Welcome to the Tree of Me (C) Empowered Art Therapy Program: A Creative Reflective Practice Program

Explore your professional growth through creative reflection.
The Tree of Me program offers an engaging, experiential approach to professional self-care and reflective learning for practitioners in helping and educational professions. Using arts-based processes, participants are guided through structured creative activities designed to enhance self-awareness, build resilience, and deepen understanding of their professional identity and values.

About the Program

The Tree of Me program invites you to explore the symbolic metaphor of the tree as a framework for reflection and growth. Through guided creative mapping, journaling, and visual exploration, you’ll gain fresh insights into the foundations that sustain your practice, the environments that nurture your professional development, and the aspirations that shape your ongoing journey.

This program integrates principles from mindfulness and creative expression to support reflective practice and purposeful self-enquiry — encouraging participants to translate personal insight into meaningful professional application.

Learning Outcomes

By engaging in this course, you will:

  • Develop creative tools to enhance your reflective practice and self-awareness.

  • Strengthen your professional self-care and sense of purpose.

  • Identify values, motivations, and boundaries that sustain ethical and authentic practice.

  • Apply creative mapping processes to clarify professional goals and guide future growth.

  • Gain a set of arts-based reflective exercises to use within your ongoing professional toolkit.

Who This Course is For

This course is suitable for:

  • Practitioners and students in counselling, psychology, social work, education, and creative arts.

  • Professionals seeking to enhance reflective practice and self-care strategies.

  • Those interested in integrating creative and mindful approaches to professional development.

Program Format

Delivered online through guided video sessions, reflective journaling prompts, and visual exercises, Tree of Me Program offers a self-paced, experiential learning journey that encourages integration of creative processes into your personal and professional life.

You’ll complete the program with renewed clarity, creative strategies for reflective practice, and a deeper connection to your professional path.

Accredited by the Australian Counselling Association, this Art Therapy course provides you with OPD points

More about your facilitator:

Kerryn Knight is a Clinical Counsellor, Registered Supervisor, and Lecturer with a passion for creative, reflective practice. A member of the ACA College of Supervisors, PACFA Clinical Registrant, and Professional Member of ANZACATA, Kerryn brings over 30 years of experience spanning counselling, education, business, and the art therapy private practice.

Holding a Master of Arts in Therapeutic Practice and qualifications in Supervision, and Training & Assessment, Kerryn integrates her diverse background to offer engaging, experiential learning for professionals.

As Founder of Kindred Art Space and Empowered Art Therapy Programs, Kerryn provides creative and reflective pathways for professional self-care, insight, and growth. Her warm, practical approach supports practitioners to deepen their understanding of self and strengthen their professional toolkit through accessible, arts-based learning experiences.

What you will need for this online course:

The list of materials below can be sourced at home or at your local art supply store.

 

  • Your choice of size and colour paper/canvas to draw/paint on

  • Your choice of acrylic paint, watercolour paint, coloured markers, pencils or posca pens. 

  • Journal or paper to record your insights