HEARTH Therapy Studios
HEARTH Studios is located on the southern end of the Mornington Peninsula, a coastal region south of Melbourne shaped by bay, ocean, bushland, dunes and changing light.
The Mornington Peninsula holds a unique meeting of coastal and inland landscapes, with Port Phillip Bay on one side and the wilder ocean beaches of Bass Strait on the other. At HEARTH, this sense of place can become part of the therapeutic experience, supporting connection, grounding, imagination and a more organic way of beginning.
HEARTH Therapy studio space
HEARTH Studios offers a calm, private, and creative therapy space, quietly set back from Sixteenth Beach in Rye, where the sound of the waves is often heard in the distance. This calm, natural environment offers a gentle setting for art therapy, with sea, land, weather, texture and organic materials providing quiet inspiration for creative expression and reflection.
The studio includes art materials, sensory resources and quiet spaces for talking, making, reflecting or simply taking time to begin. Sessions may be active and expressive, gentle and reflective, playful, symbolic, sensory, verbal or quiet.
The space is designed to support emotional safety, choice and curiosity, allowing each person to engage with therapy in their own way.
The HEARTH approach
HEARTH Studios is grounded in emotional safety, warmth, relationship and creative expression.
Support is relational, trauma-responsive, inclusive and carefully paced. Rather than expecting each person to fit a fixed model, HEARTH begins with the person, their story, their needs, their ways of communicating, and the environments that shape daily life.
Across therapy, education and supervision, the focus is on creating space to express, reflect, understand, connect and move forward in a way that feels meaningful.
What HEARTH Studios offers
Hearth brings together creative arts psychotherapy, EMDR therapy, educational support and supervision.
Studio-based therapy is available for children, young people and families.
Educational support includes learning, engagement and inclusion work with schools, teachers and students.
Online supervision offers professionals a reflective space to explore complexity, ethics, creativity, sustainability and practice.
You can find out more through the dedicated pages for Art Psychotherapy, EMDR, Learning, Engagement and Inclusion, and Supervision.
The Heart of HEARTH Studios
HEARTH Studios is led by Sam Gummer, an art psychotherapist, EMDR practitioner, specialist teacher, clinical supervisor, artist and photographer. She is committed to providing early intervention, creative therapies and meaningful support to people of all cultures, backgrounds and ages.
Her approach is relational, symbolic, attachment-focused, creative and client-led, with careful attention to each person’s communication, capacity, context and lived experience.
