ikon Institute.

20.01.2022 Feel the emotion in your body, sit with it and find the healing in expressing and releasing it.

19.01.2022 The importance of being mindful.

17.01.2022 There is enormous benefit to be found in practising both art therapy and yoga. Both can help you overcome obstacles by looking at real challenges in life. They can bring peace, truth and deep, lasting healing. Emotions are stored in the body and the processing that comes with creativeness and body awareness can access these, helping us move towards self-realisation and the wiseness of our inner self.

16.01.2022 We need to look after ourselves, create boundaries, no one else can do it for you.

16.01.2022 Have you been thinking about where you are in your life at the moment and where you'd like to be? Think about these 5 goals? 1. What do you want to do better? 2. What more do you want out of life?... 3. What do you want to have? 4. What do you want to achieve? 5.With whom do you want to spend more time? Its great to actually voice our goals to ourselves. Write them down and revisit them each day. Be open to the possibilities.

15.01.2022 Thoughts cause our feelings and so quietening our emotional body can guide us towards healing. Have no fear to work through your blocks, to seek guidance and move toward the realisation of why you feel the way you do. Write a journal, draw and dialogue with the information that comes, and see the possibilities of moving toward peace and an inner quiet.

13.01.2022 Art Therapy has given these women an avenue to express their chronic grief and loss.

10.01.2022 Thank you to my friend Sue Ward who reminded me it was time to change my mandalas at Botanic Integrated Therapies! Found some powerful comments from clients to add to it as well. The River of Life has been changed!

09.01.2022 Beautiful transitional work with open, grounded women at the Clay Workshop at Ikon on Sunday. The women used their sensory control of the clay to express their emotions, fears and desires.

09.01.2022 This is an extraordinary opportunity for Art Therapists & Counsellors.

08.01.2022 Mandalas Mandalas are powerful symbols that can provide us with insight and meaning. The very nature of creating them can be very therapeutic as well as symbolic. Jung spoke of the importance of us realising our own uniqueness. Unless we can fulfil this we can become sick. Every person has a story, but if this story has been denied or rejected, then we need to discover or rediscover it. Creating a mandala will also absorb the mind so that our inner chattering ceases and a more spiritual essence envelopes us. This in turn leads us to a higher consciousness and awareness.

07.01.2022 I recommend this series of workshops as a way to awaken your path to healing.

07.01.2022 A Chance Discovery - (this was published over 20 years ago by physiotherapist Robin McKenzie.) Mr Smith had pain to the right side of the back, extending into his buttock and thigh as far as the knee. He had undergone conventional treatment for 3 weeks with heat and ultrasound and his condition had not improved. I told him to go through and lie face down on the treatment table, the head end of which had been raised for the previous patient. Mr Smith lay face down unnoticed by... clinical staff, with his back arched backward and overstretched for some five minutes. When I returned to commence treatment I was extremely concerned and then astounded to hear him say that this was the best he had been in 3 weeks. All pain disappeared from his leg and he could now bend backward without having severe pain. The next day I placed him in the same position and this resulted in complete resolution of the remaining symptoms. If we acknowledge change then we are open to new possibilities. If we learn to approach our lives differently with hope and love, we may find we have far more potential than we ever thought to create the life we want.

07.01.2022 Art Therapy Workshop in Bali. I was given a wonderful opportunity recently by my yoga teacher Simi Roche, to hold an Art Therapy Workshop during our 10 day yoga retreat at The Shala Bali. These beautiful fellow yogis openly expressed their pathways towards life with healing & passion!

06.01.2022 Expression through art gives us the opportunity to find out where we are at this moment. It allows us to go deeply and connect with our conscious and unconscious selves. Our expression can give rise to profound realisation and can lead us to the heart of what is going on in our world.

05.01.2022 We often don't realise that we hold emotion in all of the cells of our body. Why do we have a knot in our stomach or a pain in our neck when we experience strong emotions? Why does it seem to persist and speak even louder when we don't listen? The body doesn't lie. Body Mapping during a counselling session is a wonderful way to allow your body's knowledge to be verbalised. These new realisations of what you need to do will open a path towards your healing.

05.01.2022 I am continually amazed with my clients! As they seek help they begin to dare to stand outside of their normal selves. When they come they have the opportunity to express and understand what is going on in their lives. They have opened a wonderful path towards authenticity!

04.01.2022 Creating a pathway into ourselves is a journey not to be feared. To do this we will encounter many trials, doubts and realisations. Our pysche will begin to reorganise and will produce a new lens for us to regard ourselves and the world. We will be led to a new way of acting and a life direction.

03.01.2022 Yoga Retreat in Turkey with Simi and the girls is less than two weeks away. Can't believe I'm going!