Don't miss this...only chance for NBCC-Approved Credits in 2025 of Supervision (6 credit hours) and Ethics (6 credit hours) though the Institute-Registration closes on course start date BUT you can complete via REPLAYS and interactive, experiential engagement through our Thinkific Course platform even if you are unable to attend live zoom sessions!

A Live Webinar Series Designed to Meet Supervision Course CE Requirements [6 Hours] and Ethics Course Requirements [6 Hours]. Total of 12 CE [see Continuing Education Section Below for More Information]. Yes, replays of sessions are available approximately 24-48 hours after each webinar. You will be required to upload brief assignments to the course site to obtain a Certificate of Completion at the end of the webinar series. Full curriculum available below.
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Live Webinar Series Specifically Grounded in Expressive Arts Therapy and Art Therapy Supervision and Ethics with a Trauma-Informed Focus

We designed this course to highlight these specific principles and practices found in expressive arts and art therapy. Topics in the weekly curriculum focus on key and essential supervision and ethical issues in these professional domains. This course is not only geared toward expressive arts therapists and art therapists, but also mental health practitioners who are applying arts-based methods in their work. To help participants learn and apply this material, each session includes didactic, informational presentations and at least one experiential--hands-on time with methods and strategies. Interact with your colleagues through large group and break-out room discussion and networking. We provide extensive readings and resources on the course site, along with replays of the sessions-- and you have access for 120 (or ask for an extension) days after the last session of this webinar series to watch or catch up with the course content.
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Check Out the Curriculum Below!

We are always updating our courses for current content and resources. Our sessions include visual presentations, lecture, hands-on learning, interaction with participants, and time for questions and reflections.

Continuing Education

Designed to Meet Licensure and Certification Board Requirements for 6 Supervision Hours and 6 Ethics Hours

Continuing Education Information

Counselors/National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6557. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC are clearly identified. Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Art Therapy Credentials Board [ATCB]. The ATCB recognizes a variety of CEC activities, including those in the areas of professional and mental health counseling. These activities are clearly outlined in their recertification standards provided to all ATR-BCs in their recertification year and on their website. A minimum of six CECs must be earned in the area of ethics each cycle. If you are licensed as an art therapist in your state, please check with your state board to verify what types of CEC activities are acceptable for license renewal.

California Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers and Professional Counselors. As of July 1, 2015, the State of California /Board of Behavioral Sciences [BBS] amended its regulations for continuing education providers to include National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as a "board-recognized approval agency." If you are licensed as a marriage and family therapist, social worker, educational psychologist or professional clinical counselor in California, NBCC Approved Continuing Education Providers are recognized by the BBS to fulfill continuing education requirements. As of July 1, 2015, required CE hours can be accumulated through self-study and distance learning. 

International Expressive Arts Therapy Association [IEATA]. Many participants go on to apply for the REAT or REACE credential with IEATA and use our expressive arts therapy coursework to do so. Please check with IEATA to make sure you are meeting their current requirements for registration and let us know if you need additional information to help you qualify.

Psychotherapy and Counseling Fedration of Australia [PACFA]. Many of our Australian participants indicate that these hours are accepted by PACFA---Psychotherapy and Counseling Federation of Australia. Please check with PACFA to verify this and let us know if you require any additional information for this organization to qualify your professional development hours.

Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association [CCPA]. Many of our Canadian participants indicate that these hours are accepted by CCPA for certain professional development requirements. Please check with CCPA to verify this and let us know if you require any additional information for this organization to qualify your professional development hours.

CPD hours [Professional Development] are currently in the application stage. We also welcome teachers to this course; please contact us for additional information.

Credentialing boards in Canada, Europe, and Australia accept our courses for professional development. Please check with them to verify that this course applies to your goals for credentialing or renewal of registration, certification, or licensing.

Course curriculum

    1. Syllabus, Goals and Objectives of this Course

    2. Faculty for this Live Webinar Series

    3. Walkthrough this Live Webinar Site and Its Features

    4. ▶️ ZOOM LIVE format: notes and tips!

    5. Special Note About Art Materials and Expressive Arts Assignments!

    6. Disclaimer

    7. Optional: Introduce Yourself Here!

    1. ▶️ ZOOM Link and Supplies!

