Sandra has specialised Therapeutic Arts skills supporting people with:

• Cancer Survivorship, through diagnosis, treatment, and  beyond.  Having run workshops for a variety of cancer support organisations, Sandra is often a guest speaker or facilitator for various cancer support groups.

 

• ASD (Autism/Aspergers). Living in a neuro-diverse world. Including parenting and partnering, and living well authentically.  Providing one on one services as well as regular group facilitation at Asperger's Victoria. 

 

• Elderly.  Living in aged care or in the community.   Experienced designing dementia specific programs and interventions. Counselling people and their families and their carers through transition.  Palliative support.                 ​Behavioural and Recreational therapies and​ Art-as-Therapy Groups. ​ ​

 
Clients come to Sandra for a broad range of concerns including:

• Acquired brain injury (ABI).
• Anxiety.
• Carer support
• Depression
• Disability
• Domestic Violence
• Family Dysfunction
• Feeling stuck, wanting change
• Fertility Issues
• Homelessness, support for elderly, women and mental health in homeless populations
• Living with an iIllness diagnoisis 
• Loss, grief, guilt
• Palliative Care and End of Life
• Pregnancy, miscarriage
• Processing trauma
• Self-love
• The Inner critic
• Transition, through stages of the human lifecycle,
• ​Women’s health

​This practise celebrates the richness of Neurodiversity and is ​LGBTQ+ inclusive.

Appointments are currently available
private clients
self-managed and plan-managed NDIS clients

​If you are a member of private health insurer, you may be eligable for rebates.

Contact Sandra directly to enquire about outreach services and concession fees available

Image: Titled 'free'. By Sandra Buchanan.
​arcylic on paper, 15cm x 20cm Published with permission

​© Sandra Buchanan — 2015