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Art Therapy Services

Supporting the wellbeing of adults and seniors in Sydney, Australia
Individual Art Therapy


Ellie offers individual Art Therapy services for adults in the therapy rooms at Union St Wellbeing in Erskineville.


Scroll down to read about her approach.

 

To make an inquiry please email contact@inclusivearttherapy.au 

Art Therapy at Closer Care


Inclusive Art Therapy has partnered with Closer Care in Gladesville to provide on-site Art Therapy services for adults living with disabilities.


Closer Care is a registered NDIS service provider and is wheelchair accessible.


To make an inquiry please email referrals@closercare.com.au 

Group Art Therapy for seniors


Ellie provides group Art Therapy in day programs and respite services for seniors. 


Group art therapy supports independent living and offers therapeutic benefits such as improved well being, creative agency, authentic self-expression and community connection.

Inclusive Art Therapy is delivered by Ellie Bortz AThR. Her approach is person-centred and focused on your strengths.


Ellie offers support such as:

  • Facilitating creative opportunities that are meaningful to you and responsive to your identified values and interests
  • Scaffolding activities to build creative confidence and agency
  • Adapting activities to meet your (changing) support needs
  • Offering prompts and activities that may support personal insight, mindful awareness and self-compassion
  • Online 'check-in' services to discuss and explore personal art or creative writing continued beyond the formal Art Therapy session
  • Embracing different communication styles and connecting through creative communication
More information

Inclusive Art Therapy is not a crisis support service. In an emergency call 000.


If you are in need of crisis support and are not in immediate danger (000) you can call these numbers or click on the website links:


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Person-centred therapy recognises the participant as the expert of their own life and as having unique strengths, values and interests. Ellie's role as the Art Therapist is to support the participant in their journey of self-discovery, strengthened agency and authentic self-expression.

Ellie encourages mindful awareness and practising self-compassion.

Ellie embraces different communication styles and adapts her services and creative activities to meet her client's changing interests and strengths.


Ellie works with clients who are experiencing changes in their cognitive abilities, and individuals living with dementia and/or neurodivergent neurotypes.

We all have unique brains, and unique ways of processing our experiences and communicating ourselves and our needs. This is called neurodiversity.


Despite our uniqueness and differences as humans, our society is not always designed to be accommodating or considerate of neurodiversity. Rather, society has often made decisions based on an assumption that there is a 'typical' way of being. Many services and spaces are designed with neurotypical people in mind.


A neurodiversity affirming approach embraces different ways of being, thinking, processing and communicating. As a neurodiversity affirming Art Therapist, Ellie's support will be guided by your values, strengths and interests - and collaboratively adaptive for your self-identified support requests. 

Inclusive Art Therapy practices on the unceded land of the Gadigal people. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.