    2. Download Template and Instructions

    3. Arts-Based Supervision: Recent Research Summary

    4. Trauma Stewardship: What Is It?

    5. Beyond the Cliff | Trauma Stewardship from Laura van Dermoot

    6. The Elements: A Model of Mindful Supervision

    7. Empathy vs Compassion

    8. Article Download: Cultivating Self-compassion within the Supervision Relationship

    9. Supervision Issues: An Overview

    10. Compassionate Leadership

    11. Art Therapy Supervision: An Overview

    12. Cathy Malchiodi Quote on Curiosity and Compassion

    13. Gabor Mate Quote

    14. Foundations: The MSSS Model of Expressive Arts as Healing Practices

    15. MSSS Model in Detail

    16. Foundations: Trauma and the Circle of Capacity | Psychology Today

    17. Prompts for Supervision Steward Wheel

    18. Supervision Stewardship Prompts Downloadable File

    19. Replay Session One

    20. Please UPLOAD* and POST to Discussion! ---*Required

    21. Need Help Getting Through Course? Troubleshooting the Platform Progress!

    1. ▶️ ZOOM Link and Supplies!

    2. Downloadable Body Outlines: Some Alternatives

    3. Reflexive Convergence in Expressive Arts Therapy, Psychotherapy, and Supervision

    4. Embodied Cognition: What Makes Expressive Approaches Different!

    5. Article Download: Formative Evaluation Research of Art Based Supervision in Art Therapy Training

    6. Integrating the Art Process Into Supervision

    7. The Body and Somatic Approaches as Sources for Supervision

    8. Embodied Empathy in Psychotherapy: Demonstrated in Supervision

    9. Article Download: Intermodal Expressive Arts in Group Supervision

    10. Psychodrama A Creative Approach for Addressing Parallel Process in Group Supervision

    11. Supervision in Action PDF slides

    12. Experiential Slides PDF Download

    13. Even More Body Outlines

    14. Replay Session Two Part One

    15. Replay Session Two Part Two

    16. Please UPLOAD* and POST to Discussion! ---*Required

    1. ▶️ ZOOM Link and Supplies!

    2. Introduction to Art Therapy and Digital Technology: Terminology and Foundations

    3. Chapter Ten: Videotape and Supervision

    4. Ethics, Digital Technology, and Social Media

    5. Distance Supervision in Art Therapy

    6. Experience of Distance Supervision

    7. Counseling and Distance Supervision

    8. ATCB Registration Standards: Supervision specifics!

    9. NBCC Resources for Distance Supervision

    10. Stanford_Zoom Exhaustion and Fatigue scale

    11. Stanford researchers identify four causes for ‘Zoom fatigue’ and their simple fixes

    12. How Students Are Fighting Zoom Fatigue

    13. When Distancing Became Very Real: Global Pandemic and Its Impact on Mental Health Professionals

    14. Replay Session Three

    15. Please UPLOAD* and POST to Discussion! ---*Required

    16. PDF of Session Experiential; Let Go, Hold On

    1. ▶️ ZOOM Link and Supplies: Session #4!

    2. Ethics and Children's Art Expression: Child Abuse and Neglect

    3. Children of Darfur: The Smallest Witnesses

    4. Drawings as Admissable Evidence: What are Your Thoughts?

    5. DART Center Guidelines for Interviewing Children

    6. Article Download: Applying Art Therapy Directives to Ethical Decision Making

    7. A Summary of Expressive Arts and Play Therapy Ethics Codes and Related Codes

    8. Canadian Art Therapy Association Standards of Practice

    9. Play Therapy Best Practices Document (2020)

    10. ATCB Code of Ethics

    11. Expressive Arts Therapy Code of Ethics

    12. American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics

    13. Nation Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) Code of Ethics

    14. National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics

    15. American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT) Code of Ethics

    16. Ethical and Legal Issues with Children's Drawings

    17. Summary on the Convention on the Rights of the Child

    18. Replay Session Four Part One

    19. Replay Session Four Part Two

    20. Please UPLOAD* and POST to Discussion! ---*Required

    1. ▶️ ZOOM Link and Supplies: Session #5!

    2. Downloads for Experiential in session #5!

    3. Touch Guidelines from Play Therapists

    4. 10 types of touch in therapy! Check out the video* in this webpage. *pre-covid times

    5. 10 ways practitioners can avoid frequent ethical pitfalls

    6. Telehealth Art Therapy at University of Pennsylvania

    7. Article Download: Online art therapy practice and client safety: a UK-wide survey in times of COVID-19

    8. Boundaries and Dual Relationships-- Resource Page

    9. Additional resource website on Dual Relationships, Multiple Relationships, and Boundary Decisions!

    10. Riding the SEESAW of Values and Ethics: A Guide to Best Practice

    11. Article Download: Ethical Issues in School Art Therapy

    12. DoART: a Model to Guide Ethical Decision Making

    13. Replay Session Five

    14. Please UPLOAD* and POST to Discussion! ---*Required

About this course

  • $229.00
  • 124 lessons
  • 12 hours of video content

Instructor(s)

