I am a multimodal Creative Arts Therapist (AThR) and professional member of the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association (ANZACATA). They are the peak professional body for creative arts therapists in the Asia/Pacific.

I hold a Master's in Therapeutic Arts Practice with a specialisation in Community Arts and Health, awarded by the MIECAT Institute—the Melbourne Institute of Creative and Experiential Art Therapies.

I work multimodally, which means I value all forms of expressing/creating as equal in what I do. This means I work across visual, digital, physical and musical artforms.

I am a service designer with a background in digital and physical customer & visitor experience design, having worked at large arts institutions in Melbourne for the majority of my career.

My approach is relational and multimodal, influenced by the MIECAT Form of Inquiry and Relational Systems Thinking.

I am passionate about emotional culture and wellbeing within workplaces and communities.
I firmly believe that grounding organisational values within how we feel at work or deliver our services is an integral part of connecting what we say with what we do.

I am an accredited Emotional Culture Deck Practitioner, certified by elephants&riders. Combined with my training as a Creative Arts Therapist and experience as systems and service designer, I help organisations form values, define systems and deconstruct systems.

I studied both Musical Theatre and Jazz Improvisation at the Victorian College of the Arts. I have toured nationally and internationally as a cabaret artist, under the stage name Jessamae St James.

My art practice is now focused on site-specific work that explores experiential and therapeutic qualities using analog and digital tools.