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We are a community that believes in the transformative power of creativity for personal and collective healing, growth, and connection. Our mission is to provide a safe, inclusive, and nurturing space where people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities can explore their creativity, express themselves, and cultivate well-being.
We truly believe in the therapeutic power of creativity and connection. We offer a variety of ways for people to come together and enjoy good company, community, and personal growth. Whether you’re seeking individual, or group therapy to find support and self-reflection, or a fun workshop to learn a new skill or craft, or an Online Course to do at your own pace, we have a range of facilitation experiences to meet your needs and budget.
Workshops
- Art and Soul
- The Nourishment of Clay: The Felt Sense of Contact & Connection
- Drawing For Regulation
- Image to Symbol Expressive Play with Collage
- Pandora’s Box
- Altered Books
- Large Scale Mark Making
- Mandala Meditation: Seed of Life
- Accelerated Trauma Recovery Mandala
- SE Skills for Life online
- Body Talk for Schools & Community Wellbeing
- C- SAW Group - Expression of Interest to Participate
Art & Soul Creative Sessions
Facilitated by Ruby Harvey
NOW Fortnightly Starting February 7th 2026
Carving out time and space to connect with your Heart & Soul through art on a regular basis can have profound benefits in all aspects of your life. It is a welcoming creative space to explore and share creativity in a variety of mediums. Learning about art is optional, the main purpose of the group is to make a space to explore, reflect and get in ‘the Zone’.
Explore different mediums such as watercolour, pastels, acrylics, clay, ink, collage, natural fibres and other craft materials. Session includes 2 hours of creative zone time listening to music without chit chat and an hour for self reflection, witnessing and group connection at the end with a cuppa.
The Art & Soul Creative Session facilitators, Ruby and Tania are both Artist with a desire to facilitate creative expression. They bring a great deal of artistic knowledge and experience along with a gentle, creative and deeply respectful presence to ITT.
The Art & Soul group is growing interest! Come along to experience what it is all about.
Investment: $35 + GST
Duration: 3hours
Book here
Where: ITT, Upstairs 2/2 Colin Ave, Warrandyte
Min: 4 participants
Max: 12 participants
Contact: Ruby Harvey
E: Ruby – ArtnSoul@integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
M: 0488 608 802
Please note: Booking is required to guarantee a spot as places are limited
The Nourishment of Clay:
The Felt Sense of Contact and Connection
This workshop will guide you through an exploration of clay and the felt sense (Peter Levin). This process aims to develop the felt sense of touch through the hands and to connect to deeper layers of you and your body. You will be led through a non-verbal mindful process, that will enable you to connect with the earthen, forgiving and yielding clay. You will be supported to find what touch, text, pressure, movement or holding feels nourishing and right for you at any given moment to slowly allow a 3D object to emerge. Reflection of the process will follow to integrate your experience.
To find out more about Tania your facilitator
www.integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
When: Saturday Feb 28th, 2026
2-4pm, 2hours
Reg & payment by: Monday 23rd Feb
Friday July 24th, 2026
7- 9pm
Reg & payment by: Monday 20th July
Investment: $165 incl. GST
Duration: 2 hours
Min: 4 participants
Max: 8 participants
NDIS participants before booking please send an email to:
info@integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
Please include the workshop name in your email
Where: Integrated Trauma Therapy – Art Studio,
Upstairs 2/2 Colin Ave, Warrandyte 3113
Victoria, Australia
All materials provided. No prior experience required. Beverages and afternoon tea available.
Drawing For Regulation
Find your way out of stress and feeling overwhelmed by surrendering yourself to the process of Guided Drawing. The use of bilateral movement will support you to find your rhythm and connect to your authentic impulses to move stress and tension from your body and mind, to experience greater presence, stability and space. With drawing materials you will be guided to explore the experience of expansion and contraction, fast and slow, soft and hard gestures in your mark making and within your body. This is a wonderful method to discover and build your internal resources to experience greater capacity, resilience and understand where your choices, preferences and desire lies.
To find out more about Tania your facilitator
www.integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
When: Saturday March 28th, 2026
Time: 2 – 4pm
Registration & payment by: Monday Mar 23rd, 2026
Investment: $165 incl. GST
Duration: 2hours
Min: 4 participants
Max: 8 participants
NDIS participants before booking please send an email to:
info@integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
Please include the workshop name in your email
Where: Integrated Trauma Therapy – Art Studio,
Upstairs 2/2 Colin Ave, Warrandyte 3113
Victoria, Australia
All materials provided. No prior experience required. Beverages and afternoon tea available.
