The Curious Place
Explore. Discover. Create. Emerge.
At The Curious Place, you’re welcomed with compassion and respect. This supportive space encourages you to explore, reflect, uncover your strengths and resources, discover in a collaborative, creative, and playful way. Gayle is here to help you find your path to well-being.
No prior experience is needed—just come as you are.
A Tailored Approach
Gayle’s sessions are flexible and adaptive, tailored to meet your unique needs. Leveraging her expertise in experiential approaches, creative arts therapy, body-based (somatic), trauma informed practices, and person centred education she employs a range of methods to foster your growth.
Together, you’ll explore diverse approaches to help you feel more connected and empowered.
Creative and Embodied Practices
Your journey may include creative activities like art-making, movement, storytelling, or nature exploration.
Somatic and embodied practices will help you tune into your body, while reflection invites insight and understanding. Each session is tailored to support your well-being and goals.
A Curious Approach
Curiosity sits at the heart of how we will work. Together, we slow down, pay attention to what’s happening in the moment, and stay open to new possibilities. This gentle, present‑focused way of exploring often creates the space needed for real change to unfold.
In our work together, we use a mix of creative and experiential approaches that gently invite curiosity about your own experience. This might include paying attention to your senses, your body, movement, thoughts, images, metaphors, patterns, feelings, values and what matters to you. It’s an exploratory way of getting to know yourself more fully and emerge into your possibilities.
Ways we work together
- Experiential and Creative Arts Therapy Practices (using art‑making, movement, imagery and hands‑on exploration to support expression and insight)
- Somatic Experiencing (noticing body sensations to understand stress, patterns and regulation)
- Guided Drawing (using simple drawing processes to explore feelings, thoughts and experiences)
- Clayfield (working with clay to support grounding, expression and emotional processing)
- Psycho‑education to develop personal understandings and choice (offering clear information to help you make sense of your experiences)
- Humanistic (approaching you with respect, warmth and a belief in your capacity to grow)
- Strength‑based (focusing on your abilities, resources and what’s already working)
- Nervous system and trauma‑informed practices (working gently with awareness of how stress and trauma affect the body and mind)
- Polyvagal theory and practices (supporting your autonomic nervous system to find safety, connection and regulation)
- Embodiment‑based practices (using movement, posture, gesture and creative expression to connect with your inner experience)
- Parts‑work practices (exploring different inner “parts” or aspects of self with curiosity and compassion)
- Play theories and practices (using playfulness and imagination as pathways to insight and healing)
- Human development understandings (drawing on knowledge of how people grow and change across the lifespan)