Expressive Art Therapy

Expressive Art Therapy Online Course

Instructor: Carmen Richardson, MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT

This online journey will take you into the experiential world and work of expressive arts. It will provide a foundation in expressive arts therapy from which to build upon. You will explore some of the main models of expressive therapies, identify the primary principles and premises that build a theory of expressive arts and learn how to invite your clients to an expressive experience with the arts. This course is a combination of both reading and experiential activities. You will be invited to move your body, paint, write, draw and use music to explore and express with the hopes of learning, in a sensory way, about the power of the arts for healing and transformation. To invite our clients to the expressive arts experience, we must know something about that experience in our own bodies.

This course sets the foundation for the more advanced course, coming soon titled: Transforming Trauma with Expressive Arts Therapy.

To introduce clinicians to the world of expressive arts therapy in general and intermodal expressive arts therapy in particular
To increase understanding of the concept of therapist as a witness in the expressive arts therapy world
To learn how to set up the space for expressive arts experience and how to invite clients to the experience
To understand a variety of ways to work with the art, once it has “arrived”
To explore how the expressive arts can be used by the therapist for self-care

Instructor, Carmen Richardson, is founder and director of Prairie Institute of Expressive Arts Therapy (PIEAT) in Calgary, Alberta, where she offers supervision and training to professionals and community agencies across the prairies. Richardson is a Certified Trauma Consultant and Certified Trainer with The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children. She is a Registered Clinical Social Worker, Registered Canadian Art Therapist, and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist. Richardson brings over 20 years experience to her private practice working with a range of issues with both adults and children/teens. She has specialized in the assessment and treatment of sexual abuse of children and teens offering individual, family and group therapy. Richardson is also one of TLC’s rotating guest bloggers

Cost of taking this course online is $100. Upon successful completion of assignments tests and evaluation, a certificate of completion can be downloaded. CEs are not included in the price of this course but can be purchased in the TLC Online Bookstore. If you have questions about CEUs email [email protected].

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