Expressive Therapies – Janet Courtney
- Faculty:
- Janet Courtney
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 20 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Feb 14, 2017
Description
Expressive Therapies can:
- Enhance client’s ability to communicate effectively and authentically
- Overcome client resistance and build upon inner resiliency and strengths
- Reframe trauma experiences, increase self-regulation, and connect to a mind-body awareness
- Provide clients hands-on interactive experiences to heal from abuse, neglect, domestic violence and more
Janet Courtney, Ph.D., RPT-S, author and internationally recognized storyteller brings over 30 years of experience working with clients through expressive therapies, and will share a variety of expressive therapy interventions that you will be able to incorporate into clinical practice. Play, art & clay therapy, movement/dance/music, storytelling and nature are just some of the expressive therapies that Dr. Courtney will teach you in this recording, bringing you tools that can transform a client’s attachment related trauma, trauma associated with physical and emotional crises (abuse, neglect, domestic violence, natural disasters, among others). Expressive therapies can also provide clinicians a new and unique way to teach clients self-regulation skills to calm anxiety, focus attention, and overcome depressive states.
In this skill enriching training, you will learn therapeutic techniques that can empower your clients to:
- Build resiliency
- Reframe their trauma experiences
- Increase self-efficacy
- Self-regulate emotions
- Build a sense of control
- Connect to mind-body awareness and nature
- Enhance interpersonal relationships
- Take action beyond the therapy session to heal
Handouts
| Manual (7.04 MB) | 87 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Instructions for ASHA Credit – SELF STUDY ONLY – 02/14/17 (0.03 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| ASHA Participant Form – SELF STUDY ONLY – 02/14/17 (1.54 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Outline
The Right-Brain—Home of the Expressive Self
- Advances in neuroscience
- Integrating rational and emotional brain processes in trauma
- The Expressive Therapy edge to heal trauma
- Engage the sensory self: touch, visual, listening, smell
- The therapeutic alliance—creating a foundation of empathetic compassion, safety, and trust
Assessing & Healing Trauma through Drawing Art Processes
- Tapping into right brain processes—the drawing speaks louder than words
- Overcome resistance and build safety and trust
- Draw upon the resiliency of humor
- Assessment individual and of family resiliency and strengths toward treatment planning and intervention
Healing Trauma through Song, Movement, & Dance
- Promote mind-body awareness and overcome resistance
- Cultivate interpersonal connections and a sense of safety & trust
- Release 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 Clay
- Promote a sense of identity and self- worth
- Create a sense of safety, boundaries & containment
- Cultivate mindful attention and multi-sensory awareness
- Release unexpressed emotional and somatic trauma (anger, frustration, depression, grief, loss, loneliness, confusion)
Therapeutic Storytelling to Reframe the Trauma Narrative
- Growing self-confidence through tapping the “Storyteller Within”
- Release unexpressed trauma through raw writing
- Create therapeutic stories for children and adolescents through the Child Interview
- Storytelling Grid ~ (building blocks of creating therapeutic stories):
- Build skills of self-regulation, resiliency, and reframe the trauma story
Nature as Co-therapist in Overcoming Trauma
- Create healing metaphors from nature
- Learn simple ways to bridge nature into the therapy room
- Overcoming trauma through “stepping stones to resiliency”
- Build self-regeneration and heal trauma through nature-based rituals of healing
- Cultivating mindfulness in nature—plan a nature therapy field trip
Ethical and Clinical Considerations
- Ethics of expressive therapy interventions
- Informed consent
- Countertransferences
- Issues related to touch and boundaries
- Create client action plans to bridge therapy work into daily-life experiences
Faculty
Janet Courtney Related seminars and products: 5
Janet A. Courtney, PhD, LCSW, is founder of FirstPlay Therapy® and an adjunct professor at Barry University School of Social Work, Miami Shores, FL. She is a Registered Play Therapy- Supervisor, TEDx speaker, a StoryPlay® facilitator, and is past President of the Florida Association for Play Therapy. She has publications in the International Journal of Play Therapy, the American Journal of Art Therapy, and the Journal of Therapeutic Horticulture, and is a contributing author for the chapter, Touching Autism through Developmental Play Therapy, in the book, Play-based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Dr. Courtney also has a book coming out in Spring, 2017, Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy: An Ethical and Clinical Guide.
She offers a certification in FirstPlay Therapy® (including FirstPlay® Infant Massage Storytelling). She has been invited to speak nationally and internationally including the Cayman Islands, England, Ireland, Morocco, Russia and the Ukraine. She specializes in infant mental health, attachment, and trauma related issues. Dr. Courtney’s new form of Kinesthetic Storytelling® can be found in her children’s book, The Magic Rainbow. Visit her website at www.FirstPlayTherapy.com for more information.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Janet Courtney is founder of FirstPlay™ Therapy. She is in private practice and an adjunct professor at Barry University. Dr. Courtney receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Janet Courtney is a member of the National Association of Social Workers.
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