Early Childhood intervention
Creative, relational support for young children and their families — following the child's lead through play, art-making, and connection. Offered by a Reggio Emilia trained early childhood educator and creative arts therapist, sessions are open invitations rather than programs, shaped by what the child brings rather than a predetermined approach. This work is not about behaviour modification or compliance — it is about learning, expression, and the relationships that make both possible. NDIS funding may be available for self- and plan-managed participants.
Early childhood is not a smaller version of therapy. It is its own world — one where learning and expression happen through movement, materials, image, and relationship rather than words. This work is shaped by that understanding.
Informed by Reggio Emilia principles and creative arts therapy, sessions with young children are offered as open invitations — provocations, in the Reggio sense — where materials, space, and relationship create conditions for children to express, explore, and make meaning in ways that belong to them. An art therapy inquiry and a Reggio provocation are, at their heart, very similar: a space where curiosity leads and nothing needs to be performed or corrected.
This is not behaviour modification. It is not about compliance, readiness, or shaping a child into something more manageable. It is about learning, connection, play, and communication — and about adults learning to read and respond to what children are already saying - in 100 different languages.
Young children and families find their way to this work around experiences including transitions and separation anxiety; big feelings and emotional expression; co-regulation and nervous system support; reading and responding to children's cues; sensory processing and learning differences; social engagement, sharing, and entering play; school and kinder readiness; and the relational patterns that form between children and their caregivers in the early years.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
This work is for families who sense that something is happening beneath the surface — and who want support that meets their child where they are rather than asking them to be different. It may resonate if you are navigating a transition or change in your child's life; noticing your child is struggling to connect, co-regulate, or communicate; wanting to understand your child's cues more deeply; or looking for a space that honours your child's way of being rather than managing it.
This work may not be the right fit if you are looking for strategies to make your child calmer or more compliant, or for a program with predefined behavioural outcomes.
Parent-only sessions are also available for caregivers wanting space to reflect on what arises in them in the caregiving relationship.
Related Resources
Artful Beginnings: Art Therapy in Early Childhood Intervention
Exploring art therapy for children’s wellbeing & development
When Words Are Hard to Find: Art as a Voice for Non-Verbal Children
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Rain & Me. Children's Therapy offers arts therapy and counselling-based therapeutic support. Creative modalities are used as primary therapeutic processes within a counselling framework, and services are evidence-informed. Therapeutic supports are tailored to individual needs through collaborative care planning. Outcomes vary and cannot be guaranteed. NDIS services are available where appropriate and aligned with participant plans and funding approval. Rain & Me. Children's Therapy works with self-managed and plan-managed participants.