Season 2. Ep.9 Matilda Dawson - Art Therapist (Australia)

Tilly (she/her) has been a registered and practicing art therapist since 2017.

Tilly came to art therapy from a merge of interest in her studies in Psychology and work in design. For the last 5+ years, Tilly has worked as an art therapist at the Children’s Cancer Centre at The Royal Children’s Hospital to deliver individual/group sessions in a family-centred care model for patients and their families across their cancer journey.

Tilly is also the art therapist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre since early 2022. This role specialises in supporting the psychosocial needs of adult patients and their families through individual inpatient art therapy sessions. Tilly has also been a casual Academic at La Trobe University with the Master of Art Therapy since 2020.

Tilly’s areas of interest and applications in art therapy are palliative care, trauma-informed practices, somatic art therapy, supervision and the impact of architecture/design of the environment in wellbeing spaces.

matilda.r.dawson@gmail.com