Janet Courtney – Expressive Therapies – Healing Trauma Through Play, Art, Movement & Storytelling

Janet Courtney – Expressive Therapies – Healing Trauma Through Play, Art, Movement & StorytellingThe Right-Brain—Home of the Expressive SelfAdvances in neuroscienceIntegrating rational and emotional brain processes in traumaThe Expressive Therapy edge to heal traumaEngage the sensory self: touch, visual, listening, smellThe therapeutic alliance—creating a foundation of empathetic compassion, safety, and trustAssessing & Healing Trauma through Drawing Art ProcessesTapping into right brain processes—the drawing speaks louder than wordsOvercome resistance and build safety and trustDraw upon the resiliency of humorAssessment individual and of family resiliency and strengths toward treatment planning and interventionGet Janet Courtney – Expressive Therapies – Healing Trauma Through Play Art Movement & Storytelling downloadHealing Trauma through Song, Movement, & DancePromote mind-body awareness and overcome resistanceCultivate interpersonal connections and a sense of safety & trustRelease trauma, cultivate mind-body awareness through a sense of a “felt-self”Build a sense of self-worth through interpersonal connection with others by being “heard”Releasing & Healing Traumatic Experience through ClayPromote a sense of identity and self- worthCreate a sense of safety, boundaries & containmentCultivate mindful attention and multi-sensory awarenessRelease unexpressed emotional and somatic trauma (anger, frustration, depression, grief, loss, loneliness, confusion)Therapeutic Storytelling to Reframe the Trauma NarrativeGrowing self-confidence through tapping the “Storyteller Within”Release unexpressed trauma through raw writingCreate therapeutic stories for children and adolescents through the Child InterviewStorytelling Grid ~ (building blocks of creating therapeutic stories):Build skills of self-regulation, resiliency, and reframe the trauma storyNature as Co-therapist in Overcoming TraumaCreate healing metaphors from natureLearn simple ways to bridge nature into the therapy roomOvercoming trauma through “stepping stones to resiliency”Build self-regeneration and heal trauma through nature-based rituals of healingCultivating mindfulness in nature—plan a nature therapy field tripEthical and Clinical ConsiderationsEthics of expressive therapy interventionsInformed consentCountertransferencesIssues related to touch and boundariesCreate client action plans to bridge therapy work into daily-life experiencesGet Janet Courtney – Expressive Therapies – Healing Trauma Through Play Art Movement & Storytelling download