Welcome to the website of Karen Curran ~ The Heart of Us ...

Hi - I am Karen. I am an Artist/Illustrator/Designer, Art Therapist (using creative therapies including Sandplay and Shamanic Inner Journeying), Storyteller (writer) and Bush Flower Essences Practitioner, based in the Blue Mountains ~ Australia.

Here at The Heart of Us, I use gentle creative therapies to help women who are seeking to reconnect or heal within, to discover their purpose or to change the effects of grief and loss. I also love to hold nourishing and creative safe spaces online for women to be creative and gain inner insight.
The Heart of Us is a place where you can find solace, express yourself, and embark on a journey of healing and self discovery - there are self-paced courses, meditations, online creative circles, inspirational posters, journals and more.

Or we can work together to explore the transformative power of art and storytelling in your healing process and have some fun along the way.

I have a special interest in healing of the soul - and the inner child.

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Navigating life through heart & soul

Various creative therapies

When we embark on a soul healing journey, the journey can be surprising. I help women navigate this unknown territory - recognise and address ancestral wounds and habits, to enable a feeling of renewal and an ability to go forward in a happier way. Shining the light within their soul.

I have a passion for helping clients discover the best within themselves. Through the use of gentle and expressive therapies including Art Therapy, Sandplay Therapy, Mindfulness, Inner Journeying and more, I help women and children change limiting beliefs that may be holding them back. I believe that everyone can find meaning, joy, wonder, inner healing, and purpose in their life.

Supporting parent and child connections

I work with children to find the underlying grief or worry

By booking into parent and child connections, you discover more about each other and build - or renew - a beautiful, gentle connection. When life just happens, and there is disruption, or new additions, or change of family or address, children react or withdraw. These connection sessions are to help restore or build a positive connection for you and your child.

I work with children age approximately 7 to 12 years if the fit is right. You may notice that your normally happy and motivated child has suddenly changed, or is sad or fearful. This could be something that may have affected them at school, or could be a recent grief. And they may become stuck. By using gentle processes such as Sandplay and Art, I help to discover what the underlying problem is. Then help the child to find a way through. Often this requires the support of the parent/guardian to follow up a plan or processes at home. A series of 3 sessions minimum is generally helpful in cases like these.

Services & Offerings

A healing space for Women to share their story of grief and begin their healing journey. Or to look at inherited ancestral generational trauma, or unhelpful self beliefs.
Limited individual sessions online or studio.

Transform the effects of grief or loss