Image to Symbol
Expressive Play with Collage
This workshop guides you though the creative process to make an intimate book or set of cards unique and personal to you. It aims to expand your awareness while settling you into a mindful state of being. Based on Jungian psychology and Senea Frost’s Soul Collage, this visual journey will nurture your personal growth, strengthen your intuition and recognise your innate wisdom.
In whatever stage of life you may find your self, collating images into a personal artwork in the company of others is a joyful and rewarding way to nourish and expand your self-understanding for greater acceptance.
No prior art experience needed. All sessions will guide you step by step through a creative process to connect with your inner experience.
To find out more about Tania your facilitator
integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
When: Saturday May 9th
Time: 2 – 5pm
Investment: $210 incl. GST
Registration & payment by: Monday April 27th, 2026
Duration: 3hours
Min: 4 participants
Max: 10 participants
NDIS participants before booking please send an email to:
info@integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
Please include the workshop name in your email
Where: Integrated Trauma Therapy – Art Studio,
Upstairs 2/2 Colin Ave, Warrandyte 3113
Victoria, Australia
All materials provided. No prior experience required. Beverages and afternoon tea available.
Pandora’s Box
To find out more about Tania your facilitator www.integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
When: Sunday June 21st, 2026
Time: 10 – 4pm
Investment: $ 260 incl. GST
Registration & payment by, June 15th, 2026
Duration: 6 hours
Min: 4 participants
Max: 8 participants
NDIS participants before booking please send an email to:
info@integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
Please include the workshop name in your email
Where: Integrated Trauma Therapy – Art Studio,
Upstairs 2/2 Colin Ave, Warrandyte 3113
Victoria, Australia
All materials provided. No prior experience required. Beverages and afternoon tea available.
Altered Books
Creating an Altered Book can be a transformative, empowering and therapeutic experience.
This workshop will provide you with the opportunity and materials to creatively alter a book. Experience how your creativity gives you access to the agency within to recreate your narrative. Using paints, images, fabrics, collage, craft, text and more, you will be invited to alter a pre existing book to create your own personal object exploring themes unique to you. The book you choose to alter will lend you ideas and guide you in a direction that is different to a blank canvas.
Altering a pre existing book can offer possibilities and ideas that will ignite your imagination. Share in this creative process in the company of others and allow the group environment to support your themes and open you to possibilities.
To find out more about Tania your facilitator
www.integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
When: Friday August 14th, 2026
Time: 6 – 9pm
Investment: $210 incl. GST
Registration & payment by:
Monday August 10th, 2026
Duration: 3 hours
Min: 4 participants
Max: 8 participants
NDIS participants before booking please send an email to:
info@integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
Please include the workshop name in your email
Where: Integrated Trauma Therapy – Art Studio,
Upstairs 2/2 Colin Ave, Warrandyte 3113
Victoria, Australia
All materials provided. No prior experience required. Beverages and afternoon tea available.
Large Scale Mark Making
Tap into your expressive self with our Large Scale Mark Making workshop. Inspired by the energetic spirit of gestural drawing and mark-making, this session is all about freeing your creativity and exploring movement through art.
Set to groovy music, you’ll take a line for a walk on a large-scale piece of paper using a variety of materials—pastels, ink, sticks, rollers, leaves, and more. Whether your marks evolve into a still life, an abstract image, or remain pure expressive strokes, this session invites you to bring your artist self to the forefront and let your impulses guide you.
Warm-up exercises will help loosen your body and mind, creating space for playful, expressive movement as you become fully absorbed in the experience.
When: TBC
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Duration: 2 hours
Investment: $110 incl. GST
Registration & payment by: TBC
Duration: 2 hours
Min: 4 participants
Max: 8 participants
NDIS participants before booking please send an email to:
info@integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
Please include the workshop name in your email
Where: Integrated Trauma Therapy – Art Studio,
Upstairs 2/2 Colin Ave, Warrandyte 3113
Victoria, Australia
Materials Provided:
All materials will be supplied, so just bring your creative energy and enthusiasm!
