Meet Rochelle

Rochelle  Melville is a Masters qualified expressive arts therapist and intentional creative who believes coffee should be held, experienced slowly, preferably outdoors with a view, a fountain pen, watercolours and a journal.

Rochelle has over 22 years experience working in the wellbeing and creativity sectors. Rochelle’s experiences as a naturopath and facilitator of arts groups sparked a deep curiosity around the intersectionality of mental health and creativity. This led Rochelle to acquire her formal qualifications as a Registered Arts Therapist.

• Masters  - Therapeutic Arts Practice (MIECAT)
• Registration with the peak professional arts therapists body ANZACATA
• Advanced Diploma – Transpersonal Art Therapy (IKON)
• Sand Tray Training
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
• 2 of 4 years Bachelor of Social Work (QUT)
• Blue Card Holder
• Advanced Diploma – Naturopathy
• Advanced Diploma – Herbal Medicine

Rochelle is committed to cultivating a collaborative therapeutic relationship with each person she works alongside. She is a steadfast believer that every individual has the innate capacity for autonomy, true self expression and a well lived wild and precious life.

Her practice experience is with women, adolescents and children. She works 1:1 with individuals as well as therapeutic focus groups. Her special interest areas are:

• Transitions – moments at crossroads, seasons of feeling stuck or restlessness. Loss or grief often takes us here.
• Perimenopause & midlife – the second springtime. Transitioning from an outward giving focus that served so well during the child bearing and child raising years to an inward, reflective focus. A time of energy conservation, self nourishment, checking our internal compass and re-scaffolding for the coming wise woman years.
• Liminality – when you are not who you were and and you are not who you are becoming, and you are also here and there. It’s the middle space between two spaces. A sense of straddling both and none.
• Spiritual bullying and spiritual trauma - support for deconstruction of systems of beliefs and reestablishing values.
• Working within flexi and alternative school systems. Capacity building and strength cultivation.

Rochelle is a writer and poet and has been published in health and lifestyle books, blogs and magazines. She is an experienced speaker on creativity, self expression and re-wilding. When she is not expressive arts journaling, silversmithing or indoor rock climbing, she is outdoors. She wanders & wonders and runs barefoot along the beach. Rochelle is also a forager of fauna to make nature pigments, natural inks & dyes and for use in botanical print making & cyanotypes. Rochelle is passionate about every individual discovering their own creative genius and releasing it as a rebellion against conformity.