Season 1 -Ep. 3 Alana Stewart - Art Therapist (Australia)
Alana Stewart is a Registered Art Therapist practicing on the land of the Wurrundjeri People of the Kulin nation.
She deeply values art, creativity, and nature as sources of healing and integral aspects of human life that promote health. With the lived experience of neurodivergence, she primarily works with individuals who also have neurodivergence, such as autism and ADHD, as well as other disability and commonly co-occurring experiences of complex trauma.
Alana has been working in the disability field since 2012, drawing inspiration from her two passionate parents who are lived experience disability advocates.
Recently, she has almost completed her course in forest therapy guiding with the International Nature and Forest Therapy Alliance, and runs her private practice, Finding Wellbeing, alongside being the director of the Yellow Gum Art Therapy Studio, a studio location which now multiple arts therapists practice from.
Alana runs a Peer Supervision Group, please email for inquiries: stewarttherapist@gmail.com
Private practice: www.finding-wellbeing.com
Studio Location: www.yellowgum.art
Forest therapy: www.yellowgum.art/foresttherapy