Mandala Meditation: Seed of Life
We’ll begin with a guided meditation to set intentions for the year ahead, followed by creating your own Seed of Life mandala. Explore shapes and patterns within the Seed of Life structure, allowing your creativity to flow as you colour and contemplate your design. Reflection, journaling, and opportunities for witnessing and sharing will complete the experience.
When:
Chinese New Year
Saturday 14th Feb 10:00am (AEDT)
Registration & payment by: Monday 9th Feb 2026
Autumn Equinox
Thursday April 9th 7:30pm (AEDT)
Registration & payment by: Monday 6th April, 2026
Winter Solstice
Thursday June 18th 7:30pm (AEDT)
Registration & payment by: Monday 15th June, 2026
Where: Online
Duration: 90min
Investment: $88 incl. GST
Min: 4 participants
Materials Needed:
Cartridge paper (150gsm+), grey lead pencil, compass, ruler, pen, coloured pencils, watercolour paints, brushes, water, eraser
Group Format:
Participants will work individually within a group setting, benefitting from shared support, reduced isolation, and the healing power of normalisation and mirroring. The group environment fosters connection and combats the isolation that trauma often creates.
Facilitator:
Tania Virgona brings decades of expertise to this offering. She is an advanced Somatic Experiencing (SE) Practitioner, senior art therapist, supervisor, and case consultant. Tania integrates:
Somatic Experiencing by Peter Levine
Polyvagal Theory by Stephen Porges
SE Touch Skills by Kathy Kain
NeuroAffective Touch by Aline LaPierre
Her MA in Art Therapy and Sensorimotor Art Therapy by Cornelia Elbrecht
With over 20 years of experience running therapeutic groups for children and adults in mental health and community settings, Tania is adept at creating a safe, inclusive, and welcoming space. Her passion lies in supporting individuals to connect with their bodies, creativity, and authentic selves.
What to Expect:
Safety: Established within the group, the facilitator, and the creative process
Connection: An invitation to connect with your whole self
Symbolic Language: Development of a personal language of symbols and meaning
Journaling: Chronicling thoughts, feelings, memories, and revelations throughout the process
Guided Structure: Step-by-step scaffolding to build mandalas, boundaries, and a safe space
Articulation: Validation and rewriting of personal narratives
New Self Statements: Creation of positive, forward-looking affirmations
Group Rules:
- Confidentiality: Avoid sharing specific traumatic details.
- Non-judgement: Maintain a non-judgmental and supportive atmosphere.
- Focus: Limit general chit-chat during art-making.
Accelerated Trauma Recovery Mandala
Developed by Lindy Bearup, Trauma Therapist, Trainer & Coach
With the permission and support of Lindy Bearup, we are honoured to offer the Accelerated Trauma Recovery (ATR) Mandala process at ITT.
This in-depth, 6-week group process harnesses the transformative power of creation through art and symbols to support trauma recovery.
Course Details:
Start Date: July 23rd – Aug 27th, 2026
Duration: 6 weeks, Thursdays 12pm to 3:00pm
Where:
Integrated Trauma Therapy – Art Studio,
Upstairs 2/2 Colin Ave, Warrandyte 3113
Victoria, Australia
Investment: $150 + GST per session
Total: $900 + GST for 6 weeks
Materials: All provided
Lindy Bearup designed this process to accelerate healing and foster integration for trauma survivors.
What is the ATR Mandala Process?
The ATR Mandala is a gentle therapeutic approach that guides participants through restorative symbol work using a mandala framework, consisting of interconnected circles. The process combines the unique power of art and symbolism to facilitate trauma resolution.
The non-verbal nature of art invites participants to engage their “observer self” or inner witness, fostering a safe space for self-exploration. The structure of the mandala provides a sense of containment and supports the reorganisation of the self in relation to trauma.
Creativity gently restores the right hemisphere of the brain, enabling natural processing of trauma and adaptive responses. Over six weeks, participants work to integrate and restore their psyche, body, brain, emotions, impulses, meaning, implicit and conscious memories, and metaphysical components.
This process helps externalise and symbolically represent the self, placing trauma in context and reconstructing its narrative. By doing so, participants discharge and reduce the trauma’s dominance over their perception, experience, and life.
What the ATR Mandala is Not:
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Not a painting class, occupational therapy session, or craft workshop.
