Janet Courtney – Expressive Therapies

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Janet Courtney – Expressive Therapies

The Right-Brain—Home of the Expressive Self

• Advances in neuroscience
• In trauma, integrating rational and emotional brain processes
• The Expressive Therapy edge to heal trauma
• Engage the senses: touch, vision, listening, and 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 to increase safety and trust
• Take inspiration from the resilience and humor of humor
• Assessment of the individual and family’s resilience and strengths in treatment planning and intervention

Healing Trauma through Song, Movement, & Dance

• Promote mind-Increase your body awareness to overcome resistance
• Cultivate interpersonal connections and a sense of safety & trust
• Let go of trauma and cultivate your mind-Body awareness through a sense a “felt-self”
• Develop a sense of self-Through interpersonal connections with others, you can add value to your life “heard”

Releasing & Healing Traumatic Experience through Clay

• Promot self-worth and identity
• Create a sense of safety, boundaries & containment
• Multitasking and mindful attention are two of the best things you can do.-Sensory awareness
• Unexpressed emotional or somatic trauma (anger, frustration and depression, grief loss, loneliness, confusion, grief) should be released

Therapeutic Storytelling to Reframe the Trauma Story

• Self-development-Trust in the tapping of the “Storyteller Within”
• Unexpressed trauma can be released through raw writing
• Through the Child Interview, create stories that are therapeutic for children and teenagers
• Storytelling Grid (building blocks to create therapeutic stories)
• Learn self-development skills-Regulation, resilience, and reframe trauma stories

Nature as Co-Therapist in Overcoming Trauma

• Nature can be used to help you create healing metaphors
• Discover simple ways to bring nature into your therapy room
• Through trauma, you can overcome it “stepping stones to resiliency”
• Self-empowerment-Nature can help you heal and regenerate traumas-Based rituals for healing
• Cultivating mindfulness in nature—plan a nature therapy field trip

Ethical and Medical Considerations

• The ethics of expressive therapy interventions
• Informed consent
• Countertransfers
• Problems related to touch & boundaries
• For clients who want to integrate therapy work into their daily lives.-life experiences

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Expressive Therapies can:

• Enhance client’s ability to communicate effectively and authentically
• Surmount client resistance and capitalize on your inner resilience and strengths
• Reframe trauma experiences, increase self-Connect to a Mind and regulate-Awareness of your body
• Clients can be reached by you-Interactive experiences for healing from domestic violence, neglect, abuse and other forms of abuse

Janet CourtneyRPT, Ph.D.-S is an internationally recognized storyteller and author. She has over 30 years experience in working with clients using expressive therapies. You will learn a range of expressive therapy interventions you can incorporate into your 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 The use of therapies may also offer clinicians an alternative way to help clients.-Regulating skills to calm anxiety, focus on the task at hand, and overcome depression.

You will be able to teach your clients therapeutic techniques.

• Building resilience
• Reframe their trauma stories
• Self-improvement-efficacy
• Self-regulate emotions
• Create a sense that you have control
• Connect to your mind-Awareness of the body and nature
• Improve interpersonal relationships
• You can heal yourself by taking action beyond the therapy session