Inner Canvas

03/16/2021

18 CE's. Want to bring ART to your trauma work with clients? ArtKey shows you how! Six more days to register with discount code!

This course is full of colorful examples and client vignettes, hands-on learning opportunities, and real-time discussion. Plus, we’ve made sure to include telehealth tips and considerations when using art in exposure-based trauma treatment.

To register: www.innercanvas.com/artkey. (Use coupon code-- hopematters for $20 off) 18 CE's.

Want to learn how to use art to enhance exposure-based trauma treatment? We'll show you how. Starts April 23, 2021. 18 CE's

03/12/2021

Did you miss the Hope Matters Art Retreat?
Download your free Infusion of Hope Art Invitation Worksheet!

Do you need an infusion of HOPE? Let’s revive the essence of our work… (and make art together!) Did you miss it live? No worries. Watch the replay of this FREE mini Art Retreat… where we guide you to use the simplest of all art activities–mark making–to create a simple and tangible tool th...

02/09/2021

Here's a new blog post that includes information about an upcoming FREE EVENT!!

The stress that we therapists are under, both personally and professionally, is straining our abilities to be present from moment to moment.

02/01/2021

Resilience is vital to well-being. Here are some easy and effective ways to boost resilience for yourself, your family, and your clients.

Visit www.innercanvas.com for more ideas about creativity and therapy, including continuing education for therapists who want to partner with their creativit...

01/27/2021

Therapists, do you need a little hope these days? Do you have a colleague that could use the gift of inspiration? Read this blog post and then share it with someone else who needs it! Kendra McGivney wrote about how she used 4 highlighters and a pen to help her client with nightmares. Simple, powerful, inspiring!!

We can create meaningful art invitations for our clients and see big changes, even through telehealth, even with limited supplies, and even with all of the new distractions that come from working from home.

01/26/2021

Daisy is a love. She is cozy and sweet and falls asleep when it is time to get a pedicure. Sometimes I watch this video when I want a boost of oxytocine. Then I feel more connected and compassionate. Which is what we need to be. So here you go. Watch the video as many times as you need to!

01/25/2021

Here is a list of interesting and applicable metaphors for therapy. When using art in therapy, much of the time, metaphors reveal themselves to the client. When we can highlight the metaphor and deepen its applicability to the issue at hand, we can help our clients form a multi dimensional experience that invites change.

Effective therapy metaphors - the best analogies for growth, self-care, emotions, addiction, grief, counseling, and life.

01/21/2021

Using our hands--being creative--feeling whole and attuned.....that's what it is all about.

Simply a wonderful, four-minute film about the value of handwork and experiencing the world.

01/03/2021

If we are talking about the same things over and over again, we are only reinforcing those things. We are laying the tracks so that our thoughts and states of being have only one route to travel. And that’s not good—it’s not good for us, not good for our clients.

07/20/2020

It's ready for you!!! Kendra and I can't wait to share all of the trauma treatment goodness that we've prepared. If you'd like to use a special coupon code for being a loyal InnerCanvas follower--please enter YESPLEASE at checkout in the "apply coupon" field. It will save you $40. But it's only good until August 1.

Want to learn how to use art to enhance exposure-based trauma treatment? We'll show you how. Starts September 11, 2020. 18 CE's

06/06/2020

We are making progress! The new CE course, ArtKey: Use art to unlock more effective trauma narratives, is almost ready! Kendra and I have been working hard to put together a 4 week course that teaches you how to enhance your trauma treatment with art. We've distilled the process and have figured out that there are two essential skills a client must have in order to do the work this way. We have about 20 art invitations that your clients can practice in order to master these two skills--all the while benefiting from therapy. We've also formulated meaningful art invitations for your hands-on learning. And we have put it all together for you in two powerful case studies.

We still have filming to do....and the CE's are nearly approved. But so many of you have asked for an update I wanted to be sure to give you one.

Here's the back story in case you didn't get to read it in a prior email.

As some of you know, during the last two years I’ve attempted to formulate more teaching, more classes, something to continue to support you in bringing creativity and art into your work. Every time I sat down to write a new curriculum it felt too hard or pressured. I wanted to, but I was still in transition and needed to sink in further to a new way of living. Like many of the projects that I had planned, I put it on the back burner because I refused to force it.

There was something brewing anyway in this wonderful fertile time.

At the same time, I was supervising a former workshop student of mine named Kendra McGivney, LCSW. She’s smart and experienced and creative. We share similar roots in starting our careers in Wrap-Around services and in working with teens. Since she works for LA county, her treatment approach has to be evidence based and she uses Trauma Focused CBT every day. At the end of our year and a half, weekly supervision meetings, a huge lightbulb went off for me. I realized that Kendra and I had formulated a very exciting and effective way to enhance exposure-based trauma treatment with art. On our last day, I invited her to co-create a course with me that features her successful case studies and the powerful new approach we formulated in our work together. She said yes!!!!!!

Doesn't that sound great!!!?

Course details: 4 weeks of online learning. Each week you will listen to a lecture, watch a how to video on a specific art invitation, and complete the art homework. Then you will come to a live zoom meeting (or watch the recording) to discuss the homework and learn more. 14 CE's

Cost: TBD
Dates: TBD

If you would like to make sure to be included, private message me with your email and I will put you on the list. I will make sure you get the registration information when it becomes available.