Arts-Based Interventions for Clinical Practice

HYBRID: Online & In-Person in Oakland, CA

Are you a mental health clinician interested in learning how to ethically incorporate art-making into your clinical work as a non-art therapist? What may be difficult for our clients to express in words can become more accessible when they are given the opportunity to express themselves through a creative art form. Art making can serve as a bottom-up, somatic process that can help our clients communicate in a way that may feel safer for them. Although you will not become an Art Therapist after this training, you will be able to incorporate art making activities with your clients in individual or group settings that will help you build rapport and deepen the therapeutic process and relationship. In this training you will learn the history of art therapy and some of the psychology behind the art making process, be presented with case examples, and get the hands-on experience of learning a few therapeutic art-making directives and actually get to create the artworks yourself! If facilitated in person, all art materials will be provided by the facilitator. If virtual, participants will have to provide their own materials.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and describe the role of art-making as a theoretically grounded clinical intervention.

• State the difference between “art therapy” and using an “arts-based intervention”.

• Identify when certain art materials are appropriate for clients based on presenting issues.

• Identify arts-based treatment goals for clients based on the Expressive Therapies Continuum.

• Learn and experience 3-4 arts-based interventions appropriate for use with varied clinical populations.

Facilitated by Tonia Herrero, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, ATCS

Licensed & Board-Certified Art Therapist, Certified Art Therapy Supervisor and Owner of East Bay Art Therapy

Saturday, September 14th 12:00-3:00pm (PST)

Hybrid (In-person in Oakland, CA & Virtual options)

Cost: $150 per person

Student Rate: $125 per person

This training is for:

• LMFT, LPCC, LCSW, LEP, PPSC, LMHC, LPC and Psychologists (Associates/Pre-Licensed included)

• Other Creative Arts Therapists such a Drama, Music, Dance/Movement, and Expressive Arts Therapists

• Graduate Students currently enrolled in any Clinical Masters or Doctorate Program

• Psychiatrists, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, and Psych RN's

• School Counselors / Guidance Counselors

• Other Allied Mental Health Professionals

• Art Therapists looking to brush up on their skills

Please note, EBAT is not (yet) an approved CE provider.

To sign up, visit eastbayarttherapy.com/training and send us a message or email Tonia at Tonia@eastbayarttherapy.com