Mel Marks

Mel (she/her) is a registered Art Therapist and Counsellor who is passionate about helping people improve their health and wellbeing through expressive and creative modalities. Mel has both an eclectic and diverse background of experience spanning 25 years working in the public, private and not-for-profits sectors, and as spent the past 15 years working exclusively in the field of eating disorders.

Mel’s practices from an integrated framework including cognitive, humanistic, psychodynamic and expressive theories. She has experience working in both inpatient and outpatient eating disorder settings and is trained in supportive meal therapy (SMT). Mel is happy to work with all eating disorder presentations in adolescents and adults.

As Mel is both an experienced counsellor and art therapist, individuals can see Mel in either an art therapy and/or counselling context. Both can be interchangeable at client request. Mel has previously worked at Eating Disorders Queensland and is currently employed as an art therapist at Robina Private Hospital working across both eating disorder outpatient and inpatient programs, as well as the Binge Eating Disorder program.

Mel is registered with ANZACATA (Australian, New Zealand & Asian Creative Arts Therapy Association) and is a member of ANZAED (Australian New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders).