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Going Beyond Talk Therapy: Integrating Art, Play, Creativity, and Neuroscience into Practice: Integrating Art, Play, Creativity, and Neuroscience into Practice

1.0 CE Hours Clinical Introductory
Going Beyond Talk Therapy: Integrating Art, Play, Creativity, and Neuroscience into Practice: Integrating Art, Play, Creativity, and Neuroscience into Practice

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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify at least 2 of the primary sensory and neurological functions that inform safety/therapeutic challenges for clinicians and their clients.

  • Identify 3 basic supplies needed to incorporate creative techniques into clinical practice.

  • Describe at least 2 ways integrating creative expression assists both the clinician and the client with emotional regulation.

  • Identify 5-6 creative interventions that facilitate communication, promote self-expression, and enhance therapeutic rapport to improve client's personal strengths and describe how to apply them.

Description

Integrating creative and expressive techniques can bolster therapeutic rapport, promote client resilience, and develop an understanding of how our nervous systems create safe connections to deepen the healing experience of traditional “talk therapy.” Discover the benefits of creativity and expressive techniques scientifically proven to improve emotional well-being for both the client and the clinician.


Join us in a unique 1 hour playful, experiential, and interactive workshop, where you will learn to use creative interventions to safely integrate into your counseling sessions. Attendees will be actively engaged and will leave the workshop with creative techniques that can be applied and modified across diagnoses, populations, all ages, and situations.

Target Audience

  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Medical Doctor
  • Psychologist
  • Registered Nurse
  • Social Worker
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals

Presenters

Mary Affee, Ed.D., LCSW, RPT-S

Dr. Mary Affee is a licensed clinical social worker and a registered play therapist-supervisor. She is the founder and clinical director of Horizon Integrated Wellness Group, PLLC, a practice that provides mental health services for children, adolescents, and families. Dr. Affee specializes in play therapy, and she is the past President of the North Carolina Association for Play Therapy. Dr. Affee received the 2023 NASW-NC Social Worker of the Year award. In 2022, she was also awarded the Emerging Leader National Award of Excellence from the Association for Play Therapy. In 2014, she received an Award of Excellence from the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children. Dr. Affee is the author of four children’s books. In April 2020, Dr. Affee volunteered her time and expertise to provide psychological first-aid to New York’s first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Affee teaches a summer creative and expressive play therapy course at Molloy University, and she is a field supervisor for North Carolina State University’s MSW program. She is also an advisory board member for Hope Connection International and for Carol’s Hope for Childhood Cancer.

Financially Sponsored By

  • The Global Exchange Conference - Exchange Events