Our Story
CAYA Art Space started in 2021 during the tumultuous COVID lockdowns in Naarm/Melbourne. We started by offering public art workshops that aimed to bring people together socially and creatively.
Our offerings have evolved and we now solely provide Art Therapy and Art for Wellbeing services. We create in-person & online therapeutic opportunities for individuals and groups to connect with art-making, others & themselves. We work within community, educational and clinical spaces.
We chose the name ‘CAYA’ as it stands for ‘Come As You Are'. This reflects our forever-ethos of our creative spaces: We welcome you as you are.
Our Mission
Improve social & emotional health through creativity, connection and play.
Our Team
Giulia
Giulia (she/her) is a qualified Art Therapist with Masters training and experience in Art Therapy, adult and youth mental health, disability and NDIS, pscyho-social rehabilitation, forensic psychiatry and youth work.
To create is to express, and to express means to be connected with yourself and others.
There is no one size fits all to the practice of creativity, and Giulia feels immensely privileged to be able to support people to connect with this part of themselves in the ways that are meaningful and relevant to them.
Jordy
Jordy (she/they) is a Masters-trained, registered Art Therapist with experience in adult mental health work, youth work, visual arts, disability work, community wellbeing and trauma-informed practice.
Outside of CAYA, she works with people living with cancer, supporting the psycho-social impacts that occur from point of diagnosis, during treatment, through survival and/or facing death.
Jordy is most known for ensuring there is space for both deep seriousness & deep silliness throughout her work. She focuses on building a strong therapeutic relationship with clients that can act as a foundation on which to explore things that may otherwise feel too heavy, overwhelming or out of reach.