Meet our practitioners.
Papernook is passionate about supporting people to find creative ways for achieving wellness. We are a small team of professionally registered and qualified Arts Therapists, passionate about mental health and wellbeing.
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Jasmine Sernberg (née Wright)
Registered Arts Therapist, Facilitator and Owner MA Therapeutic Arts Practice, AThR (Professional Member No. 54416831) ANZACATA, BBus (Major Mktg&EMgmt), Cert III Creative Arts & Contemporary Craft As Papernook's founder, Jasmine is a registered Arts Therapy practitioner professionally trained in delivering interventions using MIECAT's Form of Inquiry. Jasmine is devoted to the health benefits of creative arts and has followed her passion of combining this with helping people achieve improved mental health and wellbeing.
Jasmine has a Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practice (Therapy) with MIECAT. This qualification is a benchmark for delivering therapy supports to clients under the NDIS scheme and current Professional Membership is held with ANZACATA. Jasmine completed her internship work placement with Help Enterprises, joining their multi-disciplinary Health & Wellbeing Services Team. During this time she developed and wrote ‘What Is My Shape’, an experiential book for teams in understanding self and a process for improving connection through shape. Jasmine also co-facilitated the Champions of Change Lived Experience Engagement Forums, funded by Queensland's Mental Health Commission. Forums were delivered using a therapeutic arts-based approach to hear the voices of people with lived experience from a range of backgrounds, each navigating their own mental illnesses, suicide and drug and alcohol addictions. Participants were supported to unpack their journey around what is needed by leaders and employers to create more mentally healthy workplaces and inform future practice. You can watch the full video here. Prior to stepping out into private practice, Jasmine was a strategic marketing and communications specialist working predominantly in the not-for-profit sector. Jasmine's experience included 6-years in the disability industry, with skills spanning generalist marketing, political media, events coordination, project management and partnership brokering.
Jasmine has always been driven by her value of 'living with purpose' and ambition to make a difference. Papernook is her proudest achievement. |
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Saskia Levy
Registered Arts Therapist (Contractor) MMH Art Therapy, AThR (Clinical Registrant No. 30545) PACFA, BFA Visual Arts, Dip COuns, BCI Drama Saskia is a professionally registered Arts Therapist and art and wellbeing practitioner, operating with a strengths oriented and trauma informed approach. As a part-time contractor at Papernook, Saskia is also a practising visual artist and maker based in Brisbane, and runs her own creative art and wellbeing workshops.
Saskia has experience working with adults, teenagers and children, and aims to provide support for people with diverse mental health experiences and disability, through individual art therapy sessions, and group art therapy. Her own personal experience as an artist, Arts Therapist and person who has experienced challenges with mental health, is that art and engaging in creative processes can impact us in positive and meaningful ways. It can also enhance our everyday experience of life and connection to others as we develop diverse skills including, flexible thinking, relaxation, mindfulness, self-reflection, how to generate hope, inspiration and motivation when we engage with the arts. |
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EDUCATION
- University of Queensland // Masters of Mental Health - Art Therapy
- Australian College of Applied Pscyhology // Diploma of Counselling
- Griffith University (Queensland College of Art) // Bachelor of Fine Art
- Queensland University of Technology // Bachelor of Creative Industries (Drama)
Chloe Gard
Registered Arts Therapist
MA Therapeutic Arts Practice, AThR (Professional Member No. 69523717) ANZACATA, BFA Photography
Registered Arts Therapist
MA Therapeutic Arts Practice, AThR (Professional Member No. 69523717) ANZACATA, BFA Photography
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Chloe is an Arts Therapy Masters graduate from MIECAT. She joined Papernook in 2023 to complete her placement, and now is a registered practising Therapist as part of our professional team. Chloe is a keen hobby artist and loves to explore various artistic disciplines, from ceramics to embroidery and painting.
Chloe worked as a Disability Support Worker for several years and understands the importance of adapting to service specific needs. This makes her comfortable to support a wide range of clients of diverse backgrounds. As someone who turns to art making instead of written journaling, Chloe’s own approach and lived experience fosters her belief that Arts Therapy can be used as a tool to diversify means of communicating, connecting and understanding. Chloe is a keen observer and approaches all client interactions with an open and curious mind. EDUCATION
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