Clay Field Therapy
Children
Clay Field Therapy integrates creativity, play, and sensory engagement, while being supported and co-regulated by the therapist.
- Support emotional regulation
- Build secure attachment and inner resources
- Strengthens one’s ego and self-esteem
- Fun, creative and engaging
Adults
An immersive body-based experience. Focus on your bodily sensations and the process, rather than “making something”
- Facilitate trauma healing without retelling the story
- Achieve greater mind-body connection
- Strengthen inner resources
- Explore novel sensorimotor experiences
Free 15 Minute Consultation
It’s important that you or your loved one finds the right therapeutic support. That’s why we offer a free virtual consultation with our therapist. This way, you can get a sense if Clay Field Therapy or our practitioner may be a good fit for you before committing to a session. Book your free (and obligation free) consultation today to find out how Clay Field Therapy can support you or your loved one.
What is Clay Field Therapy?
Founded by Professor Heinz Deuser and further advanced by Cornelia Elbrecht (Founder of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy), Clay Field Therapy is a form of sensorimotor art therapy focused on the sense of touch informed by neuroscience and somatic experiencing. “The therapeutic focus is neither on symptoms nor on the story of what-happened, but on the innate urge to find a more adequate response to the world at hand. In this way the encounter at the clay field allows us to gradually rewrite our biography” (Cornelia Elbrecht).
What Happens During a Clay Field Session?
A Clay Field is a rectangular wooden container which can hold 10-15kg of clay. During a Clay Field Therapy session while being accompanied by a therapist, you will be provided the wooden field containing smooth clay and a bowl of water. You will be invited to interact with the clay field through haptic sensations. Your hands will touch the clay following their intuitions and impulses, concentrating on the felt sense. This is not a cognitive process and you are not expected to create an object or artwork.
How Does it Work?
Through your hands, you project your motor impulses into the field, and receive sensory feedback from the clay. This sensorimotor experience facilitates a relational encounter between you and the Clay Field, and in turn enables self-discovery, insight identification and trauma healing. The haptic engagement with clay supports the rewiring of neurological pathways, enabling nervous system regulation, embodied sense of safety, and repair of developmental deficits.
What is the Role of the Therapist?
The Therapist will assume the role of an accompanier, who will provide you support, as well as act as the “cognitive function” for you during this deep therapeutic process. During the post-session debrief, the Therapist will support you to explore, contextualise and integrate your experience, with a focus on the felt sense and the embodied experience. You may engage in meaning making based on your experience and situation.
Service Overview
NDIS Services
Art Therapy for NDIS Participants
Creative Arts Therapy is funded under the NDIS. It must be undertaken by a Creative Arts Therapist, registered with ANZACATA as a Professional Member.
Cerulean Space supports self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants who are looking for creative, person-centred therapy in Melbourne. Sessions are tailored to each participant’s goals, communication style, sensory needs, and art making preferences.
Art therapy can help participants with capacity building and improving quality of life through emotional regulation, creative expression, reduce stress and anxiety, improve mood, and foster social connection.
How we support participants
- Goal-aligned art therapy sessions
- Person-centred support for children, teens and adults
- Flexible creative approaches using a range of materials
- Collaborative engagement and open communication with participants, families, support coordinators and plan managers
- A calm studio environment designed for therapeutic art making
Funding & Payment
Flexible Funding and Payment Options
Choose the payment pathway that suits your situation. Coverage and eligibility can vary, so please confirm your options and eligibility with the respective funding source or provider before booking.
NDIS
Support is available for self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants where art therapy aligns with funding, goals, and plan-specific requirements.
Private Health Insurance
Cerulean Space is registered as a provider for selected private health insurance funds. Eligibility and cover depend on your individual policy.
Self Funded
Private clients can self fund sessions. Payment can be made via direct bank transfer.
Not sure which option applies to you? Get in touch and we can help you understand the available funding pathways.
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Visit Cerulean Space
The Cerulean Space art therapy studio is located in Avondale Heights, a peaceful north-western suburb of Melbourne. It is an approximately 10-20 minute drive from suburbs such as Essendon, Moonee Ponds, Brunswick, Keilor, Sunshine, St Albans, Footscray, and Sydenham.
studio
2 Ridge Dr, Avondale Heights VIC 3034
Get in Touch
Have a question about art therapy, NDIS sessions or booking an appointment? Send a message and we will get back to you.
Phone
0411 442 609
info@ceruleanspace.com.au
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