Wanna Art About It? provides creative arts therapy for individuals and groups, hosts neurodivergent peer groups for adults with ADHD and autism, and facilitates building emotional culture and creative capacity within organisations.
Jessie Upton AThR, is a proudly neurodivergent artist, systems and service designer, facilitator, and multimodal creative arts therapist. They are a professional member of ANZACATA, the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association. They hold a Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practice with a specialisation in Community Arts & Health, awarded by the MIECAT Institute—the Melbourne Institute of Creative and Experiential Art Therapies.
As a Creative Arts Therapist, they work multimodally. This means they value all forms of expression/creating as equal. They work across visual, digital, physical and musical artforms. As a practitioner, they place lived experience at the center. They are trauma-informed, LGBTIAQ+ friendly and neurodiversity affirming.
