Taraka Hart – Teacher Care; supervision, workshops for teacher wellbeing, teachers who work with young people from trauma backgrounds

Art Therapy and Supervision for Caring Professionals

Therapy can feel good.

Talk Helps; Art Therapy Transforms

You can have a safe place to explore what is under your skin without feeling like you have to spill all the beans. You can have a space to explore your innate creativity that doesn’t require training or need to be assessed, but allows you to play and create meaningful representations of your inner life.

You can talk if you like, and you will be ‘held’ and gently supported through difficult emotions or trauma.

Mental Health Practitioners and Educators seeking support for stress, during life changes and transitions, in times of grief or overwhelm, or work related challenges need someone who understands the work you do, the systems within which you work, and the exhaustion you may experience being a giving and caring person.

You may seek a therapy companion along the road to recovery, fulfilment or feeling like yourself again.

Hi, I'm Taraka Hart.

Since 2004, I have been an educator and taught in lower socio-economic schools where I also pondered the challenged systems within which I worked, and those in which kids inhabited and thrived, survived or needed help. The challenges and my curiosity led to study in Social Work and Art Therapy, and then lots of trauma training.

My own experience of burnout and recovery sent me on a self-care research and experiment extravaganza and I’ve since been able to help other professionals reflect on and grow in their self-care and creativity practices.

I have worked with little kids, adolescents, uni students, parents, people from refugee backgrounds and those recovering from the experience of domestic violence. The act of making art has been at the heart of the work I do and I have found many, many people learn to regulate and express difficult emotions and create new narratives from creating and reflecting on the significance of the art to them.

Find out if you would want to book a session with Taraka.

Testimonials

“Taraka and art therapy have supported me to begin to process thoughts and feelings that I would not be comfortable talking about in talk therapy. It has deepened my understanding of myself and added tools to my self-care toolbox. Art therapy has allowed me to begin working on my own “stuff” in order to best support my clients as I move into the world of becoming a play therapist.”

– Beth M.

“As a first time practicing clinical student, I was experiencing the full effect of face-to face work with children and families. Holding the emotions of others and respecting individual stories is not a small task. Balancing the needs of children, parents, school stakeholders and other professionals required far more resilience and self-care than I first anticipated. Attending art therapy sessions with Taraka has given me the space and the tools to grow as an individual and a practitioner. Taraka skilfully navigates the art therapy sessions in a way that acknowledges my understanding as a clinician whilst also facilitating a deeper understanding of myself. Being held within an expressive therapeutic space and invited to explore different mediums has increased my confidence as a practitioner. This multifaceted relationship has also informed my private therapeutic practice with children. My clients have benefited as I have integrated some of Taraka’s art techniques into my sessions with positive results.

Art therapy with Taraka has additionally given me a different perspective on my personal experiences of my childhood and family structure. This has been vital in acknowledging my prejudices and my acceptance of alternative family systems. Taraka’s unique position as both therpaist and mentor has been invaluable as she challenges me to seek alternative ideas and creative outlets. This empowering experience has left a lasting impact, forever positively changing my practice. “

– Renee Vaughan Bch HlthSc, Grad Dip Thera Child Play, M.A Child Play Therapy

Art Therapy and Supervision for Caring Professionals

Therapy can feel good.

Hi, I'm Taraka Hart.

Find out if you would want to book a session with Taraka.

Testimonials

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