Expressive Arts for Moving Through Your Day

This workshop offers 1 CE unit.*
See “Continuing Education” below for purchase information and details.


Workshop Overview

Therapists like us often need a little more care for our bodies throughout the day, between sessions, and sometimes during sessions!

This workshop will offer suggestions for scheduling sessions, and activities to be utilized between sessions, to ensure our bodies are well-cared for and listened to (using yoga, dance and movement, embodied breath, the senses, and nature to re-embody). We start by bringing our own bodies to therapy as practitioners, and in taking care of them, we can also encourage our clients to do the same.

The types of activities offered in this workshop allow therapists time for a self check-in and needs assessment in an instant. Whether it's simple self-care of our chronic condition or it's shaking off the vicarious trauma we just experienced with our last client before our next client shows up, these quick (and some longer) exercises allow us to reconnect and center in ways that will help us be better versions of ourselves. This workshop offers an ethical self-care approach to being a provider for others.

This workshop will be recorded and available for 30 days following the event.

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

  1. Identify several ways to connect with your body between (and during) sessions

  2. Describe breathing techniques to self-assess for stress, fatigue, and disconnection

  3. Describe several ways to connect with nature as a resource

  4. Describe ways to adjust schedule to build-in time for self-care

  5. Explain ethics of self-care as a provider

  6. Identify 3 or more tools for building self-care into practice


PRESENTED BY

Becky Robbins
MA, LMHC, CYT, REAT (pending), CCDW

 
 

Becky is a Jane-of-all-trades when it comes to therapy, life, and change-making. She holds her LMHC in the state of Washington, graduated from Antioch University Seattle with her MA in clinical mental health counseling, specialized in drama therapy, and completed a simultaneous certificate in expressive arts therapy at Northwest Creative and Expressive Arts Institute. 

She is trained and/or certified in many other areas prior to, during and after becoming a therapist. Some of these areas of expertise include: Yoga Instructor and Yoga Therapist, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Clinical Dreamworker, Nature-based and Adventure Therapist, SoulCollage® Facilitator, Transformational Life and Leadership Coach, Integrative Therapist (nutrition), and a Shamanic practitioner. Becky integrates coaching, symbolism, ecopsychology, and spirituality into most of her work with clients. Movement and time in nature are key aspects of her work, as is working with symbolism, art, and other creative modalities (such as working relationship topics and dreams through the use of tarot and oracle cards).

Becky loves to learn (obviously!) and continues to bridge and combine modalities as far as her creative mind can take her. Becky has battled undiagnosed chronic health conditions throughout her life, and most recently changing careers and her entire lifestyle to adapt to chronic pain and fatigue. BUT WAIT....there's more.... The constant battle with chronic pain and fatigue has offered Becky the opportunity to see what really makes her thrive: creativity, nature, beauty, movement, play, and generally all of the things she now utilizes to help her clients and anyone she interacts with who is feeling stuck and needing help.

Becky believes in bringing the body to therapy, aka embodied therapy. This means the practitioner AND the client can show up not just cognitively or even emotionally, but physically. I'm sure most of us know by now that "The Body Keeps the Score" (Bessel van der Kolk)--that trauma and most of our life experiences are held or remembered in our bodies. If we can work more with our bodies in therapy and as therapists between sessions, it can expand our capacity, our ability, and deepen our work with clients.

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION

*The conference is co-sponsored with the Insight Center, who will be providing the Continuing Education credits. A CE certificate for this workshop is issued for a $20 charge. Instructions for purchasing CE certificates will be emailed after registration is completed and certificates are issued after the workshop is completed. Continuing Education Certificates must be purchased within thirty (30) days after the event.

Psychologists: The Insight Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Insight Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This workshop provides 1 CE unit.

MFTs / LCSWs / LPCCs: The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts APA CEs. This workshop provides 1 CE unit.