Isabella (she/they) is the owner and founder of SIMUL✺ Creative Arts Therapy and currently works privately in various locations across Naarm (Melbourne) Australia . She is a Masters qualified & registered Creative Arts Therapist, MA AThR and has professional membership to ANZACATA (ANZACATA is the peak professional body representing creative arts therapists in Australia, New Zealand, and the Asia/Pacific region). Isabella completed her education at The MIECAT Institute.

As a multi-faceted, wearer of many hats and alongside their Creative Arts Therapy practice, Isabella also works as a Positive Behaviour Support practitioner at Able Australia. She is passionate about placing lived experience at the core of her practice and centering the voices of those she works alongside. Isabella works with a range of abilities to support in building people’s capacity, personal autonomy, and values all forms of expression. The space offered is LGBTIAQ+ friendly, neurodivergent affirming, and accepting of all Peoples. 

Isabella’s approach is trauma-informed, person-centered and grounded in connectedness as a way of working to build trusting relationships. She has been working alongside adolescents and adults in supporting emotional regulation, understanding social barriers, supporting people to build self-compassion, and discovering their voice through the process of Creative Arts Therapy.

Isabella works creatively from an embodied and somatic lens as a way of entering into presence and working with the moment. Isabella works with passion to support the whole person framework through the consideration of the Polyvagal Theory and Intersectionality. Their multi-modal value is not limited to any one modality. Isabella encourages the intermodal shift using creative writing, movement, visual arts, expressive dance, presence, and working with the intimacy of the moment as the access & entry point to meaning-making.

Isabella is dedicated to developing honest, genuine, and connected therapeutic relationships and is equipped to hold what arises. She is passionate about ongoing learning in the fields of Creative Arts Therapy, Mental Health, and Disability. Isabella acknowledges that the therapeutic space can sometimes be challenging and will always show up with empathy, compassion, openness, playfulness, positivity, and inclusion.

Areas of experience:
✺ Depression & Anxiety
✺ PTSD & complex lived experiences
✺ Neurodivergence
✺ Adolescent mental health
✺ All Abilities
✺ Self-harm
✺ Identity & Self-esteem
✺ Life transitions
✺ Eating challenges
✺ Sexuality and LGBTQIA+

Isabella also welcomes and has experience working with NDIS participants