Supporting Educators. Strengthening Teams. Nurturing Children's Wellbeing.
Experiential professional development and therapeutic-informed learning for early childhood educators, Centre Directors and organisations.
What does Amdora Therapies offer?
Kindy Uplift Professional Development Program
A recognised Kindy Uplift professional development program, Developing Emotional Awareness Through Artistic Expression provides trauma-informed, art-based training for early childhood educators. Through hands-on learning experiences, educators develop practical strategies to understand emotions, respond to behaviours, and support children's emotional wellbeing, helping every child feel seen, heard, and understood.
Psychomotor PBSP
Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP), also known as Psychomotor, is a body-based, emotionally focused psychotherapy approach available in Gympie, Queensland.
Through guided therapeutic experiences, individuals can explore emotional patterns, address unmet emotional needs, and develop greater self-awareness, supporting personal growth and emotional well-being.
The Person Behind the Practice
For over 20 years, Leigh Kennedy has been helping people reconnect — with themselves, with others, and with the joy of learning.
Trained in artistic therapies and PBSP Psychomotor practice, Leigh brings warmth, creativity and trauma-informed care to every session.
This is not art for art's sake — it is art as expression. Guided processes using clay, watercolour, sandtray and crayons place emotional regulation at the centre, allowing emotional awareness and literacy to expand naturally and without effort.
Our children are our future. The adults who surround them — educators, parents, carers — shape everything. This work exists to support those adults with the tools, confidence and emotional awareness to make a lasting difference.
What Educators Are Saying
This program was an amazing experience — not only to learn about how we could support children's emotional regulation using artistic expression, but to build our own capacity to understand our own emotions as part of this relationship. Our presenter Leigh opened up my eyes to the power of therapy through art. My team and I were very comfortable with her methods and felt able to express our own emotions through the tools used within the course. It's great to have another avenue of communicating with children who otherwise are unable to express how they feel. A really interesting course — I highly recommend."
— Kindy Director, Queensland