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

Unexpressed emotional or somatic trauma (anger, frustration and depression, grief loss, loneliness, confusion, grief) should be released

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

The Right-Brain—Home of the Expressive Self

• Neuroscience advances
• Trauma: Integrating emotional and rational brain processes
• The Expressive Therapy edge to heal trauma
• Engage your sensory self: touch. Visual, hearing, and smell
• The therapeutic alliance—creating a foundation of empathetic compassion, safety, and trust

Assessing andamp; Healing Trauma Drawing Art Processes

• Tapping into right brain processes—the drawing speaks louder than words
• Overcome resistance and create safety and trust
• Take inspiration from the resilience and humor of humor
• Assessment of individual and family resilience and strengths towards treatment planning and intervention

Healing Trauma Through Song Movement, & Dance

• Mindfulness can help you get your mind in order-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”
• Create a sense you are self-sufficient-Through interpersonal connections with others, you can add value to your life “heard”

Lease & Healing Traumatic Experience with Clay

• Promot self-worth and identity
• Create a sense of safety, boundaries & containment
• Mindful attention and multitasking are possible when you cultivate mindfulness.-Sensory awareness
• Unexpressed emotional or somatic trauma (anger, frustration and depression, grief loss, loneliness, confusion, grief) should be released

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Therapeutic Storytelling To Reframe the Trauma Narrative

• Being a better person-Trust in the tapping of the “Storyteller Within”
• Raw writing can help you release unresolved trauma
• Use the Child Interview to create therapeutic stories for your children and teens
• Storytelling Grid (building blocks to create therapeutic stories)
• Learn self-improvement skills-Regulation, resilience, and reframe trauma stories

Nature as Co-Overcoming Therapy – Therapist Trauma

• Use nature’s healing metaphors to create healing metaphors
• Discover simple ways to bring nature into your therapy room
• Transforming trauma into success “stepping stones to resiliency”
• You can build your self-Nature’s healing power can be used to heal trauma and regenerate it-Rituals of healing that are based on the Bible
• Cultivating mindfulness in nature—plan a nature therapy field trip

Ethical and clinical considerations

• The ethics of expressive therapy interventions
• Informed consent
• Countertransfers
• Borders and touch issues
• To help clients integrate therapy work into their daily lives, create client action plans-life experiences

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