Nadia Campitelli
Nadia is passionate about connection and embraces it as a driving force in her life. Traces of her colourful footprints have been left behind on the unpaved road she’s been dancing down. Twelve years ago she began walking the healing path she stands firmly on today. Her heart leads the way.
She’s had the privilege of exploring a multitude of connection based practices in different corners of the earth; vipassanā, holotropic breath-work, yoga, osho active meditation, ecstatic dance, kirtan, ceremony, ritual, etc. Alongside this intrapersonal deep dive she also wrote a Master’s thesis about how meaningful relationships are conducive to safe and supportive environments and although her research was micro-cosmic, she gained insight into our disconnected aching planet.
Nadia is a survivor of physical and mental abuse, has arm wrestled with eating disorders and body dysmorphia, has been debilitated by depression and has learned to receive anxiety as a frequent guest. Amidst her healing journey she became an advocate for mental and physical well-being and has come to believe that disconnection lay at the core of dis-ease.
Nadia spent several years working in education, teaching Visual Art in Australia, England, Sweden and Canada. She adores young people and believes that her student’s have been her teacher as much as she has been theirs. Whilst teaching in Sweden she had the privilege of working with a few students whose mental health experiences nudged her toward her current path.
After 15 years of personal exploration into her own creative processes as well as the years coaching creative process as an art teacher —Nadia has time and time again found herself more fascinated with what arrives along the way rather than a predetermined outcome. Interestingly, during her eight years abroad she found herself echoing this mind-set in her approach to travel. This necessitated letting go and surrendering to uncertainty as a practice and at the very core of this approach, it has demanded her to practice deep trust. ‘Get out of your own way’ a decorated stop sign from her Byron Bay days comes to mind and resonates, reinforcing these ideas.
In life and in art, Nadia has found when an open-ness and presence is given full-heartedly to possibility and spontaneity — a spaciousness is then invited in and it often offers up to the surface something intrinsically truer. She is determined that glimpses into intuitive wisdom and truth are touched on by practicing connection. For Nadia, this has taken many different shapes and forms, from painting, dancing and chanting to cleaning toilets and beyond.
Nadia was astounded when she found Expressive Arts Therapy as she had been relentlessly seeking a modality that she could facilitate with full hearted confidence. She is committed to cultivating a safe and supportive space and is devoted to meeting you where you are at. Nadia understands her immense responsibility not only as a space-holder but also as a witness to your vulnerability. Nadia welcomes clients with diverse backgrounds. As a white cisgendered womban Nadia is committed to her own work in understanding and unraveling the systemic conditioning that undeniably lives inside of her.
