CREATIVE CEUs | TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS
The Center for Creative Arts Therapy is dedicated to leading and developing creative training opportunities and continuing education for the mental health community, enhancing arts-based psychotherapy skills within one’s practice.
We also offer clinical consultation, as well as internships, postgraduate training and supervision. Training opportunities are designed for students and professionals in health and wellness professions to learn, network and collaborate.
The Center for Creative Arts Therapy's Faculty and Staff are available to provide creative arts therapy presentations, trainings and workshops on a variety of topics designed to meet your educational interests.
All program options are customizable to the organization and individual.
CUSTOMIZABLE PROGRAMS FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
For Organizations
Mental Health Training for Schools, Arts Organizations & Social Service Agencies
Parent Support Through Group Art-Making
Effectively Engaging a Child with Special Needs in Learning
What Did You Say?: Improving Communication with Your Teenagers
The Importance of Art and Movement in Therapy
Introduction to Music Therapy and Dementia
Forever Goodbye: How to Talk to Your Children About the Death of a Loved One
Express Yourself: Creative Movement for Children with Special Needs
Social Skills for the Socially Challenged Through Interactive Drama Therapy
Art Making for the Physically Challenged
Preparing For the Long Journey: How the Terminally Ill Can Make Peace
For Students
Introduction to Drama Therapy
Students learn the history, foundational principles and current approaches in the field
Psychodrama
Development of psychodrama, practical applications and history of Jacob L. Moreno
Expressive Arts Therapy
Understand the power of imagination to access and transform parts of self through the use of the arts
Therapeutic Theatre
Students learn various approaches in drama therapy with different populations
Ethical Issues in Expressive Arts Therapy
Gain working knowledge of the accrediting creative arts therapy bodies and the Counseling Association Standards of Ethical Practice
For Professionals
Creative Social Skills
Learn how to incorporate the arts into social skills sessions for clients.
Creative Self Care
Helping clinicians support their emotional well-being in a fun and interactive workshop.
Expressive Arts Therapies in Psychological Treatment: Guidelines for the Practicing Technician
Drama Therapy with Abused and Neglected Children
Welcome Home: Reintegration of Soldiers and Families through Expressive Arts Therapy
Feel the Beat: Music Therapy with Developmentally Disabled Clients
Psychodrama and PTSD
Dance/Movement Therapy for the Terminally Ill and Their Caregivers
Healing Flute Circles for Those Living with Cancer
Expressive Arts Therapy in Medical Settings
Beat It: Drumming for Oppositional Defiant Adolescents
Telling My Story: Healing Through Words
For Artists
Trauma Informed Directing Practices
Mental Health Training for Arts Organizations
Therapeutic Theatre
Students learn various approaches in drama therapy with different populations
Creative Self Care
Helping artists support their emotional well-being in a fun and interactive workshop.
Art Making for the Physically Challenged
Telling My Story: Healing Through Words
Emotional Wellness for Student Artists
What Do I Do Now?: What To Do When a Student Discloses.
Let us inspire and guide you towards healing the world through the arts.
The Center for Creative Arts Therapy offers creative, clinically focused trainings and workshops for students, mental health professionals, artists, organizations and educators in expressive arts and drama therapy.
Train with one of our globally influential and award-winning faculty, prepare yourself or your organization as leaders in your field, and effect purposeful and inspiring revolutions in the community.
For more information on Creative Arts Therapy training programs, compassionately creative counseling services and arts-based psychotherapists throughout the country, call us at (847) 477-8244, email us, or visit us at 2600 Warrenville Road, Suite 205, Downers Grove, IL 60515.