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-informed foundation supports practical, action-focused conversations: 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 navigating change in the creative industries requires enormous 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 -
Professional Affiliations /
Affiliate Member:
Australian Psychological Society (APS)
Member:
International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA)
OUR FOCUS/
BOUTIQUE
Concrete Olive takes a boutique approach, focusing on the unique situations that can arise for professional creatives and the impact they can have on both work and wellbeing.
With the aim of strengthening creatives so they can sustain both their professional direction and their wellbeing - we provide a place for grounding. Because here, the view - and the way forward - can begin to look different, and more doable.
Concrete Olive was created by a wellbeing professional with an extensive background in design. It understands the realities of creative and building industries, the professional lives of artists and designers, and the way work and life often intersect. This is where the language, circumstances, successes, and challenges are recognised and understood.
Our approach blends introspection, positive wellbeing support and practical strategies. It is informed by insights drawn from research, and the applied disciplines 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 explore sustainable and practical ways to manage challenges, build on strengths, and keep creative passion and purpose at the forefront.
It’s a one meeting at a time approach - to collect your thoughts, bounce ideas, gather perspective, and return whenever you need.
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 creatives.
BREATHE ENERGY
Our confidential consultations are designed to bring clarity and breathe energy back into moving forward, without judgement, and with our full support.