Meet Rain
Hi, I'm Rain — a Creative Arts Therapist and Arts-Based Researcher. I believe that the way you take in the world — however tender, however complex, however different — has always been enough. My work lives at the intersection of creativity, relationship, and the living world, and it begins from the premise that belonging starts with being known, not adjusted.
I am not here to help anyone fit into the existing system.
I am here to create a place where you don't have to.
As a practitioner (and human) I’m gentle, attuned, and — I'm not going to lie — a little bit dorky.
I believe there are as many ways of being in the world as there are people in it, and I hold none of them as more true than another. I am endlessly interested in how we listen, how we learn, and how we express what words alone can't quite reach.
As a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and empath, it's been an ongoing journey of finding balance in a world that moves too quickly, too loudly — while asking you to feel less and do more. The more I made space for my own way of listening and relating, the more I became the person I wish I had growing up.
Children have always found their way to me. Long before any of this became a practice, I was the person carrying watercolours and bubbles in my handbag — just in case. (Just in case of what, exactly, nobody knows — and I can't tell you how many times they have come in handy!)
I have a particular softness for little people, and the big people who love them.
Professional Background
I hold a Master of Therapeutic Arts Practice from The MIECAT Institute, a Bachelor of Information Systems from Monash University, and a Graduate Certificate and Certificate III in Early Childhood Education from Victoria University.
I have worked across clinic and early childhood settings for over five years, supporting children and families in a range of therapeutic and educational contexts.
Alongside arts therapy and counselling, I am trained in the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) & Rest and Restore Protocol (RRP), and am currently completing Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Clinical Certification. I also hold training in holistic modalities including PSYCH-K® and Access Bars®.
Alongside clinical practice, I engage in arts-based research exploring how children sense and relate to the more-than-human world — through embodied, place-based, and creative ways of knowing.
Rain Ali (she/her)
Creative Arts Therapist · Arts-Based Researcher
MTAP, RCC, B.InfoSys, GCECE, Cert III ECE