About Wayfinding Creative Therapy

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Jules Booth
Registered art therapist (AThR-ANZACATA) and registered counsellor (PACFA) + ‘creative cartographer’

Jules Booth
Registered art therapist (AThR), counsellor + ‘creative cartographer’

Accredited by the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapy Association (ANZACATA) and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)

I trained at art school in my early 20s, but it wasn’t until I participated in creative therapies in my middle age, that I developed a connection with creativity that was personally meaningful.

I didn’t know it at the time, but I was beginning a creative wayfinding process. By creating sand trays (in Sandplay) drawings, sculptures and assemblages of found objects, I began to chart my inner landscape (the mountains, the ravines, the seas, the fields…). These artworks became my creative maps and helped me begin to orientate myself within my own life and also locate myself on my own life path.

My own positive experiences as a creative cartographer motivated me to train as an art therapist and support other people to develop their own relationships with creativity, and begin to find themselves and their own ways.

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My qualifications and training

Master of Art Therapy
Western Sydney University, 2024

Active Sandplay Foundational Course
Mandala Creative Therapy, 2024

Creative Interventions - Symbol and Sandplay Therapy
Institute of Therapies for Emotional Transformation, 2023

Accredited by the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapy Association

Accredited by the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia
Certified Practising Registrant #31543

Working with Children Check: WWC2090309E

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Person-centered

The foundation of my therapeutic approach is what is known as ‘person-centered’. I respect that every person is unique and that inside each of us, we have our own, primary, inner knowing. I consider my role as supporting people to express, engage with, and make meaning of their own, inner knowing.

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Studio art therapy

I work in an art studio. In art therapy we call this model ‘studio art therapy’. My studio is full of many creative materials including clay, natural materials, found-objects, collage materials, fibres, fabrics and painting and drawing materials. I support people to choose the creative materials and the creative processes that make intuitive sense to them.

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Sandplay therapy

I also have a sand tray and a Sandplay figurine collection in my studio. People of all ages use Sandplay to create imagery by sculpting the sand and placing figurines in the sand tray. Drawing on the rich diversity of symbolic figurines available helps people to give shape to their creative, inner world.