Ever wondered if Art Therapy is the right career for you? This training provides a detailed overview of the steps it takes to become an art therapist for people in all stages of their educational or professional journey. In this training you will engage in multiple art therapy activities to learn for yourself what it feels like as a participant and provide you with a snapshot of what the career field may entail. You will leave this training with clear next steps to pursue a career in art therapy. This training doubles as a self-care and personal processing opportunity.

Art making is not just for clients! Creative expression is a great self-care strategy for managing and preventing burn out, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. Art making can also be a great tool for exploring our professional identity as clinicians and processing counter-transference. In this training, you will get hands-on experience with art making activities for self-care and for processing our relationships with clients, and professional identity.

Being an educator is overwhelming and stressful, and it impacts us on a deep level. That is why it is important to take time to focus on ourselves and our own healing journey. The art making process is not only healing, but it can help us understand ourselves and our experiences on a deeper level. In this training, participants will actively engage in art processes that will be grounding, healing, and facilitate self-exploration and reflection. Psychoeducation about art therapy, burn out, and vicarious trauma as an educator will be provided.

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. Art making 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.

Our students come to school with a multitude of trauma and complex psychological dynamics that effect not only their behavior and ability to learn as well as the way they orient themselves to the adults at school. Art educators have a unique opportunity to provide a therapeutic creative experience for students. In this training, the facilitator will provide an introduction to the field of art therapy, psychoeducation of trauma, what it means to be a trauma-informed educator, and offer arts lessons that promote social and emotional learning goals for students. Participants will actively engage in the creative process.

Artmaking is a safe and experiential way for clients to practice DBT skills during treatment. Artmaking is also an opportunity for clients to explore DBT concepts to deepen their understanding of these consepts as well as express their thoughts and feelings in response to these concepts. Although you will not become an Art Therapist after this training, you will be able to incorporate art making activities within DBT treatment in individual or group settings. In this training you will learn psychology behind the art making process, be provided psychoeducation on DBT concepts and skills, and experience 4 arts-based interventions yourself.

Our students come to school with a multitude of trauma and complex psychological dynamics that effect not only their behavior and ability to learn, but the way they orient themselves to the adults at school. This has a deep effect on school culture and the personal and professional experience of educators. In this training, the facilitator will provide psychoeducation of trauma, what it means to be a trauma-informed educator and offer practical tools that can be used at school sites both in and out of the classroom to promote the best possible SEL outcomes for students as well as educator well-being.

We offer weekly arts-based supervision for new art therapists who are working on their hours for their ATR (Registered Art Therapist) credential as well as the LAT/LCAT license in Oregon. 50 of the 100 supervision hours required to obtain the ATR must be with a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC). Our supervisors help supervisees set professional and clinical goals, get feedback on cases, and process countertransference. All of our supervision is through a neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+ affirming, disability justice, trauma and social justice informed, and decolonial framework.

We design custom trainings for clinicians that focus on the implementation of therapeutic art making activities for clients with specific presenting issues and identities, such as: adolescents, children, autism, ADHD, substance use, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, psychosis, older adults, self-harm and suicidal ideation, personality disorders, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and more.

Lauren Chester facilitates a Group Art Therapy Supervision for Art Therapists collecting hours for their ATR. Lauren brings over 15 years of clinical experience working with diverse populations and provides neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+ affirming, decolonial and disability justice oriented, trauma and social justice informed support,  mentorship and case consultation to supervisees in this group.

We work directly with K-12 school administrators either in a training format or individualized coaching in order to create a trauma-informed school. Administrators will learn trauma-informed strategies they can implement within their campus and faculty in order to create an environment where students succeed in both academics and social emotional learning objectives. Developing a trauma-informed school increases academica performance and attendance, decreases behavioral issues, and increases emotional and psychological well being for both students and faculty.

Are you a private practice owner interested in scaling to a group practice? As a private practice owner since 2019, and a group practice owner since 2022, Tonia has developed the expertise to guide therapists in the steps necessary to expand their solo practice into a thriving group practice. Over the years, Tonia has mentored many clinicians in starting and growing successful group practices.

Our own lived experience impacts how we respond to the presenting issues and lived experience of the individuals we work with, especially when trauma (theirs and our own) is involved. In this training, an overview of trauma and transference/countertransference will be provided and participants will engage in verbal and creative personal exploration of their countertransference with clients they wish to process. Participants will participate in arts-based activities to help them better understand their own triggers in the therapy room and how to use art making as a tool for personal  and professional exploration.

We design custom professional development sessions or series of sessions based on the specific needs of your team and the current issues in your classrooms and faced by your school community. We work closely with school leaders to help identify where the gaps are in your team's knowledge, understanding or level of burn out. Whether it's enhancing cultural competency, building self-care strategies, improving interdepartment collaboration, or creating more trauma-informed lesson plans, we can help your team thrive instead of just survive.

Grief is a powerful process that can be complex for our clients to work through. It may also bring up our own feelings or trigger our own experiences of grief and loss. In this arts-based training, participants will learn about the types of grief, stages of grief and engage in multiple art-making activities that they can implement with their clients as well as use on their own to manage their own countertransference. These activities also invite participants to explore their own relationship with grief.

Are you a therapist interested in starting your own private practice? Are you a creative arts therapist struggling to find your way in our niched and often misunderstood profession? As a private practice owner since 2019, and a group practice owner since 2022, Tonia has developed the expertise to guide therapists (and specifically creative arts therapists) in the steps necessary to start a thriving private pay solo therapy practice. Over the years, Tonia has mentored many clinicians in starting and growing successful practices.