Naomi is a registered creative arts therapist and clinical supervisor, based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. She works predominantly within the Master’s programme as a lecturer and research supervisor.
Naomi has a decade of experience working with diverse populations and community organisations, facilitating group and individual creative arts therapy. Her experience is with adult mental health, intellectual disability, child and adolescent neurodivergence, trauma, grief, as well as elderly and dementia care. For the past six years, she has been working with survivors of sexual violence through ACC from her small private practice in Ōrewa, where she also supports other creative arts therapists from Aotearoa as a registered clinical supervisor.
Naomi is a registered creative arts therapist and clinical supervisor, based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. She works predominantly within the Master’s programme as a lecturer and research supervisor.
Naomi has a decade of experience working with diverse populations and community organisations, facilitating group and individual creative arts therapy. Her experience is with adult mental health, intellectual disability, child and adolescent neurodivergence, trauma, grief, as well as elderly and dementia care. For the past six years, she has been working with survivors of sexual violence through ACC from her small private practice in Ōrewa, where she also supports other creative arts therapists from Aotearoa as a registered clinical supervisor.
Alongside her master’s in arts therapy, which she completed in 2018, Naomi has a bachelor of arts in social anthropology and religious studies, a postgraduate diploma in psychotherapy studies, and a postgraduate certificate in child and adolescent mental health. She is currently working towards completing her PhD in education. In her PhD, she is utilising poetic, weaving, and story-telling practices, alongside quantum physics philosophies, to pay attention to the origin stories and histories we inherit when we become creative arts therapists in Aotearoa. Naomi is continually drawn to the natural world for inspiration and connection in her research and has woven a series of pine needle baskets as part of this work. She has published much of her doctoral writing in various international journals.
Naomi is a greyhound-mum and lives gently with the land in an off-grid small home in rural north-west Tāmaki Makaurau with her husband and soon to be born pēpē.
