Welcome to this Free Event!

Join Us to "Reset" Your Nervous System through Expression and the Senses

Welcome to this free event! As we get closer to the actual event on December 6, 2024 (12 noon Eastern Time Zone), we will post more details. Until then, we suggest you register as soon as possible because the spots for attending will be limited. So check back and check your email for the link to this session as we get closer to the event. 

There are no continuing education hours associated with event. 

Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Welcome and We Are Happy You Have Joined Us

    • Zoom Link for this Live Session
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    • Check Back Soon!
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    • We Are Happy You Joined Us!

Institute Faculty

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.

Institute Guest Faculty

Institute Faculty

Amber Elizabeth Gray PhD

Dr. Amber Elizabeth Lynn Gray is an award winning dance movement therapist, human rights psychotherapist, authorized Continuum teacher and lifelong movement artist and inquirer. She has worked for 25 years with survivors of human rights abuses, war, torture, long term oppression and historical, social and collective trauma. Equally artist, advocate, mystic, author, educator, and therapist, she, her clients and mentors co-created Survivor- & Spirit-centered, Polyvagal-informed approaches to somatic and dance/movement psychotherapy for trauma that are holistic and emergent. A lover of all things wild, Amber regularly facilitates eco-somatic-dance retreats for survivors and caregivers.