Expressive Arts Therapy Training

The Power of Expressive Arts Therapy

Creative expression has long been recognized as a powerful tool for healing and self-discovery. Through Expressive Arts Therapy, we can tap into our inner resources, explore our emotions, and gain new insights into ourselves. Now, more than ever is important to provide trauma-informed care, and Expressive Arts Therapy has become an essential part of trauma treatment.

At Mindful Journey Center, we offer a comprehensive certificate program in expressive arts therapy focused on trauma. Our online courses are designed to prepare mental health professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively integrate Expressive Arts Therapy into their clinical practice.

Since January 1, 2024, Mindful Journey Center, has been providing the Certificate of Expressive Arts Therapy curriculum of The Institute for Creative Mindfulness, offering expressive arts courses to fulfill the educational and supervision prerequisites for the Certificate of Expressive Arts. This represents the initial phase towards becoming a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT) accredited by the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association.

What is Expressive Arts Therapy?

Expressive Arts Therapy combine the visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing, and other creative therapies to foster deep personal growth and community development. IEATA (the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association) encourages an evolving multimodal approach within psychology, organizational development, community arts and education. By integrating the arts processes and allowing one to flow into another, we gain access to our inner resources for healing, clarity, and growth.

Certificate of Expressive Arts Therapy

The certificate program with Mindful Journey Center requires 75 educational hours and 25 hours of supervision with one of our Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT). Check out the complete list of requirements here, or reach out the director of our program, Irene M. Rodriguez, LMHC, REAT to see how she can help you complete the program!

Expressive Arts Therapy Supervision

If you are working towards your Certificate of Expressive Arts Therapy, you are required to complete 25 hours of individual or 50 hours of group supervision. If you're completing EMDR Therapy training with Mindful Journey Center, some of these supervision hours may also count towards your EMDR Training consultation hours.

Reach out for more information about how to combine your EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Therapy Training and Certificate of Expressive Arts Therapy's hours or book your Expressive Arts Therapy's individual supervision now.

Dancing Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the simple practice of noticing without judgment, savoring the art of being in the moment. Mindfulness, psychodrama, meditation, and yoga are modalities that can promote wellness and recovery. “Dancing Mindfulness” incorporates all of these elements. Dance becomes the primary avenue through which to access mindful awareness!

Irene Rodriguez offers English and Spanish language Dancing Mindfulness Facilitator trainings both in person and online.

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The Institute for Creative Mindfulness (ICM), licenses this training curriculum. The CE approvals pending.

This program fulfills the intensive requirement of the Certificate of Expressive Arts Therapy program offered by Mindful Journey Center. Learn more about the Dancing Mindfulness practice here

Visual Journaling Workshops

One of the best things about visual journaling is that you do not have to be an artist or have any previous experience, much less talent to practice. We all can express our emotions and feelings using the language of images. Visual journaling may help you to express yourself as you get in connection with your emotions, feelings, thoughts, and creative intuition. You don't need to have any art experience. We'll take you through the deep of layers and layers of painting, collages, and writing until the pages of your journal speak to you. The messages you receive from your images will show you what changes you need to make in your life to begin your healing from within.

The ABC of The Expressive Arts Therapy

This course offers an essential foundation for understanding the theory and history of expressive arts therapy and put it into practice in clinical settings with children, adolescents and adults. Concepts are discussed with an emphasis on a person-centered and trauma-focused approach. The ethical considerations and regulations of the practice of Expressive Arts Therapy according to IEATA are also discussed. Participants will have the opportunity to put these theoretical foundations into practice through activities using the expressive arts.

This course offer 6 CE credits and fulfills 6 educational hours towards the Certificate of Expressive Arts Therapy program with Mindful Journey Center.

Introduction to Expressive Art Therapy

Expressive arts therapy is an approach to psychotherapy with roots in indigenous cultures and a rich history of evolution within modalities such as Jungian, person-centered, and Gestalt psychotherapies. Defined by its emphasis on the multi-modal process of healing (exploring many combinations for creativity rather than relying on just one art form), the strategies of expressive arts psychotherapy can prove useful to trauma therapists practicing in a variety of modalities. In this workshop, participants are oriented to the fundamentals of expressive arts therapy history and approach.

This course offer 6 CE credits and fulfills 6 educational hours towards the Certificate of Expressive Arts Therapy program with Mindful Journey Center.