Season 4. Ep.6 Dr. Emma Van Daal- Art Therapist (Aus)
Dr Emma van Daal is an infant mental health consultant and researcher, child
psychotherapist, and arts therapist working in private practice and community organisations
for the past 18 years. Her passion is early intervention of early life trauma incorporating the
arts to nurture attachment and promote healing, having presented internationally and nationally on this work.
She is currently establishing the Centre for Infant Wellbeing with a focus on consultation, supervision, research, and training in creative, playful, and relational approaches as a vital component of perinatal and infant mental health.
Emma's recent publications include mapping the materiality of lived experiencing arguing to (re)conceptualise well-being, trauma, and mental health within a relational, post-humanist, and multimodal ontology that strongly informs her practice, writing, and research.
She enjoys and seeks interdisciplinary collaborations that innovate new ways of doing “intervention” as well as weaving in time for illustration/art-making nurture her own artistic passions.
Links:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emma-Van-Daal
www.infantwellbeingcentre.com.au (new website coming!)
