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

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Expressive Therapies may…

improve the client’s communication skills so that they are more genuine and effective.
Learn to push through client objections by drawing on your own reserves of strength and perseverance.
Trauma may be reframed, self-regulation can be improved, and a connection to one’s mind and body can be established.
Aid victims of abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and more via hands-on, engaging experiences.

Author and storyteller Janet Courtney, Ph.D., RPT-S, who has over 30 years of experience working with clients via expressive therapies, will provide a range of treatments from this field that may be used in therapeutic practice. Dr. Courtney will show you how to employ expressive treatments such as play, art and clay therapy, movement, dance, music, storytelling, and nature to help your clients overcome attachment-related trauma as well as trauma caused by physical and emotional crises (abuse, neglect, domestic violence, natural disasters, among others). Clinicians may find a fresh approach to teaching clients self-regulation skills through expressive therapies, which may help them reduce anxiety, improve concentration, and combat depression.

This course will teach you therapeutic approaches that will provide your clients the tools they need to:

Strengthen your ability to bounce back
Reformat their traumatic memories
Better your belief in your own abilities.
Control your own feelings
Gain confidence in your ability to handle situations
Reconnect with nature and your inner self.
Boost your connections with others.
Do all you can to help yourself get better outside of sessions.
Handouts
Post-Purchase Access to 87-Page, 7.04 MB User’s Guide
ASHA Credit Instructions – Self-Study Only, Due February 14 (0.03 MB)
Obtainable upon Payment
ASHA Form for Individual Study as a Participant – Due February 14, 2017 (1.54 MB)
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The Right Side of the Brain: Where Creativity Resides

Neurological progress
Brain mechanisms in trauma: bringing together logic and emotion
Advantages of Expressive Therapy for Trauma Recovery
Involve your senses (touch, sight, sound, and scent)
Building a relationship based on mutual respect, safety, and trust through the therapeutic alliance.

Evaluation and Treatment of Trauma using Visual Art Methods

Drawing on the strengths of the right hemisphere of the brain, it can convey more than words can.
Conquer skepticism, and establish trust and safety.
Make use of a sense of humor to assess the strengths and resiliency of the patient, the family, and the situation as a whole in order to develop an effective treatment and intervention strategy.

Music, dance, and other forms of expressive movement for posttraumatic growth.

Improve self-awareness and power over adversity
Build trusting relationships and strong social ties.
Releasing trauma and developing a “felt-self” via mindfulness practices.
Gain confidence via meaningful interactions with other people and the experience of being “heard.”

Releasing & Healing Traumatic Experience via Clay

Foster a feeling of individuality and value
Make someone feel secure by setting limits and limits on their movement.
Practice paying attention in the present moment and expanding your sensory awareness.
Feelings and physical pain that have been bottled up inside can be released (anger, frustration, depression, grief, loss, loneliness, confusion)

Narrative re-framing as a therapeutic tool for dealing with trauma.

Gaining independence via discovering one’s “Inner Storyteller”
Write your way out of suppressed pain.
Build therapeutic narratives for kids and teens using the Child Interview Storytelling Grid.
Develop self-control, toughness, and the ability to rewrite one’s trauma narrative.

The Healing Power of Nature in Post-Traumatic Growth

Construct nature-based healing metaphors.
Find out easy ways to include elements of nature into your treatment sessions.
“Steps to Resilience” in Overcoming Trauma
Recover from trauma and foster personal growth via outdoor healing rituals.
Practicing mindfulness outside; organize a nature therapy outing.

Concerns from a Medical and Ethical Perspective

Moral Considerations in Expressive Therapy
Consent after being fully informed
Countertransferences
Boundary and touch issues
Make plans with your client that will help them apply what they’ve learned in therapy to their everyday lives.
Faculty

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Dr. Janet A. Courtney, LCSW, founded FirstPlay Therapy® and teaches at Barry University’s School of Social Work in Miami Shores. She has been President of the Florida Association for Play Therapy, is a TEDx speaker, and facilitates StoryPlay®. She is an author of the chapter “Touching Autism through Developmental Play Therapy” in the book “Play-based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders” and has published in the International Journal of Play Therapy, the American Journal of Art Therapy, and the Journal of Therapeutic Horticulture. Dr. Courtney is also the author of Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy: An Ethical and Clinical Guide, which will be published in the spring of 2017.

Her training consists of FirstPlay Therapy® (which incorporates FirstPlay® Infant Massage Storytelling) and she is certified to teach it. Besides the United States, she has been asked to talk in places including the Cayman Islands, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Morocco, Russia, and the Ukraine. She is an expert on the effects of trauma and attachment difficulties on newborn mental health. The Magic Rainbow, written by Dr. Courtney, is an example of the novel Kinesthetic Storytelling® she has developed for children. You may learn more about her at her website, www.FirstPlayTherapy.com.

Speaker Disclosing Statements

FirstPlayTM Therapy was founded by Janet Courtney, who is also an entrepreneur. She works as both a private practitioner and a lecturer at Barry. Dr. Courtney is compensated by PESI, Inc. for her speaking engagements.

For reasons other than money, Janet Courtney is involved in the National Association of Social Workers.

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