by Dione Davies | Art Therapy, Counselling, Finding myself
A most amazing podcast I recently listened to an amazing podcast and I just had to share a thing from it! Do you like podcasts? I love podcasts! Maybe it’s because I’m not a very good reader. I’m a good reader but I don’t enjoy reading...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
The miracle question There is a counselling approach called Solution Focused Therapy and one of the techniques that they use in this counseling approach is called the miracle question. This question is a life changer. And I sometimes accidentally say the golden...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
About focus and positive thinking Do you know how a camera works? How you can focus a camera? You know you turn the front or, you know, you push a button on your phone or whatever. Anyway what happens is that you can choose which part of what you see will be in sharp...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
I’m going to talk to you about free writing. Now I don’t know who came up with this term. I didn’t. It’s not my thing. I learned it from my sister Shelly in a creative writing class she taught. Some people call it stream of consciousness...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, Counselling, Depression
Hi! It feels like a long time since I’ve talked to you but it probably isn’t for you! Recently I followed through on something I mentioned in a previous video and I attempted to go up the Hakarimatas with my daughter. And it was an interesting experience!...
by Dione Davies | Art Journalling, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Finding myself
Hey everyone! This is Dione from After the Rain Arts Therapy. The lover of art journaling. The person who raves on and on about the positive benefits of art and the life lessons you can learn! That’s me A favourite saying I wanted to share an art journalling...
by Dione Davies | Art Therapy, Counselling, Finding myself
Hi everyone! This is Dione from After the Rain Arts Therapy online. I wanted to share with you a book about me. I offered it as a one-day course at one stage and had a few people come and it was so fun! And I made this book. Now it’s been in a box for a few...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Depression
s I’m a different kind of counsellor. Lots of counsellors are very particular about what personal information they share and I am very particular about how I do that, but I don’t hesitate to share my personal things, if it’s relevant. And in this...
by Dione Davies | Art Journalling, Art Therapy, Counselling, Finding myself
Hey I wanted to show you another scrapbook page. This one is called 8 simple rules for making Dione happy. I really liked doing this page because I did some sewing on it with a sewing machine. On the back you can see the sewing. Using art to strengthen your sense of...
by Dione Davies | Art Journalling, Art Therapy, Counselling, Finding myself
Hey I’ve got another art journaling page oh no it’s not art Journalling, it’s a scrapbook page. I started with scrapbooking but now I use all the parts of scrapbooking that I love in my art journalling. I think about journalling and...
by Dione Davies | Art Therapy, Counselling
What is a session like with Dione? What’s an art therapy online session like? It’s a very good question I’ve had recently. So you probably know that I’m a creative arts therapist and that means that I try and use people’s creative...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
Who are you? Who are you really? Not who did your parents raise you to be? Not who does your family, friends, children expect you to be? But who are you actually? Feeling lost? Think about questions like these When you are feeling lost and confused, we often think we...
