Extensive Professional Training in Art Therapy
I attended the Art Therapy Institute in Dallas, Texas with its founder and director, Linda McCarley LCSW, ATR-BC, RPT-S and received 90 hours of continuing education. I have received over 114 hours of Continuing Education in Professional Training in Art Therapy, including school art therapy, art therapy across the lifespan-childhood, art therapy across the lifespan-adolescents, family art therapy, medical art therapy, art therapy treatment of clients with PTSD.
Art Therapy:
Art therapy helps to resolve conflicts, solves problems and facilitates transformation through self-exploration and expression. Art making provides a way to communicate using shape, color, and depicts relationship. There is choice as how to organize or structure personal meaning of ones created imagery.
Clients often use art to create something new out of distress to provide sensory, affective and cognitive narratives, which carry new meaning to their experiences.
www.americanarttherapyassociation.org
