Sarah Brooke Counselling

Sarah offers counselling to those experiencing mental health difficulties or those seeking a better understanding of themselves to make more conscious choices.

Her work with individuals and families has spanned over a decade. She provides comfort, understanding, and professional knowledge to help people like you get through trying times.

As your counsellor, she encourages clients to be curious, to make sense of traumatic experiences and view difficulties with greater self-compassion and understanding. 

She specialises in working with 16-year-olds and young adults who face a wide range of problems, including:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Grief
• Difficulty regulating emotions
• Recent and childhood trauma
• Relationship difficulties

Sarah offers both in-person and Telehealth appointments.

Services Offered

Sensorimotor Art Therapy

Sarah provides a non-judgmental environment where people’s stories are treated with respect and care.

Trauma-informed and attachment theories influence her approach, and she sees the relationship as crucial to the therapeutic process. 

Taking a client-centred approach, Sarah particularly draws on:

• Mindfulness-based psychotherapies
• Hakomi
• Internal Family Systems 
• Sensorimotor Art Therapy
• Narrative Therapy 
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Sensorimotor Art Therapy is somatic psychotherapy based on a bottom-up approach. The term sensorimotor refers to the role of sensory input and movement.

Sensorimotor processing is helpful in regulating emotion and arousal, fostering growth, and facilitating expansion after complex trauma. 

The activities bring you into closer contact with your body-its feelings, its movements, its signals, and your inherent healing ability. 

Activities can help you explore your identity, feel less stuck, and strengthen your capacity to cope with big emotions.

Individual Sessions

Sensorimotor art therapy sessions will last 1.5 hours to allow time for your process, with each session tailored to your healing intention and therapeutic needs.

A mindfulness practice will begin the session to help clarify your intention. A creative art process will follow this and end with time for harvesting and integrating the results.

Art mediums may include:

• Oil 
• Chalk pastels
• Paint
• Clay
  Glitter
• Feathers
• Plasticine
• Pieces of nature
• Buttons
• Everything you can use for art

Workshops

Sarah offers workshops for groups of 4 to 5 people. She welcomes current clients and the broader community. 

For first time attendees, Sarah will arrange a phone call to understand how the workshop fits into your current life stage.

Art skills are not required. Wear loose-fitting clothes you don't mind getting messy.

Opening Hours

• Monday: Closed
• Tuesday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
• Wednesday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
• Thursday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
• Friday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
• Saturday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
• Sunday: Closed

Call or email Sarah to find out how this form of psychotherapy can help you or to make an appointment.