Melanie is a registered Creative Arts Therapist providing one to one therapy and has been facilitating art making and creative workshops with community for over 15 years. Melanie currently works in her private practice Ever Tender and is a supervisor and sessional academic at The MIECAT Institute.

Melanie's practice Ever Tender is an ongoing communal project using creativity, somatic awareness and therapeutic inquiry into the phenomenon of tenderness.

Encompassing both individual and community experiences, Ever Tender invites us all to consider our own tenderness and how making contact and embracing that which is tender in us, and in others, can promote connection and wellbeing.

Notable collaborations for Melanie’s ‘Creative Literacy’ programs include;
Melbourne Writers Festival
Heidi Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Brisbane
Wollongong Writers Festival
Writers SA
MIDSUMMA
The Famous Spiegletent
City of Yarra FreeZa
State Library of Victoria