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Using creative processes and group work to encourage presence and wellbeing in daily life.
My workshops are designed to assist people to build practices and skills to centre themselves, while also enabling them to creatively realign with their values and sense of purpose. They are opportunities to learn, experiment, reflect, reconnect, grow and play. Offering time to restore balance between the demands of living in this chaotic world, and meeting our own creative and wellbeing needs.
Working therapeutically with others as a Clinical Counsellor and Group Facilitator.
Therapeutic process is both a dynamic and creative experience. Here, I focus on offering more specific therapeutic support to people moving through difficult personal experiences, barriers to growth and problems in living.
I hold a Master of Counselling and Human Services from Latrobe University and am a Registered Clinical Counsellor with PACFA (Psychotherapy and Counselling Association of Australia). In addition to this, I also have many years of experience working in the community health/arts and wellbeing fields. These skills enable me create and hold person-centered and trauma-informed spaces for individuals and groups.
I am able to offer practices to assist:
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Coping with life transitions and change
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Mental health and addiction recovery
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Grief and loss
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Healing from 'burn-out',carer and helper fatigue
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Loss of meaning, purpose and personal values
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Exploring nonverbal experience and creative blocks
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Working with trauma symptoms and encouraging post traumatic growth practices
You can find more about my workshops via the wellbeing 'workshops' tabs. You may also like to take a look through the pages of my website to view a few of the projects, workshops and residencies that I have been involved with in the past.
If you have any queries or are interested in enquiring about workshop facilitation or art work, please head to the contact page and send me an email or a message.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my site,
Go gently,
Petra Meer
Hello my name is Petra Meer and welcome to my website.
Being creative everyday, enriches my life and continually sustains me in the therapeutic and counselling work that I do in the world.
My creative practice is made up of three broad areas:
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Working creatively for personal growth
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Using creative and group work processes to encourage presence, growth and wellbeing in daily life
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Working therapeutically with others as a Clinical Counsellor and Group Facilitator
These areas of interest also often provide the foundations for workshops I facilitate out in the community. I enjoy using: creative and expressive practices broadly along with counselling and evidenced- based therapeutic processes and practices.
Working creatively for personal growth.
I value time immersing myself in personal creative work, it's foundational to my growth, self care and meaning making. Often the focus of my creative work explores and encourages the importance of nature in our lives. Nature offers ongoing reminders to us to ground and slow down, while also encouraging a greater awareness of our overall interconnectedness. Nature is ever changing and an endless source of inspiration and wisdom for living fully.
Please visit my illustration page which includes works commissioned works for the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Services. Each used to illustrate endangered species and bring awareness to fragile ecosystems.
