My Blog
Welcome to our counselling blog supporting people in Camden and also across Australia. Here you’ll find articles, tips and insights on mental health, emotional wellbeing, high sensitivty, grief, stress and more.
ARTIST NOTES: Retreat
Retreat The word retreat has mostly two meanings. An act of leaving or backing away especially from something dangerous, difficult or disagreeable. A place of privacy or safety I wished to create a photograph and story that would embody both, as sometimes we need to...
Who is The Humble Hunter?
Who is The Humble Hunter? The Humble Hunter is the name of my business for a few reasons. A few years ago I would walk around my farm searching for interesting items of nature to photograph. As the seasons changed I would see lots of amazing things. I photographed...
ARTIST NOTES: Crush
An impossible concept? The concept for this photograph is one I had for a while, or shall I say I had the story in my creative journal for quite a while. I wanted to have a photographic story that would allow people who had been absolutely crushed emotionally to feel...
Life as an Empath
What is an Empath? Energy is my first language We’re in lockdown here in Sydney, I thought it was time to start blogging regularly. I thought if I’m going to do this I should be open and authentic. So here is a big post for you, brace yourselves, I may (but hopefully...
ARTIST NOTES: Serotonin
Serotonin is something we all have Nature Photography Serotonin was a concept I wanted to create for some time. I had the loose idea in my creative journal and kept coming back to it and refined the idea into a concept that could become a photograph for The Humble...
ARTIST NOTES: Empower
Have you ever heard of a black Dahlia? So I had a super beautiful and rare black Dahlia, yes a black Dahlia in my hands. I never knew black Dahlia’s existed. Nature photography gives me the opportunity to learn so much. She was oh so beautiful and I knew I could find...
What is Intuitive Art?
What is Intuitive Art? Intuitive Art has been defined as artwork that has been created by the artist looking within and following their intuition throughout the creative process. Created freely from the heart with less consideration to the brain, formal techniques or...
Emotional Wellness
The many aspects of wellness Mental Health Awareness If there is one thing the world needs right now it is love and kindness. That sounds like such a cliché but when you break things down to the smaller components and place them in front of our big and small issues,...
What is colour psychology?
What is Colour Psychology and how does it work? Colour psychology centres around the fascinating ability colour has to speak to us on a conscious and also subconscious level. Colour can instinctively conjure an emotional response as light receptors in the human eye...
Karen Ashcroft. Counsellor Camden.
Karen Ashcroft B.Couns is a Registered Level 2 Counsellor based in Camden NSW.
Serving areas of Camden, Cobbitty, Narellan, The Oaks, Silverdale, Picton, Oran Park, Menangle, Spring Farm, and Harrington Park.
Telehealth appointments available to clients located anywhere in Australia. Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart, Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Darwin.