Emma Smith Trickett is an accredited, Masters qualified Creative Arts Therapist (BA, MA AThr)/ Psychotherapist, registered with ANZACATA and PACFA. Emma is a community focused practitioner, with a special interest in attachment and relationships, trauma and emotions.
Emma is an Academic Teacher at The MIECAT Institute, one of the leading Art Therapy Universities in the country.
Emma has a Masters qualification in Art Therapy. Art Therapy is a Mental Health approach, similar to counselling - incorporating art making into the process. Emma is trained to utilise many different artistic modes in a therapeutic context, such as drawing, painting, collage, clay work, sand tray, drama and more.
Emma can provide talk based counselling and psychotherapy. Therapy can be an ongoing conversation that focuses on you, your needs, your lived experience and working through difficulties.
Emma has a special interest in trauma, emotion focused therapy and challenging attachment experiences with caregivers. She has completed significant training in this area and currently works with children, teenagers and adults with lived experience of trauma.
Emma has extensive experience working with individuals who are neurodivergent, both adults and children alongside their caregivers. Emma is a trauma informed practitioner, offering a neuroaffirming therapy approach that supports each persons unique needs. In this context, Emma has worked for many years with children who are on the spectrum and children who have experienced trauma.
Emma has training in couples and relationships therapy and is very interested in this area of practise. This work relates to work with families and is also often a focus of individual therapy as well, as relationship difficulties are very common.
Alongside therapy, Emma is an Academic Teacher, facilitating subjects in the Masters program at The MIECAT Institute and supervising students.
