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Social Worker, Artist, Art Therapist
BA, B.SocStud, Grad Dip Art, MA (ATh), AThR

Phillipa has worked and volunteered for over 25 years in the health, welfare and educational sectors. She’s worked in hospitals, related health and welfare organizations and in adult education in Sydney and regional NSW. Providing individual and group support through to developing national support programs, these different work experiences have included working with adoptions, chronic and life threatening health issues, trauma, social skills deficits, grief and bereavement, with children, adolescents, parents/carers, adults, siblings and adults.

Along with bringing up 3 children, Phillipa has enjoyed an active and varied art practice where she has experienced the joy and therapeutic nature of the creative process. An inevitable joining of career and art making led to a Masters degree and work in this capacity. Her role in an Expressive Therapy Centre, a smaller Art Therapy private practice and co facilitating art therapy groups with women living with cancer have provided a rich experience of the benefits of Art Psychotherapy and ‘seeing things differently’. Phillipa is both experienced and passionate about facilitating creative self-healing opportunities for others.

email taylers5@bigpond.net.au