InsideArts Arts Psychotherapy and Clinical Supervision

InsideArts Arts Psychotherapy and Clinical Supervision InsideArts provides Arts Psychotherapy and clinical supervision for art therapists, counsellors, social workers and others requiring mentoring and support.

Arts Psychotherapist Glenda Needs

Glenda Needs (AThR, GradDipCAT, MDis., GradCertAppNeurosc., BADram, Cert IV Business Management, Cert IV TAE, Cert. IV Counselling and Psychotherapy, M.Cert. Professional Supervision) has been using the arts therapeutically for over 20 years. She has an extensive background in multimodal Arts Therapy, both with diverse client populations and in an educational rol

e. Glenda has an academic and practical background in art therapy, neuroscience, disability, counselling, clinical supervision, paediatric palliative care, eco-art-therapy, and drama for wellbeing. She has worked for many years in her own busy Art Psychotherapy practice, providing both private and organization funded consultations (Mental health services, Disability SA, Rehabilitation services and many others), and establishing programs including the Art Therapy program in WCH Paediatric Palliative Care. Glenda spent several years as the Head of Creative Therapies for IKON Institute of Australia, and now guest lectures at various SA universities, provides Clinical Supervision to many counsellors, social workers, and arts therapists both online and face to face, and maintains a small client case load through her private practice, InsideArts, Arts Psychotherapy and Clinical Supervision. She has also established Arts Therapies training for social workers in Mongolia to set up community programs responding to family violence. In her spare time, Glenda loves connecting with nature, cutting daffodils in her garden, and cooking up vast aromatic concoctions like lilly-pilly and passionfruit jam with her Grandchildren.

16/07/2026

We are seeing so many instances now where a diagnosis of Autism can also harm, not just individuals but wider society. We need to be much more discriminating in what a label might achieve or inhibit in a person.

Temple Grandin is a wonderful, lived experience advocate for rethinking the Autism diagnosis.

"Come to the edge," he said."We can't. We're afraid," they answered."Come to the edge," he said."We can't. We will fall....
11/07/2026

"Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't. We're afraid," they answered.
"Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't. We will fall."
"Come to the edge," he said.
And so they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.

(Often attributed to the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire)

It's a beautiful metaphor about growth, courage, and discovering capabilities you don't realize you have until you're forced to trust yourself.

Growing will almost always feel scary and uncomfortable. Sometimes we need others who love us and believe in us, to give us a little nudge.

This looks like some fabulous, affordable Professional Development.
25/05/2026

This looks like some fabulous, affordable Professional Development.

Live Webinar - 17th Jun 26: In this webinar, we explore how therapists get “pulled in” without realising it, and how subtle countertransference shapes clinical judgment, therapeutic presence, and decision-making across modalities. Drawing on ...

I've seen many people with chronic illness over the past 20 years, and in particular, those who experienced illness sinc...
22/05/2026

I've seen many people with chronic illness over the past 20 years, and in particular, those who experienced illness since childhood, (including me!), seem to have a stonger negativity bias than others. I think there is a genuine functional purpose in this. I can see now how hyper-vigilance for risk, heightened interoception and to some degree, what we might mistake for self-absorption is what has kept them alive has kept them functioning.

As modern society we have the capacity to focus much more of positive experience, seeing as we are no longer facing lions, starvation or frequent horrendous disease, but our bodies have been wired, for generations, to look for risk first and celebrate later. For some people it's a tougher job to fight that, and as a society perhaps we need more tolerance and understanding when people present with a negativity bias and see it as perhaps even MORE helpful for some people than a positivity bias.

For example, when I think about going to the theatre, I do worry about picking up viruses or bacterial infections, because for me, they are more likely to be life threatening events than for most others. My history also means I have a little suspicion of people up front (are they sneaking up with a teddy but plan on stabbing me with a needle?), so my system, looks for risk factors first and only THEN relaxes into attending to positive experience.

I think many people living with chronic illness, or having had a difficult history are not simply “negative.” Often, they are people whose nervous systems learned very early that survival depended on noticing risk quickly and accurately, and perhaps for them a negative bias continues to support them in someway.

Obviously we need reminding from time to time to redirect our attention but I usually find, both for myself, and for others, if I allow space for the negativity, the positivity finds it's way through in a way that doesn't diminish the incredibly resilient soul in front of me.

Let's stop making negativity negative 🤣🤣

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This story, about Mel Blanc, is basically true - he DID respond as Bugs Bunny where his own identity seemed unresponsive...
12/05/2026

This story, about Mel Blanc, is basically true - he DID respond as Bugs Bunny where his own identity seemed unresponsive.
This demonstrates how powerfully imagination, creativity and play intertwines with our identity, and how remarkable the brain is.
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Are you working in Palliative care?
05/05/2026

Are you working in Palliative care?

APHC27OPCC represents an important moment for our region; a chance to come together, listen, learn and lead collectively.

Fabulous Professional Development offering in Sydney.
23/04/2026

Fabulous Professional Development offering in Sydney.

Perhaps you could contribute to some important research?
17/04/2026

Perhaps you could contribute to some important research?

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