Welcome to Creating Care – a collaborative space that Art Therapist Louise Weston of Creating Insights calls home, shared with wonderful practitioners working across the neurodiversity paradigm.

IMAGINE finding a space that you love, that fulfils your needs, and offers opportunities for others to receive affirming care, or to offer their services. Thanks to the planets aligning, I stumbled across an opportunity too good to pass up.

A space that aims to provide comfort, connection, collaboration, and creativity among those who visit, work, or gather here.

This space began with a moment of recognition while driving past an incredible location and realising it could become something more: a warm, neuro-affirming place where people feel safe to be fully themselves.

I intentionally moved away from the word “clinic” and any deficit-based language, allowing myself to lean into my interests, quirks, and lived experience. As a mum who has spent years in sterile, overwhelming clinical spaces, I knew there had to be another way to experience support.

The Creating Care Studio Practice is designed around choice and control, lighting, sound, warmth, and sensory comfort – all of which matter here. It’s a temenos: an enchanting, curious space that invites reflection and insight.

This philosophy flows through my art therapy practice, Creating Insights, where we believe we can create insights together, because “it’s not what you make, it’s how it makes you feel.”

We are located in the leafy outer suburbs of Warranwood in Naarm, on Wurundjeri Country.

IMAGINE being part of the change…

Our values: cultural humility, awareness of systemic ableism, and inclusion

Working neuro-affirmingly requires not only therapeutic insight but also cultural humility and awareness of systemic ableism. Societal structures often prioritise neurotypical norms in education, workplaces, and even family systems, conditioning individuals to suppress or mask their natural ways of thinking and being. This can result in shame, exhaustion, and identity confusion. In families where neurodivergence is unacknowledged or misunderstood, individuals may experience exclusion or pressure to conform, leading to emotional distress and self-doubt.

Ableism is often internalised across generations, perpetuating the idea that neurotypical functioning is superior. This conditioning results in systems that cater to the majority rather than the individual. In such environments, acceptance and inclusion may rely on a single teacher, parent, or colleague practising radical acceptance, deep listening, and genuine curiosity about neurodivergent experience.

The team of practitioners at the Creating Care Studio Practice are passionate about providing neurodiversity affirming services, psycho-education, and groups for:

• Neurodivergent folk
• Carers and family members
• Teachers and schools
• Staff and businesses
• Mild to moderate mental health
• Care teams

 

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