Expressive Therapies can:
- Enhance client’s ability to communicate effectively and authentically
- Overcome client resistance and build upon inner resiliency and strengths
- Reframe trauma experiences, increase self-regulation, and connect to a mind-body awareness
- Provide clients hands-on interactive experiences to heal from abuse, neglect, domestic violence and more
Janet Courtney, Ph.D., RPT-S, author and internationally recognized storyteller brings over 30 years of experience working with clients through expressive therapies, and will share a variety of expressive therapy interventions that you will be able to incorporate into clinical practice. Play, art & clay therapy, movement/dance/music, storytelling and nature are just some of the expressive therapies that Dr. Courtney will teach you in this recording, bringing you tools that can transform a client’s attachment related trauma, trauma associated with physical and emotional crises (abuse, neglect, domestic violence, natural disasters, among others). Expressive therapies can also provide clinicians a new and unique way to teach clients self-regulation skills to calm anxiety, focus attention, and overcome depressive states.
In this skill enriching training, you will learn therapeutic techniques that can empower your clients to:
- Build resiliency
- Reframe their trauma experiences
- Increase self-efficacy
- Self-regulate emotions
- Build a sense of control
- Connect to mind-body awareness and nature
- Enhance interpersonal relationships
- Take action beyond the therapy session to heal
Janet Courtney, PhD, LCSW, RPT-S, Boynton Beach, FL
Janet A Courtney, PhD, LCSW, RPT-S, is founder of FirstPlay Therapy®. She is a Registered Play Therapy-Supervisor, TEDx Speaker and past Chair of the Association for Play Therapy Ethics and Practice Committee and past President of the Florida Association for Play Therapy, FirstPlay Therapy was awarded third place overall in the Best Practices Showcase for FirstPlay Therapy at the First 1000 Days Infant Mental Health Summit (2018) along with the Children’s Healing Institute. She is author and editor of the following books:
Infant Play Therapy: Foundations, Programs, Models and Practice, and
Healing Child and Family Trauma through Expressive and Play Therapies: Art, Nature, Storytelling, Body & Mindfulness and
Nature-based Play & Expressive Therapies: Interventions for Children, Teens and Families, and
Touch in Child Counseling and
Play Therapy: An Ethical and Clinical Guide. Her research in practitioner experiences of training in touch and Developmental Play Therapy is published in the
American Journal of Art Therapy and the
International Journal of Play Therapy. She is a contributing author in several books including
Play-based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders and the book
Environmental Expressive Therapies (2017), and
Play Therapy Supervision (2023). She is also published in the
Journal of Therapeutic Horticulture. She offers a certification in FirstPlay Therapy® and provides training to professionals in the Ethical and Clinical Competencies of Touch, FirstPlay® Therapy, Ericksonian-based StoryPlay®, Expressive Therapies, and Nature-based Play Therapy. She has been invited to speak nationally and internationally including Bali, Indonesia, the Cayman Islands, England, Ireland, Morocco, Russia and the Ukraine. She is a provider through the Florida state boards of Mental Health and Massage Therapy, and an approved provider through the Association for Play Therapy. She specializes in infant mental health and infant play therapy, attachment, and Trauma related issues. Dr. Courtney’s new form of Kinesthetic Storytelling® can be found in her children’s book,
The Magic Rainbow. Website:
www.firstplaytherapy.com
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Janet Courtney is the founder of FirstPlay Therapy®, the FirstPlay Café Podcast, and the founder and editor of FirstPlay® Café. She receives royalties as a published author. Janet Courtney receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Janet Courtney is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the World Association for Infant Mental Health. She serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Play Therapy and USABP: International Body Psychotherapy Journal.