Expressive Therapy Modalities

A Three Stage Approach to Incorporating Expressive and Creative Therapies: Level II- Certificate Program in Advanced Trauma Treatment (required core)
In this core training for the Level II Certificate Program, participants will learn a three stage treatment approach utilizing Expressive Therapies to facilitate healing for trauma survivors. Read More>

Countertransference & Therapeutic Presence: The Mirror Neuron Dance
In this seminar participants will explore the core theories and methods fundamental to movement psychotherapy. Read more>

Internal Family Systems: Discovering the Movement Expression of Parts
In this seminar we will explore how, as therapists, we stay in Self; how to recognize the distinctive movement behaviors of various parts; and how to use movement in the process of understanding and integrating parts into Self. Read more>

Expressive Therapy Intensive: Using Psychodrama and Other Creative Modalities to Process Counter-transference When Working with Traumatized Clients 
This intensive experiential workshop series will help clinicians who have trained and worked in the field of trauma tap into their own triggers and vulnerabilities while attuning to their physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs. Read More>

Learning How to Use Ericksonian Hypnosis for Grounding, Containing and Self-Soothing –
Level II: Parts 1 and 2
Clinicians who work with trauma survivors often find it difficult to “move forward” with therapeutic interventions as these clients are in constant “fight/flight,” easily triggered, emotionally over-aroused, and need constant re-grounding. Read More>

Making Them Whole Through the Sum of Their Parts: Decreasing Resistance and Promoting Healing Through Inner Child and Parts Work – Level II
In this two day intensive, we will learn how to creatively and experientially go beyond a singular view of the self, and embrace, instead, the notion of the many-faceted self.  Read More>

Moving in Self: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Therapeutic Presence
Clinicians sometimes overlook the significance of their physical presence and the non-verbal dialogue as a therapeutic tool and intervention.  In this three-day intensive we will explore how to creatively and experimentally use our body/movement presence as a change agent by exploring and integrating four powerful psychotherapeutic approaches.  Read More>

Picture This: Using Flashcard Therapy with Trauma Survivors to Enhance Problem Solving and Distress Tolerance Skills
This unique 3 hour workshop will focus on how flashcards can be added to more traditional therapy paradigms as an interactive and effective technique to help trauma survivors explore and visualize life skills and shore up skill base deficits.  Read More>

Relationship and Attachment: Exploring the Nonverbal Dialogue
In this seminar, participants will  improvise creative, effective interventions to enhance relationship and repair attachment using kinesthetic empathy, attunement, symbolic movement, reciprocity, mirroring, and energy exchange. Read more>

The Social Atom: Using Psychodrama to Explore Interpersonal Relationships
The Social Atom is a relational map, which can either be done on paper in art form or in action, where a person is asked to create a “living” diagram of persons to whom she or he has important relationships.
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Trauma and Counter-Transference: Through the Lens of Sand Therapy
The focus of this training is on the therapist’s process when working with traumatized clients, and how the use of sand therapy can help access and process those experiences.  Read More>

Trauma Healing Through Narrative Sand Therapy – Level II
Narrative Sand Therapy helps clients represent emotional trauma and share their journey towards healing and renewal. In this workshop, participants will learn how narrative empowers clients to externalize and give voice to their experiences.Read More>

Using Dance/Movement to Enhance Attachment and Healthy Embodiment in Trauma Survivors – Level II
The tools of dance/movement therapy can be especially useful when working with trauma survivors because they unify the body AND creativity as healing resources when words are not enough. Read More>

Using Psychodramatic Techniques to Work with Sexually Abused Children and Adolescents
Psychodrama is a form of psychotherapy that utilizes dramatic action to create a safe, supportive setting in which to practice new and more effective roles and behaviors. Read More>

Using Visualization, Focusing, and Guided Imagery for the Management of Anxiety, Depression and Flashbacks – Level II
Oftentimes, clinicians and clients can feel “stuck” in their work together. Frustration ensues when material feels inaccessible or too frightening for clients to talk about in treatment. Read More>

Working With Dreams: Tapping Into an Inner Wisdom
In this workshop, clinicians will become aware of one of the most intimate conversations we can have with ourselves – Dream Work. They will discover that dream exploration is a powerful technique to use in their work. Read More>