Institute Faculty | Supervisor Emily Johnson Welsh

Emily Johnson Welsh, EXAT, REAT, LPAT-S, ATR-BC, LPCC-S, RYT  has over 16 years’ experience providing expressive arts therapy support and developing resources in trauma-informed approaches and integrative wellness. She is a graduate of Lesley University’s Expressive Arts Therapy and Mental Health Counseling program in 2008 and is a licensed and board-certified art therapist, licensed clinical counselor supervisor, registered expressive arts therapist and a Yoga Alliance Registered teacher. As faculty for the Trauma-informed Expressive Arts Therapy Institute for over 10 years, she brings a current knowledge of expressive arts and body-based approaches that focus on building resilience and community. She provides technology-assisted distance supervision for those working towards the EXAT, EXA-CE, REAT (Registered Expressive Art Therapist), ATR (Registered Art Therapist), and LPAT (Licensed Professional Art Therapist in Kentucky).  Emily’s accomplishments in the field include presentations at conferences for the American Art Therapy Association, Buckeye Art Therapy Association, Kentucky Association for Play Therapy, and International Expressive Art Therapy Association;  authoring and co-authoring chapters in the book Art Therapy and Healthcare (Guildford Press, 2013) ; co-designing and co-facilitating the online artmaking workshop  “Art Therapy + Happiness Project;"  being awarded "Cure Champion" by the American Cancer Society for my accomplishments in bringing expressive art therapy and yoga programming to families fighting cancer. Most recently, Emily enjoys balancing her expressive arts therapies private practice, Art Yoga Love, LLC, serving children, families, and adults, with yoga studio ownership and teaching! She is also enamored with being outside, animals of all sorts, the wonders of parenting, and hopes to never stop finding gratitude in these daily adventures.

Institute Faculty | Supervisor AriAnna Carroll, LMHC, REAT, EXAT

Ari is a licensed mental health counselor, registered expressive arts therapist, and an EMDR certified provider. She is a certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator and is working towards completing all levels of training in the Oaklander Model of Gestalt Play Therapy. Since graduating from the Expressive Arts Therapy Program at the University of Louisville in 2004, she has supported groups and individuals of all ages in a variety of settings including schools, residential care settings, in-patient treatment centers, rehabilitation programs, and out-patient mental health therapy settings. Ari is currently in private practice, the first in Iowa to put expressive arts therapy at the heart of client care. She specializes in providing youth and family-based services, in addition to working with adults that have an interest in resourcing expressive arts. Ari offers technology-assisted supervision for those working towards the EXAT, EXAT-CE, and REAT (registered expressive arts therapist), encouraging growth through supportive dialog, inquiry into theory and approaches, and active practice of expressive arts modalities. As a life-long percussionist, she has a special interest in integrating rhythm and sound oriented approaches into therapy. As parent to a neurodivergent child, she is invested in continued learning relating to neurodiversity affirming practices and advocacy. She enjoys exploring the relationship between expressive arts therapy, neuroscience, and sensory-oriented insights, and how this informs practice that encourages wholistic engagement, integration, and healing. Her accomplishments include creating community-oriented therapeutic expressive arts programming for adults and youth, supporting those with interest in private practice development, certification in Rhythm 2 Recovery, a therapeutic method that integrates rhythm and reflection for social emotional health, and partnering with schools in support of neurodivergent children and families, serving as co-creator and facilitator in presentations and support groups for parents/caregivers of twice-exceptional youth within her community. Ari creates harmony between practice and play with her family, pursuing outdoor adventures and shared creative outlets, appreciating the journey ahead of the destination.

Instructor and Institute Director

Institute Faculty Cathy Malchiodi PhD

Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, REAT is a research psychologist, a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, and a licensed mental health counselor. She is the executive director of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute and is an investigator with the US Department of Education, integrating trauma-informed expressive arts into classrooms. She has also worked with the Department of Defense since 2008 to bring expressive arts therapy programming and psychotherapy to combat military and their families and Veterans with posttraumatic stress and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Malchiodi studied with Francine Shapiro and is qualified in EMDR Level I and Level II. Cathy has assisted more than 500 agencies, organizations, and institutions in developing trauma-informed programming including the United Nations, Department of Defense, Kennedy Center, Harvard, MIT, and Johns Hopkins University. An international presenter and workshop leader, she given over 750 invited keynotes and workshops throughout the US, Canada, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. She has authored 21 books, including the bestselling Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process and Handbook of Expressive Arts Therapy. Her books have been translated in over 20 languages. A life-long learner, Dr. Malchiodi's latest research and practice includes sensory processing and neurodiversity affirming models of psychotherapy to address trauma through expressive approaches to intervention.

Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy: The Seven Principles

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