Creative Fierce Tender Sacred Vanessa K Vance

Somatic & Creative Therapist

Vanessa K Vance

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Vanessa K Vance (she/her)

BCouns MCAT AThR M.A.C.A (Level 3)

I am a somatic sex therapist, consent educator and registered Creative Arts Therapist. I studied a Masters of Creative Arts Therapies at Murdoch University, a degree in counselling at Edith Cowan University and sexological bodywork with the Institute of Somatic Sexology. I am a certified Cuddle Party® facilitator, a certified Wheel of Consent® facilitator and facilitate various workshops and classes on embodiment, intimacy, and consent. I also have extensive experience in the tantric and shamanic arts. I am super passionate about providing opportunities for all folks to develop stronger and more positive experiences within their bodies, to improve their communication and connection with others, and to experience more power and freedom as a human being.

I am deeply motivated about furthering the culture of consent, embodiment, and sexual freedom, and advocating for social change through individual awareness and growth.

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You do not have to be an artist to do creative therapies

For many folks expressing through art stopped when they believed the story that their marks on the page, vocal sounds, or dramatic play did not conform to what art should be. The truth is that making and expressing art throughout our lifespan is a healthy and natural way to connect with ourselves and the world. If you are an artist, creative arts therapies offers an opportunity to perhaps let artistic expression be something else for you, a catalyst for change. No matter how small or big, conforming or non-conforming, every mark, movement, or sound is a creative, fierce, tender, or sacred part of us worthy of being in the world.

Creativity is a fundamental part of being human

When we make choices, take action, express emotion or engage in coping strategies, we are being creative. We are adapting and innovating all the time as we navigate the struggles of life. Through creative arts therapy practices we can connect with our innate creative force and use it for positive change. We activate our spontaneity that allows us to move out of stagnation and into aliveness. When we make or express art in our chosen medium, we engage in a type of creativity that can move and uncover our deeper stuff so that it can be seen, felt, and heard in ways that we are ready to experience.

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Somatic therapies work with the mind-body, the Soma.

There is an intelligence in the body that can support us to grow and change and somatic therapies show us how to listen, relate and integrate this wisdom. Somatic therapies work directly with the nervous system and include practices such as breath, sound, movement, and touch. Somatic practices are doorways into unresolved hurts and traumas held in the body but also strengths and resiliencies that allow us to positively adapt to life’s challenges.

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Creative expression brings the psychotherapy process into contact with the continuities of healing through art, ritual, and ceremony. It allows the direct communication and expression of personal imagery and bodily sensations. Expressive arts therapy can be viewed as a modern manifestation of shamanism, sharing common emphases on the fundamental necessity of the human spirit to seek transcendence and intensify sensory experience, strivings for balance between the individual and the community, needs to react creatively to existential fluctuations and change, and the desire to participate in life affirming rituals.

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I wish to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this land upon which I live, work and play, the Whadjuk Noongar people, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters, and community. I pay my respects to them and their cultures; and to elders both past and present.