Cecilia is passionate about supporting children, adults, families and educational communities in cultivating resilience, sensory and emotional safety, cognitive flexibility, emotional intelligence, creativity and holistic wellbeing.

With over 15 years of therapeutic experience, she has worked with individuals across the lifespan, including people with diverse abilities and complex diagnoses. Her early career in the arts—as a dance and drama teacher, choreographer, theatre director and festival production manager—continues to inform her dynamic, embodied and creative approach to therapy.

Cecilia King holds a Master in Counselling and a Graduate Diploma in Dance/Movement Therapy, and is a professional member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australasia (DTAA). She integrates Counselling, Dance/Movement Therapy, Trauma-Responsive Care, Neuroaffirmative Practices, Self Psychology, and Positive Behaviour Support into her practice. Cecilia is also a certified AutPlay® Therapy Provider and a Licensed Sensory Intelligence® Practitioner, offering specialised insight into the psychodynamic aspects of sensory processing, movement and play-based, neurodiversity-affirming interventions.

Working from a growth-focused perspective, Cecilia centres her work on strengths, relationships and lived experience—rather than pathology. She supports individuals, families and siblings through a collaborative, systemic approach that prioritises the wellbeing of the individual and also the entire family/support unit. Her work often extends to schools, childcare centres, allied health professionals and community organisations, helping to create consistent, wraparound support across all environments.

Pioneer of Positive Experience Support

Cecilia is the creator of Positive Experience Support—a practitioner-informed approach that moves beyond traditional behaviour management, focusing instead on the proactive creation of meaningful, safe and affirming experiences for children and their carers/supporting adults. Developed through her work with neurodivergent and trauma-impacted children, families and educational settings, the approach places connection, co-regulation and emotional safety at the heart of long-term wellbeing.

Drawing on creative arts therapy, principles of developmental movement integration, sensorimotor strategies, Positive Behaviour Support, trauma-informed care, and neuroaffirmative principles, Positive Experience Support offers a sensory-informed, growth-focused, strengths-based and relational approach tailored to both early learning and school environments.

Cecilia partners with schools and childcare centres to deliver professional development and training, equipping educators with practical tools and compassionate approaches to better understand the needs beneath behaviours. She also offers tailored programs for primary school students, drawing on expressive therapy to support self-expression and provide a safe, creative outlet for processing difficult feelings and experiences that may be hard to articulate. Through this dual approach, Cecilia helps cultivate connected, inclusive and emotionally safe learning communities.