OUR FOCUS/
BOUTIQUE
Concrete Olive takes a boutique approach - we focus our energy on the unique situations or needs that can arise and impact professional creatives and their work.
With the aim of strengthening creatives to sustain both their professional direction and their wellbeing. We provide a place for grounding, no matter the situation. Because here, the view and the direction can look different, and doable.
Created by a wellbeing professional with an extensive background in design, Concrete Olive understands the realities of creative and building industries, of artists as professionals, and the crossover that happens between work and life. This is where the language, circumstances, successes, and the intertwining challenges of both are fully recognised and understood.
Our approach blends introspection, positive wellbeing support and practical strategies. Underpinned by a vast body of evidenced insights and recommendations from scientific research, integrated from multiple disciplines and practices of Positive Psychology. The aim is to support both the artistic practice and the business of creativity - during times of new growth or times of challenges.
We provide constructive conversations, strategies and tools that foster sustainable, effective creative work, business, and personal wellbeing. This is not traditional psychology, business coaching, or therapy.
RELATABLE
Concrete Olive understands the need to simply talk things out, to be heard, and during this… gain clarity. Conversations that integrate sustainable and practical ways for managing challenges, build on strengths, and keeping creative passion and purpose at the forefront… no matter the challenge.
It’s a one meeting at a time approach where people collect their thoughts, bounce ideas, gather information they may not have thought about, and jump back in at a later date if and when needed. One meeting at a time… just there when needed.
Creativity is more than a skill - it's a way of thinking, problem-solving… and of being. It sits at the heart of how creative people approach every aspect of their life.
Created by a creative, for the creatives.
BREATHE ENERGY
Our confidential consultations are designed to open clarity and breathe energy back into progressing forward, without judgement, and with our full support.
OUR FOCUS IS YOUR FOCUS
ABOUT MICHELLE/
Michelle Rose / Positive Psychology Practitioner
BPsychSc, GradCertPosPsych, GradDipPosPsych CQU
Concrete Olive was founded by Michelle, whose career spans professional design practice and the study of human behaviour. She brings together extensive experience in the design industry with qualifications in psychology and positive psychology, offering a rare perspective on the challenges creative professionals face.
Michelle’s design career revealed the unique pressures of creative work - how even the most capable professionals can be tested by shifting demands, external pressures, and complex challenges. What was often missing was clear, constructive support: someone to help cut through competing opinions, bring clarity, and have conversations that go beyond surface-level advice. Concrete Olive was established to provide exactly this kind of space.
Michelle blends a long career in design with qualifications in psychology and positive psychology. This research-aware foundation informs practical, action-focused support: quick strategies for immediate demands, tools for managing self-doubt and stalled work, and grounded perspective during complex client or contract issues. It’s support for how creatives work and what they face - not clinical treatment, but practical, evidence-informed help.
Her focus is to strengthen the integrity and stamina of creative professionals, share informed approaches that enhance practice, and provide support in navigating the challenges that shape both professional and personal success.
For the creatives, “Maintaining creativity, passion, workflow, life balance, and confidence while staying abreast of change within the creative industries, takes a lot of self-knowledge, resilience, and stamina.
Concrete Olive is the space I once wished I had access to in my career. For years I’ve supported creatives informally - artists, hairdressers, designers, planners - it was their feedback, gratitude, and recognition of why this space is needed that fuelled my drive to make Concrete Olive a reality - specifically for the powerhouses who quietly undertake enormous challenges with little recognition: the creatives.”
- Michelle -