Counsellor & Creative Therapist

Using therapeutic conversations and creative therapies in counselling to help clients strengthen, heal and grow

Helping clients with

  • Anxiety and worry 
  • Trauma
  • Emotional regulation 
  • Relational stress
  • Social skills
  • Adjusting to change

As a post graduate qualified counsellor, creative therapist, and accredited Primary teacher, Philippa has spent the past 20 years educating adults and children, working with homeless youth and disabled clients, and helping individuals and families through stressful and difficult life situations. Appleyard Therapy is a place where clients can explore their thoughts and feelings through therapeutic creative and play strategies in a safe predictable environment allowing them to grow a sense of responsibility and control over feelings, to establish an internal sense of safety, and to explore strategies for coping with change.