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Digital Seminar

Creative Arts Workshop for Clinicians: Easy-to-Implement Interventions for Kids, Teens, and Adults Facing Trauma, Grief, Depression, and More


Speaker:
Patricia Isis, PhD, LMHC-QS, ATR-BC, ATCS
Duration:
Approx 6 hrs
Language:
Presented in EN
Copyright:
Mar 06, 2025
Product Code:
POS150058
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar


Description

When words fail, art speaks

Creative therapies have the power to bypass the thinking brain, letting clients dive into their deeper emotions and access personal insights …

… making therapy feel more real and impactful.

And here’s the best part: you don’t have to be an artist.

Working through any awkward moments in artistic expression can actually help clients relax, loosen up, and connect with you on a more genuine level.

Watch Dr. Patricia Isis, international art therapy expert, author, and certified teacher of mindful self-compassion to experience the profound impact of integrating easily-accessible expressive interventions into your existing practice with clients of all ages who are traumatized, grief-stricken, depressed, highly anxious, or otherwise struggling with traditional talk therapy approaches.

Through Dr. Isis’ engaging instruction, experiential exercises, and case studies, you’ll learn:

  • Art-based assessment tools to quickly identify unarticulated thoughts and feelings
  • Strategies to dispel the fear of art and perfectionism in art – for both clinician and client
  • How to create an expressive arts therapy toolbox with easily accessible supplies
  • Creative strategies to foster engagement, connection, and self-empowerment
  • How to use creative therapies along with ACT, CBT, other mindfulness-based practices, and more
  • Evidence-based clinical strategies using movement, sociodrama, poetry, sound, and various forms of art media

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Experiential learning supplies needed:

 

  • 15 sheets white paper
  • Pencil with good eraser
  • Drawing supplies of your choice
  • Heavy-duty aluminum foil (small roll)
  • 5-10 chenille stems or pipe cleaners
  • Scissors (optional)
  • Glue or tape (optional)

 

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - CE Information Coming Soon

Continuing education credit information is coming soon for this non-interactive self-study package.

CEs may be available for select professions, as listed in the target audience. Hours will be dependent on the actual recording time. Please check with your state licensing board or organization for specific requirements. 

There may be an additional fee for CE certificates. Please contact our Customer Service at 1-800-844-8260 for more details. 

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.



Speaker

Patricia Isis, PhD, LMHC-QS, ATR-BC, ATCS's Profile

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Patricia Isis, PhD, LMHC-QS, ATR-BC, ATCS, holds a PhD in the expressive therapies with an emphasis on art therapy. Dr. Isis is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida and a registered board-certified art therapist and credentialed supervisor for art therapists and mental health counseling interns. Since 1980, Dr. Isis has practiced art psychotherapy in South Florida.

Dr. Isis is the author of The Mindful Doodle Book: 75 Creative Exercises to Help You Live in the Moment, and the researcher and co-author of a recent study published in the American Art Therapy Association Journal.

For over 30 years, Dr. Isis provided clinical art therapy services in public schools to children with emotional and behavioral disabilities. She is a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher and has facilitated Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs after training with Dr. John Kabat-Zinn and Dr. Saki Santerelli in 2000. She currently maintains a private practice, conducts research and publications, and consults with individuals, agencies, non-profits and corporations combining expressive arts therapies with mindfulness practices for trainings and workshops.

Dr. Isis is a popular presenter internationally, nationally, and locally. More information is available on her website www.MiamiArtTherapy.com

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Patricia Isis maintains a private practice and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Isis receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Patricia Isis serves on committees for the American Art Therapy Association and on the Art Therapy Credentialing Board (ATCB) Nominating Committee.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


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Objectives

  1. Determine how the expressive arts modalities with mindfulness and positive psychology are effective clinical tools.
  2. Identity appropriate use of expressive arts as therapeutic tools within scope of practice.
  3. Evaluate research outcomes for the application of mindfulness-based expressive art modalities.
  4. Utilize art making interventions for the alleviation of symptoms of anxiety.
  5. Identify creative arts activities to facilitate clinician-client rapport.
  6. Choose therapeutic art strategies to process trauma symptoms.

Outline

Therapeutic Use of Expressive Arts
  • Criteria for use: When and how
  • Cultivate presence and attunement
  • Strategies to dispel the fear of art and perfectionism in art
  • Establish growth mindset and intention
  • Application of current research
  • Scope of practice limitations with potential risks
  • Creative interventions as diagnostic tools
  • Experiential activity: Welcoming Practices
CREATIVE THERAPY INTERVENTIONS

Foster Self-Compassion, Self-Awareness, and Self-Care
  • Ethical self-care laws
  • S.T.O.P.: Slow down, Take a step back, Observe yourself inside and outside, Proceed mindfully
  • Safety mandalas
  • Art portfolios as personal narratives
  • Hands-on learning
Support Safety, Rapport, and Engagement
  • Warm-up activities: Soft landing practice, sociodrama
  • Group cohesive-building activities
  • Build rapport through spectrograms, locograms, and more
  • Directed vs. spontaneous therapeutic tasks
  • Case examples
Ease Anxiety and Depression
  • Art as mindfulness: breath drawings, mandalas, mindful doodling
  • Emotional release through expressive arts
  • Artistic self-inquiry, poetry inspiration, and more
  • Hands-on activity
Treat Trauma and PTSD
  • Therapeutic art activities to externalize memories, thoughts, emotions, and sensations
  • Verbal and non-verbal processing through visual art
  • Trauma-informed art directives
  • Projects as safe containers for big emotions
  • Experiential opportunity
Facilitate Grief Processing
  • Children, teen, adult and gender grief styles
  • Gentle grief exploration: Memorial options and grief timelines
Special Considerations
  • Cultural competence and appropriation
  • Creative interventions with children and teens
  • Creative therapy with groups, couples, parents, families
  • Integrate with ACT, CBT, DBT, and other modalities

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • School Psychologists
  • School Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Creative Arts Therapists

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