Expressive Arts Therapy

Dr. Cathy Malchiodi and Dr. Elizabeth Warson are looking forward to taking you through the integration of bilateral movement and drawing approaches with expressive arts therapy and sensory processing. The course sequence includes numerous expressive arts and sensory integration strategies to support your learning and if you are also an EMDR practitioner, how bilateral approaches complement and supplement your work with people of all ages. Learn more about what you need to know to understand individuals' capacities for this work; the pacing, positioning, and processes along the continuum of movement, sounding, rhythm, mark making, tapping, play, and even writing in our upcoming webinars and live courses. They will introduce you to BMDR to build capacity in body and mind, integrate the concepts found in EMDR and related approaches, and give you a foundation for these practices in your work. If you have completed other brief training in bilateral drawing or painting, this course takes you beyond seated work and introduces you to embodied cognition, reflexive convergence, restorative embodiment, sensory processing, and the reparative experiences that are part of expressive arts therapy. And this training is open to all, not just EMDR practitioners (who certainly are a big part of our community).