A Progressive Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing
HELLO!
Real Change
Begins Here
We bring a fresh, science-backed approach to individual therapy, mental health consulting and executive performance coaching.
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Whether you’re seeking freedom from struggle, a clearer path forward, or you're ready for your next chapter of growth - this is where change becomes possible and progress becomes real.
Whether you're seeking therapy for anxiety, burnout or trauma, relationship support, or high-performance coaching, we provide evidence-based, person-centred solutions that create real, lasting change.
Our work combines the latest advances in psychology and neuroscience to help individuals, leaders and teams move from struggle to strength - and from strength to significance.
SOLUTIONS
Carefully considered solutions for individuals, families, business leaders and teams.
PERSONAL & RELATIONSHIP WELLBEING
Explore therapy and support for individuals, couples and families navigating life’s challenges.
Retreats & Immersive Experiences
Discover creative escapes
and therapeutic resources to
reset, reconnect and restore →
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu -
Nobel Peace Prize winner (1984);
Anti-apartheid & human rights activist
ABOUT
Mental Health Care
That Defies Convention
We guide individuals and organisations toward a future of new possibilities, purpose and wellbeing, and support those ready to move beyond coping and into transformation.
Rykie Smith is the founder of The Art of Wellbeing. She works with those who are ready for something to shift - and who want more than surface-level solutions.
A registered psychotherapist, she skillfully combines the rigour of psychology, the insights of neuroscience, and the power of expressive therapies to transform how we approach mental health, performance and leadership.
With deep experience and a passion for challenging outdated models, Rykie offers support that’s strategic yet warm, science-informed, yet deeply human.
She also partners with organistaions to
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Enhance psychological safety
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Reduce workplace stress
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Build strong, emotionally intelligent leadership
Rykie supports people struggling with
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Anxiety, depression, overwhelm or burnout
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Trauma, PTSD or emotional shutdown
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Creative blocks or self-doubt
Some clients come to feel better.
Others come to grow.
Many arrive after trying everything else - and needing a different way forward.
Whether in one-on-one therapy, couples work, group settings or consulting, she helps clients move toward hope, clarity and meaningful, lasting change.
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