THE CREATIVE COUNSELLOR:

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• THE CREATIVE COUNSELLOR
• INTEGRATING THE EXPRESSIVE ARTS INTO YOUR
  THERAPEUTIC PRACTICE
• By Jannah Tudiver, MA, CCC, LPC
• Catherine Fawcett, MA, MSW, RSW

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• INTRODUCTIONS
• WARM-UP ACTIVITY

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• WHY USE THE EXPRESSIVE ARTS IN YOUR PRACTICE?
• New tool for your toolkit
• Address client issues
• Well suited to brief therapy
• Stay inspired avoid burnout
• Practice self-care

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• CREATIVE EXPRESSION
• MENTAL HEALTH
• 1800s to the 1900s
• Arts as adjunct to medicine psychiatry
• Moral therapy for mental illness

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• 1920s
• Joseph Moreno psychodrama
• Florence Goodenough art assessment for cognitive
  development
• Margaret Lowenfield foundations of play therapy
  sandtray therapy

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• 1930s and 1940s
• Expressive therapies more well known
• Self-expression as alternative to talk therapy
• Major psychiatric hospitals include arts in
  treatment

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• 1950s ONWARDS
• (abridged version)
• Professional associations standards developed
• Expressive therapies integrated into medical,
  mental health, rehabilitative settings

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• WHAT ARE THE EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES?
• The use of art, music, dance/movement, drama,
  poetry/creative writing, play, and sandtray
  within the context of psychotherapy, counseling,
  rehabilitation, or health care
• Cathy Malchiodi, 2005

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• TYPES OF EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES
• Art Therapy
• Music Therapy
• Drama Therapy
• Dance/Movement Therapy
• Poetry Therapy
• Play Therapy
• Sandtray Therapy
• Expressive Arts Therapy
• Each discipline has its own association,
  qualifications, professional standards

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• COMMON THEMES AMONG EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES
• Sensory-based
• Creativity
• Aesthetic focus
• Action-based/body-based

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• WHAT IS EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY?
• Arts-based psychotherapy
• Interdisciplinary
• Integrates the arts eg. imagery, dance, music,
  drama, poetry, movement, visual arts
• Goal wellness healing

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• BACKGROUND OF EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
• Newest arts-based therapy
• Began in 1970s at Lesley College Graduate School

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• ALTERNATE NAMES FOR EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
• Expressive Therapy
• Integrative Arts Therapy
• Intermodal Expressive Therapy
• Multimodal Expressive Therapy
• A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

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• GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
• Reclaims our innate capacity for creative
  expression
• Creative expression is a healing, growth
  producing process
• Therapeutic transformation possible through
  expression

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• GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
• The arts are for everyone
• Low skill/high sensitivity
• Depth-oriented
• Layering of modalities

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• KEY THEORISTS IN EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
• Natalie Rogers creative connection
  person-centered
• Shaun McNiff therapy of the imagination art
  as medicine
• Paulo Knill arts are within each other
  de-centering process

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• APPALACHIAN STATES PERSPECTIVE
• Natural world as model for creative process
• Reclaiming ancient integration of arts life
  healing
• Dream-work emphasis
• The person of the therapist

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• ASSOCIATION REGISTRATION
• International Expressive Arts Therapy Association
  (IEATA), 1994
• Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT)
  Registered Expressive Arts Consultant/ Educator
  (REACE)
• Additional Resources
• Creative Arts in Counselling Chapter, CCPA
• See Resource List

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• WHAT POPULATIONS WILL THIS WORK WITH?
• The expressive arts are used with a variety of
  populations presenting issues including
• Psychiatric disorders
• Developmental disorders
• Cognitive disabilities
• Issues including addiction, trauma, grief,
  anxiety, depression

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• EXPRESSIVE ARTS ARE UTILIZED WITH
• Clients of all ages
• Clients with diverse backgrounds
• Individuals families
• Groups
• Outreach programs
• Expressive Arts Therapy is practiced taught in
  many countries eg. Peru, Israel Switzerland

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• WHO USES EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES?
• Approximately 30,000 practitioners in the U.S.
  are formally trained in therapeutic use of the
  arts
• Arts-based interventions have been integrated
  into fields such as medicine, social work,
  counselling, psychiatry psychology

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• CURRENT RESEARCH
• Recent research topics on the therapeutic use of
  expressive arts include
• Creative writing in prevention psychotherapy
• Music therapy in hospice palliative care
• Creative therapies in treatment for PTSD
• Dance therapy for women survivors of sexual abuse
• Increasing counsellor empathy through theatre
  exercises
• Guided imagery relaxation for women in early
  stage breast cancer
• Promoting positive mental health through art
  therapy
• The use of the arts in grief loss

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• A HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE

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• SIMPLE WAYS TO INTEGRATE THE EXPRESSIVE ARTS INTO
  YOUR THERAPEUTIC PRACTICE

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• RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRACTICE
• Try the activity 1st yourself
• Focus on process over product
• Respond to art with process comments avoid likes
  dislikes
• Counter negative statements eg I cant do art
• Explore when to participate versus when to be a
  witness
• Create openings closings

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• FURTHER
• RESOURCES

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QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?
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THANK YOU!

• Our Contact Information
• Jannah Tudiver jtudiver_at_mta.ca
• Catherine Fawcett cfawcett_at_mta.ca