Creative Rituals
Transformative * Collaborative * Intuitive * Creative
About Ruthellen:
As well as traditional counselling and psychotherapy, Elizabeth @ Ruthellen offers creative and expressive therapies. This includes Sensorimotor Art Therapy (through guided drawing) and tailored healing rituals and ceremonies. These are mindful exploration and intention-setting processes for personal development, life-transitions, cleansing, letting go, energising, and moving forward. The most simple version of this is the common practice of writing something down and then burning or burying it. Our therapies support you to find the most fitting way to represent the issues you’re facing, including processing emotional stuckness through bodily movement and physical or creative expression. It can include talking, making images or sculptures, and guided ritual or ceremony.
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If you’re wishing for someone to help orient you in a meaningful creative-therapeutic process, we can help you find a focus, clarify intention, or pinpoint key questions for further exploration and action. We will always aim to assist you to (re)connect with your own inner wisdom (rather than direct or gatekeep your experience). We can also help in the creative process of identifying potent metaphors and symbols that you can bring into the process to help represent your process in the material world, in a grounded and powerful way.
We use a creative, intuitive, and attuned consultation-based process to get to know you and design a beautiful ritual that is made especially for you, based on what you need now. While these services might benefit people with clinical symptoms, they are not designed to replace clinical ‘treatments’. Because our primary clinician also has knowledge and skills in a broad range of clinical and non-clinical treatment and assessments, as a registered clinical psychologist, she can advise you on options for clinical assessment with another practitioner if required.
If expressive avenues are not your realm, you are welcome to come and just talk things through in a one-off counselling session, or enquire about the waitlist for ongoing regular (relational/psychodynamic) psychotherapy.
Go to the services page to book an initial session.
Email to enquire about appointments outside of the advertised hours.
Services
Birthing Prep
Our packages are well suited for certain special life events. We can help create a grounding symbol or process to assist in birth and preparation for birth.
Check our Special Projects page: here.
Consultations
Book an initial consultation and work together to either create your own tools and rituals, or have Ruthellen design and make something for you.
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Consultations:
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* Special projects: ​Individual and group workshops for Birthing Mothers.
Symbols
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A selection of ready-made burnable symbols and paraphernalia for your self-designed rituals.
*Coming Soon*
Why come to Ruthellen?
If you're feeling stuck in your current circumstances, or perhaps with a creative project or life decision: supported self-reflection can lead to insight and understanding about what is keeping you stuck. Making a clear action, such as performing a ritual can assist with clarifying intentions and building initiative.
OVERCOMING STUCKNESS
If you feel like life is moving on without you: Exploring your feelings and honouring a loss through ceremony and ritual can help you process the loss of a loved one, a home, job, or other cherished aspect of life. Or perhaps you need to say goodbye to an old version of you.
MOVING ON
If you're looking forward and ready to move on but need clarity about what comes next. Taking time to connect with your desires and aspirations, clarifying them and bringing them into material existence using symbols in mindful practice can be an excellent way to ground yourself while you create and enact your vision.