Jodie Honan (she/her)

Creative Arts Therapist, Ecologist

Acknowledging Gunditjmara as the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters we live and work on. Paying our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

Sharing our world with people from a diversity of backgrounds, genders, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities.

Recognising all of us have a responsibility to care for Country and each other in community. Sharing our world with other-than human beings and relating to them with respect and care.

Welcome. I'm a qualified and ANZACATA* registered Creative Arts Therapist, and Ecologist, working in south-west Victoria on Gunditjmara Country.

My path has included working with youth re-engaging with education, adults with complex disabilities, and Indigenous groups on knowledge and relationships to heal Country. I engage with art, crafts, writing, and nature for personal and community development. As an experienced ecologist I have a strong knowledge of plant and animal lives and connections, and the resonances between humans and the rest of nature.

Master of Therapeutic Arts Practice (MIECAT)
Master of Science (Deakin)
Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Secondary, Monash)
Bachelor of Applied Science (WIAE)
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (SWTAFE)

Working with Children Check and National Police Check

Additional training:

Level II First Aid
The trauma of racism: expert strategies to help clients heal (NICABM 2023)
Nature-based expressive arts therapy series (Malchiodi and Warson 2023)

*ANZACATA Professional Membership: ANZACATA is the peak professional body representing creative arts therapists in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia/Pacific region. ANZACATA professional members have an approved Masters Degree or PhD level qualification including 750 hours of supervised clinical practice.

EMERGENCY MENTAL HEALTH CONTACTS:

Ambulance 000

Lifeline 13 11 14
Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636
Kidshelpline 1800 55 1800