Attend in-person at the Creative Art Therapy Studio in Kingston, NY or attend virtually over Zoom.

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$1,197

Includes 36 hours of training & continuing education credits.

COUNSELORS & MFT

Expressive Therapies Summit has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7486. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Expressive Therapies Summit is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

✢ California Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Educational Psychologists and Professional Counselors- As of July 1, 2017, the State of California /Board of Behavioral Sciences [BBS] amended its regulations for continuing education providers to include National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as a "board-recognized approval agency." If you are licensed as a marriage and family therapist, social worker, educational psychologist or professional clinical counselor in California, NBCC Approved Continuing Education Providers are recognized by the BBS to fulfill continuing education requirements. As of July 1, 2017, required CE hours can be accumulated entirely through self-study and distance learning. 

ART THERAPISTS

✢ According to the Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB), continuing education credits in art therapy and/or mental health earned through this event can be applied toward the continuing education requirement for maintaining the ATR-BC. It is the responsibility of the attendee to determine if a particular session fits within the ATCB content areas.ELIGIBLE CONTENT AREAS1. Psychological and Psychotherapeutic Theories and Practice 2. Art Therapy Assessment   3. Art Therapy Theory and Practice 4. Client Populations and Multicultural Competence 5. Art Therapy and Media   6. Professional Issues   7. Ethics For further information, click here.

NEW YORK STATE

SOCIAL WORKERS

Expressive Therapies Summit, SW CPE #0730 has received approval from the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work to offer continuing education to licensed social workers. The Department may subsequently notify the provider that a particular course or courses is/are not acceptable.   

Instruction provided is to assist social workers in working with other professions; it does not authorize the social worker to engage in the practice of any other profession, except as allowed by the Education Law.  

The following states will accept NY State SW credits. (click the state for reference)

Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Utah.

The following states may accept NY State SW credits, please check with your board to confirm. 

Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. 

MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS

Expressive Therapies Summit is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-010262.

LICENSED CREATIVE ARTS THERAPISTS

Expressive Therapies Summit is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0105.

Art Therapists Please Note: These credits can only be applied to ATCB certification by those holding the LCAT credential.MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS

Expressive Therapies Summit isrecognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists#MFT-0110.

Learning Goals and Objectives

 1. To learn by experiencing Trauma-Informed Creative Arts methods, tools, and materials, including but not limited to the visual, spoken, written, and performing arts, as prerequisite to use in clinical practice.

2. To Facilitate Person-Centered communication, listening, and speaking skills.

3. To develop methods-in-action and build a repertoire of Trauma-Informed Creative Arts methods and document ongoing application.

4. To describe four creative art therapy-oriented interventions that parallel the “Neuro-sequential   Model”.

5. To identify four or more stages of development that can help clinician’s structure neuro-counseling interventions.

6. To name four benefits of using bilateral exercises in trauma-focused art therapy.

7. To learn four or more ways that the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) can be used to structure treatment of clients with a history of trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

8. To list three or more ways that creative art therapy engages neurobiological functions to combat the effects of Trauma/PTSD on the brain.

9. To identify five art therapy interventions that can address emotional, cognitive, and relational needs of clients who have experienced trauma or are in a PTSD state.

10. To understand how brain-based research reinforces the use of creative art interventions for trauma.

11. To facilitate clinical interventions, including trauma-sensitive art therapy directives, to debrief and re-frame, that can be immediately implemented into therapy practice to help children, families, couples, and adults regulate their emotions and behaviors.

12. To understand ethical implications and clinical challenges of using the creative arts therapy in clinical practice in treating trauma/PTSD.

13. To learn strategies to help prevent Second-Hand Trauma, Vicarious Trauma, and Compassion Fatigue to prevent clinician burnout.

14. To learn how to determine their client’s “Window of Time, Tolerance, and Reconsolidation”, and match creative arts methods to client’s readiness for and level of clinical support appropriate.

15. To utilize Trauma-Informed Creative Art Therapy in assessment, diagnosis, and clinical treatment.

16.  To utilize Trauma-Informed Creative Art Therapy modalities in tandem for in depth exploration and “Creative Connection”.

17. To design a Treatment Plan using creative arts for one or more clients.

18. To learn how to introduce the creative arts into clinical practice for treatment, including with “resistant” clients, challenging children, and families.

19. To understand the neurobiological implications to tailor creative art therapy with modification(s) for clients with dual diagnosis and for clients who are differently enabled.

20. To learn, through case study, how to leverage the efficacy of the creative arts through interfacing with Sandplay Therapy.

21. To learn methods for introducing and processing “Mask as Avatar” for people of different ages, including children, teens, and adults, elders.

22. To identify, examine, and address the impact of Collective, Cultural, and Intergenerational Trauma through the creative arts.

23. To learn how to debrief clients and help them find the meaning and healing messages, and determine possible next steps, through their creative expression(s).

24. To learn to implement Adverse Childhood Experiences and Mitigators Inventories in the context of designing intervention(s) with creative art interventions.

25. To design mitigation strategies using the creative art therapy continuum that addresses client Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES).

26. To learn complex developmental trauma theory including type 1 & 2 traumas.

27. To learn identify and design creative art therapy interventions for complex and developmental trauma and which creative art modalities best serve as mitigators for each.

28. To learn theoretical basis of the Creative Art Therapy Continuum and its use in Treatment Plan development.

29. To understand why and how to safely and effectively help the client “titrate” and “pedulate” client trauma, using body-based creative modalities.

30. To understand the role of the creative arts in countering Anticipatory Trauma and Ambiguous Loss.

Lucy Barbera, PhD, LCAT, is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, whose clinical work spans the medical, psychiatric, and special education settings, as a Creative Arts Therapist, Art Teacher, and Special Education Principal. For over twenty years, Dr. Barbera has served on the faculty of The Humanistic Multicultural Education Graduate Program, at SUNY, New Paltz, where she developed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Expressive Arts Therapy and Expressive Arts Leadership & Social Justice.  


Dr. Barbera is the Founder of the Trauma-Informed Creative Arts Therapy Certificate Program, at U Albany’s School of Social Welfare and an Associate Faculty Member of The Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy Program, founded by Dr. Natalie Rogers. Dr. Barbera lectures widely on the healing power of the arts, and curates exhibitions of patient/client expressive art, bringing awareness of the healing power of the arts to the community. Dr. Barbera maintains a private practice in Creative Arts Therapy, using a trauma-informed approach to the creative arts therapies.


Absolutely no prior art experience is necessary!

Join us in the way that works best for you. You may attend the Trauma-Informed Creative Arts Therapies Certificate Program in person at the Creative Arts Therapy Studio in Kingston, NY, virtually via Zoom, or through a hybrid option that allows participants to mix in-person and virtual attendance across the six-day (Saturdays) program.