Creative Soul Therapy
Clarity, insight, reconnection & new possibilities
Creative Soul Therapy is a creative, somatic, relational, nature-connected, transpersonal therapeutic process that helps you explore your life experiences, navigate challenges, nurture your wellbeing, rediscover self-acceptance and self-love, and uncover new perspectives and possibilities.
Together, we become curious about the challenges you are facing, not simply as problems to solve, but as experiences that may hold insight, invite transformation, and deepen your connection with yourself, others, nature, and life itself.
At its heart are two guiding principles: that we all carry innate wisdom, creativity and resources, even when we cannot yet recognise or access them; and that we are part of a larger, living, intelligent and interconnected world through which wisdom, meaning and new possibilities can emerge.
Through creative expression, symbols, embodied awareness, creative inquiry, imaginal processes, presence and connection, Creative Soul Therapy supports you in exploring and processing inner experiences, thoughts and feelings, discovering inner and outer resources, and finding new insights, perspectives and possibilities.
From this place of reconnection, a renewed sense of safety, peace, wonder and aliveness can begin to emerge.
Creative Soul Therapy brings together:
🌻 Somatic Practices and Nervous System Support
Developing greater awareness of your body and learning its language. Exploring ways to support regulation, grounding, and connection.
🌻 Creative Arts Therapy
Creative Arts Therapy uses expressive processes such as art, creative writing, movement, storytelling, sculpting, sound, nature, symbol work, and imaginative play to help you explore and express inner experiences, feelings, emotions, perceptions, and thoughts, while supporting holistic wellbeing.
Creative Arts Therapy can reintroduce experiences of play, curiosity, creativity, and aliveness.
You don't need artistic ability or experience. The focus is on expression, exploration, and self-discovery rather than on creating "art" in a traditional sense.
🌻 Imaginal Exploration
Entering the liminal realm of images, symbols, metaphors and archetypes as potential sources of insight, guidance, meaning, and wellbeing.
🌻 Mindfulness and mindfulness-based inquiry Practices
Cultivating present-moment awareness, curiosity, and a compassionate relationship with our inner experience. Mindfulness-based inquiry helps us uncover and question thoughts, beliefs, and patterns that create limitation, stress, and suffering.
🌻 Nature-Based Approaches
Connecting with the natural world as a source of wisdom, reflection, perspective, nourishment, connection, and wonder.
🌻 Indigenous and relational wisdom
Drawing respectfully on Indigenous perspectives that understand wellbeing through relationship and interconnectedness with ourselves, each other, nature, community, ancestors, Spirit and the living world.
I support you in finding clarity, new perspectives, and possibilities as you move through life’s challenges and changes, creating space to listen to the guidance, alchemy, and wisdom that live within you and around you.
I am a passionate student of Life and the human journey. Originally from Mexico, I’ve made New Zealand and Australia my home for the last 16 years.
I've been on my own journey with chronic conditions and existential turmoil. After facing limited treatment options and feeling intense frustration at being unable to work and function properly, I made a heartfelt intention: To trust my body, listen to Life and explore the depth and layers of healing.
This made me unveil and question my limiting thoughts, underlying beliefs and personal and ancestral wounds that were creating suffering and stress. I reconnected with my body, nature, ancestral wisdom, intuition, and creativity.
What started as a wish to feel better, ‘heal’, and return to my ‘normal life’ turned into a profoundly transformative path, where confusion, sadness, anger, chronic pain, and exhaustion shifted into clarity, peace, presence, and gratitude for Life. I understood that challenges can become opportunities and that healing goes far beyond the ‘removal’ or improvement of symptoms.
I am a registered Creative Arts Therapist (ANZACATA) and an Inner-Work facilitator with 15 years of experience as a wellbeing facilitator, educator, and Nutritionist. Through my work, I support children, teenagers, and adults on their journeys of reconnection, self-love, transformation, and holistic wellbeing.
In my path, I’ve been fortunate to learn from inspiring teachers and wisdom traditions. You can read more about my training and studies here.
Hi, Welcome! I’m Norma (Layo)
Ways we can work together
The Inner Oracle
1:1 Sessions (online or in-person)
A playful and creative inquiry to reconnect with your inner guidance and the wisdom that lives within you and around you.
Reconnecting to Life- Rekindling Aliveness
Group or 1:1 sessions
Creative Arts Therapy for people living with chronic conditions and sensitive nervous systems.
Ancestral connection
1:1 Sessions (online or in-person)
Integrating individual and ancestral resources and wisdom. Exploring intergenerational patterns and healing.
For Children & Teenagers
Creative Arts Therapy & Sandplay Therapy
A supportive and playful space for children and teenagers to explore emotions, experiences and challenges through creativity, imagination, symbols and play.
Art materials, storytelling and creating scenes with sand and miniature figures offer different ways to express and explore what may be difficult to put into words.
Sessions offer opportunities for emotional understanding, self-expression, connection, confidence and wellbeing, with space for each young person’s interests, needs and pace.
When we work together....
When we work together....
You’ll be safely and compassionately guided to tap into your own innate wisdom. Together, we’ll explore new possibilities and perspectives in your life, helping you find your way to healing and wholeness.
You’ll rekindle your curiosity, creativity, inspiration, and playfulness, because yes!, you can embrace these qualities even while facing difficult challenges.
You’ll learn to reconnect with your precious, unique self. You’ll rediscover your connection to nature, your breath, the present moment, the imaginal realm and the intelligence of life.
You will engage in practices to help you integrate unprocessed personal, ancestral, or collective wounds and patterns that once served to protect you.
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Online and in-person sessions in Healesville, Vic.
I believe financial circumstances shouldn't prevent you from accessing support. When you need it, I offer a sliding scale, and you're welcome to get in touch to discuss a fee that feels manageable for you.
NDIS participants with self-managed or plan-managed funding are welcome.
Take the next step.
Fill out this quick form, and I’ll be in touch within 36 business hours.
You can also email me to: norma(at)reconnectingtolife(dot)com