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The focus is not on aesthetic beauty but on symbolic expression and trauma resolution.
Who Can Benefit:
The ATR Mandala process is ideal for individuals experiencing:
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Emotional discomfort or triggers from past or recent trauma
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Complex PTSD, anxiety, depression, or borderline personality disorder
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A need for trauma resolution, integration of past and present, or the creation of a new self-narrative
Outcomes include:
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Trauma resolution and integration
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Increased self-awareness and reduced alienation
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A sense of completion and forward momentum in life
Email for registration
info@interagedtraumatherapy.com.au
“The greatest illusion of modern society is that freedom is purely individualistic, when in reality, our freedom is deeply interconnected with the well-being of everyone.”
— Richard Cohen, Zen and the Art of Early Childhood
SE Skills for Life –
Online Course
I’m happy to share an exciting new offering, how to trust your body again: A 6-Week Online Somatic Experiencing Skills Guided Practice Group.
Commencing
February 5th – March 12th, 2026
Thursday’s 10am
Duration: 90min
Registration & payment by: Thursday Jan 29th, 2026
This transformative online programme is designed to help participants connect with their nervous system through psychoeducation, SE practical skills, and group support. It will provide foundational tools from the Somatic Experiencing framework to help regulate the nervous system, build resilience, and improve overall well-being.
The course offers opportunities for reflection, art-making, and journaling, fostering connection, safety, and presence in a supportive group setting. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of their stress patterns, build somatic resources, and strengthen their relationship with their body and its unique wisdom.
Bringing together my expertise in Somatic Experiencing, art therapy, and group facilitation, this course reflects my passion for creating safe, supportive spaces for growth and healing. Together, we can rediscover the freedom and fulfilment that comes from authentic connection, creativity, and deeper self-awareness. Let’s embrace this journey towards well-being and transformation!
C- SAW Group
Expression of Interest to Participate
C-SAW emerged out of a need to collaborate and vision with other women. Bridget, the creator, initiated the group based on 4 guiding principles which organically became known by its acronym ‘C-SAW’:
C- Collaboration / Creative
S- Support
A- Accountability
W- Witnessing
C-SAW (see-saw) also suggests the deep exploratory and often hilariously funny play ground where participants can enjoy freely creating and expressing held in the safety of the group.
The group meets once a month to collaborate using creative methods to find solutions to personal and professional challenges.
Via creative methods and processes one engages in the sacredness of allowing your own experience to guide you. The group aims to support participants to trust their own experience and develop their inner listener. In witnessing, we hold and allow the other’s own journey to be as it is.
‘It has been so wonderful to witness each member creatively discover their deepest truth and then to live this out in their lives in a genuine and ongoing way. We witness each other and support each other during this process.’ – Group participant
If you have a group of associates, friends, colleagues, or connections and would like a refreshing way of connecting, perhaps you may like to C-SAW. If you feel called to share this wonderful way of gathering connect with us at info@interagedtraumatherapy.com.au
We are calling for people to gather monthly for the duration of 6-12 month commitment.
Day options: Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning or afternoon, Monday, Tuesday Thursday, Friday evenings.
Investment: $60.50 inc. GST per person per session – includes studio hire, wifi, music, art materials, basic refreshments.
Duration: 4hours
Where:
Integrated Trauma Therapy, Art Studio Upstairs, 2/2 Colin Ave, Warrandyte, Vic
Min: 4 participants
Max: 6 participants per group gathering
NDIS participants before booking please send an email to:
info@interagedtraumatherapy.com.au
Please include the workshop name in your email.
You can register to be part of a new group or you may have already have an established group that would like to commit and explore to this way of gathering for 6 – 12 months.
The initial gathering will be facilitated by a previous C-SAW participant to guide you through the process.
The intention is to become a self governing group that offers an equal space to welcome the unique qualities of each person. It is important that each member takes turns to facilitate and hold sessions. Each member commits to the guiding principles of C-SAW as a way to support everyone’s self inquiry and process.
Book a Workshop
The many ways of gathering to facilitate good company, community and connection are on offer here at ITT. Whether it is group therapy for personal growth, self-reflection and support, or cooperative learning and engagement to learn a new skill or craft via a workshop, we aim to offer a range of group facilitation experiences to meet your needs and price range.