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

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

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

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1. Determine the neurobiological and clinical implications of using play and art therapies with clients.
2. Describe how expressive therapies can reframe a client’s trauma experiences, increase self-regulation, and connect to a mind-body awareness.
3. Articulate a minimum of three ways to assist clients in developing innner resilience, courage, creativiety and tenacity to reduce trauma symptoms.
4. List the seven steps a clinician would take to create and design multi-sensory theraputice storytelling for a theraputic session.
5. Appraise the ethical implications of using play and art therapies in clinical practice.
6. Articualte how to intergrate clay and drawings into clinical practice to promote a positive sense of identity and self-worth in clients.

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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

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