Training & Professional Development
Training & Professional Development
EBAT's Owner Tonia Herrero offers in-person and virtual arts-based trainings, professional development, and employee wellness workshops for various types of professionals. All of our trainings and workshops are arts-based and highly experiential. She will come to your facility in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. If you are outside of our area, we have virtual options as well.
For Teens or Adults Interested in a Career in Art Therapy:
• Introduction to Art Therapy
For Mental Health Clinicians
• Therapeutic Art Making in Clinical Practice for Non-Art Therapists
• Therapeutic Art Making for Integration into DBT Treatment
• Art Making for Clinician Self-Care and Processing Clinical Work with Clients
For Educators
• Trauma-Informed Practices & Social Emotional Learning (For K-12 Educators)
• Creating a Trauma-Informed School (For School Administrators)
• Therapeutic Arts & Social Emotional Learning in Art Education (For K-12 Arts Educators)
• Art Making for Educator Self-Care and Processing Vicarious Trauma in the Educational Environment (For All School Staff)
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Includes all materials & supplies to use during training (in-person)
In-person and Virtual Options
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Upcoming On-Site Trainings
Therapeutic Art Making in Clinical Practice for Non-Art Therapists
Are you a mental health clinician interested in learning how to ethically incorporate art making into your clinical work as a non-art therapist? What may be difficult for our clients to express in words can become more accessible when they are given the opportunity to express themselves through a creative art form. Artmaking can serve as a bottom-up, somatic process that can help our clients communicate in a way that may feel safer for them. Although you will not become an Art Therapist after this training, you will be able to incorporate art making activities with your clients in individual or group settings that will help you build rapport and deepen the therapeutic process and relationship. In this training you will learn the history of art therapy and some of the psychology behind the art making process, be presented with case examples, and get the hands-on experience of learning a few therapeutic art-making directives and actually get to create the artworks yourself! If attending in person, all art materials will be provided. If attending virtually, participants will be sent a supply list to purchase their own materials.
Learning Objectives:
• Identify and describe the role of art making as a theoretically grounded clinical intervention.
• State the difference between “art therapy” and “therapeutic art making”.
• Identify when certain art materials are appropriate for clients based on presenting issues.
• Identify arts-based treatment goals for clients based on the Expressive Therapies Continuum.
• Learn and experience 3-4 therapeutic art making activities appropriate for use with varied clinical populations.
Facilitated by Tonia Herrero, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, ATCS
Licensed & Board-Certified Art Therapist, Certified Art Therapy Supervisor and Owner of East Bay Art Therapy
Saturday, January 24th, 2026
11:00am-3:00pm
$165 per person
$140 student rate
Hybrid: Oakland Office & Zoom Options
(If you are local, in-person is highly encouraged)
This training is for:
• LMFT, LPCC, LCSW, LEP, PPSC, and Psychologists (Associates included)
• Other Creative Arts Therapists such a Drama, Music, Dance/Movement, and Expressive Arts Therapists
• Graduate Students currently enrolled in any Clinical Masters Program
• Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
• School Counselors / Guidance Counselors
• Other Allied Mental Health Professionals
• Art Therapists looking to brush up on their skills
Please note, EBAT is not an approved CE provider.
Please note, you will not become an art therapist or be able to practice art therapy after this training.
To get on the interest list, click the button below to send us a message or email Tonia directly at Tonia@eastbayarttherapy.com