Constructing Autistic Wellbeing
This Collage Play Date and Making Space explores art-making as therapy, mindful experiencing and an accessible ‘language’ to help hold and communicate your emotional experience.
Special guest Arts therapist, Psychotherapist & supervisor, Rae Sabine, will be on hand to answer any questions about the art making process, ‘self-help’ art making and also how working with an creative arts therapist can be a quite helpful mode of therapy for Autistic people.
Prompt Themes:
Favourite colour
Inner child
Wildness
My Autistic self
My favourite things
Or choose your own
Linda Tuxford-Adams
She / They
AuDHD, C-PTSD
Linda Tuxford-Adams is an integrative counsellor & educator with lived experience, with a background in psychology, education, group facilitation, research and counselling.
She is a late-identified AuDHD adult with Complex PTSD, passionate about providing neuro-affirming, trauma-sensitive, accessible, affordable support for late-identified Autistic adults.
She founded Neurokindred in 2022. She holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology (Honours) and Education, a Graduate Certificate in Autism & Neurodivergent Studies, and is pursuing a Master’s in Counselling & Psychotherapy. She also holds certifications as a Certified Autism Clinical Specialist (ASDCS), ADHD Clinical Service Provider (ADHD-CSP), and Trauma Treatment Professional (CTTP I & II).
Her therapeutic approach draws from many modalities, including parts work, narrative therapy, trauma coaching & psychoeducation, sensori-motor practice, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, therapeutic art, bibliotherapy, scriptotherapy. She emphasises honouring neurodivergent neurology, self-exploration, and connection to neurokin.
Neurokindred
Rae Sabine
they/them
Rae Sabine is a trans non-binary, multiple neurodivergent, and chronically ill arts therapist, psychotherapist, and supervisor living and working in unceded Wurundjeri Country, Kulin Nations. They are deeply passionate about disability rights, LGBTQIA+ justice, and mental health, and draw on lived experience to inform their practice. Rae offers supervision, psychotherapy, individual and group arts therapy, and specialises in supporting neurodivergent, trans and non-binary people, and those with chronic illness, bringing a strengths-based, peer support-informed, and creative approach. They also have experience facilitating workshops and therapeutic art spaces in diverse settings including LGBTQIA+ bereavement programs, trans/gender diverse youth at Amplified Victoria, and government services. Rae holds a Graduate Diploma in Therapeutic Arts Practice and a Bachelor of Arts Psychotherapy.