Events

Megan Campbell, Marriage and Family Therapist Associate & Justin Rock, LMFT, LPC
This training, focuses on the therapist's mode and attitude, emphasizing self awareness and presence over the traditional objectification of clients in suicidal work. By integrating existential-humanistic therapy principles, participants will learn to manage suicidality by addressing the root causes of distress, such as fear, meaninglessness, and isolation. The training will involve practical applications, ethical decision-making, and strategies to enhance the therapeutic relationship, aiming to reduce the risk of exacerbating suicidal tendencies through a more person-centered approach.

Presented by: Sarah Lincoln Pattee, LMFT
This course is for clinicians exploring whether to work with couples, as well as those who currently see couples but are feeling challenged by the complex issues presented by their clients. For newer therapists, this course will help prepare them for the choices and decisions they should make when deciding to see couples clinically. For those who see couples already, the course will explore the common issues that couples bring into a therapist's office to help clinicians be better prepared for complex and challenging cases. The second part of this course will cover the four typical issues that couples bring to therapy: loss of connection/lack of communication, sexual roadblocks, infidelity & other betrayal and polyamory/CNM– as well as give further resources for training and education.

Presented by: Emily Lichtenberg , Art Therapy Graduate Student Intern Do you identify as neurodivergent, or someone who struggles with verbal forms of expression? This weekly art therapy group utilizes art-making as a form of non-verbal creative processing for varying experiences and needs. Each week we will explore a different means of using art-making to access self-understanding, communicate with others, and process experiences. Reflective discussions closing each group will be open for participants to engage in at their comfort. This semi-open/semi-closed group is specifically for those who identify as neurodivergent and struggle with culturally-standard verbal forms of communication and expression.

Presented by: Amanda Melbostad Are you working in a helping profession and feeling the effects of burnout? This group meets once a month for 2 hours to help address symptoms of burnout by restoring your nervous system to a place of calm and rest. We utilize somatic and creative practices to slow down the body and mind in order to tap into your intuition and strengthen your sense of self. This is an open group and you’re welcome to join as you can, or for as many sessions as you’d like.

Presented by: Emily Lichtenberg , Art Therapy Graduate Student Intern Do you identify as a creative person and nature lover? This eco-art therapy group explores the relationship between creative expression and our connection to the more-than-human world. From discussing and learning how to use natural materials for art-making to creating art inspired by or about nature, we will co-create a nature-based creative experience to address eco-related concerns such as cultivating reciprocity with the more-than-human world, coping with eco-anxiety & eco-grief, and how to build a more sustainable creative practice in harmony with nature.

Presented by: Emily Lichtenberg , Art Therapy Graduate Student Intern Are you someone who practices polyamory or non-monogamy, or are curious/questioning about alternative relationship structures? Does living in a monogamy-oriented society cause you or your partner(s) anxiety, depression, or other mental health struggles? This group uses art therapy to process and discuss experiences within polyamorous/non-monogamous lifestyles. This monthly group adopts a trauma-informed art therapy approach and amplifies discussion points related to the relational experiences of folks with neurodivergent and 2SLGBTQIA+ identities. Each month's meeting will focus on a different topic and will include an opening discussion, light prompts for reflective artmaking, and a closing discussion. This group is respectfully open to all identities and orientations.

Presented by: Emily Lichtenberg , Art Therapy Graduate Student Intern Do you identify as neurodivergent, or someone who struggles with verbal forms of expression? This weekly art therapy group utilizes art-making as a form of non-verbal creative processing for varying experiences and needs. Each week we will explore a different means of using art-making to access self-understanding, communicate with others, and process experiences. Reflective discussions closing each group will be open for participants to engage in at their comfort. This semi-open/semi-closed group is specifically for those who identify as neurodivergent and struggle with culturally-standard verbal forms of communication and expression.

Presented by: Emily Lichtenberg , Art Therapy Graduate Student Intern Do you identify as neurodivergent, or someone who struggles with verbal forms of expression? This weekly art therapy group utilizes art-making as a form of non-verbal creative processing for varying experiences and needs. Each week we will explore a different means of using art-making to access self-understanding, communicate with others, and process experiences. Reflective discussions closing each group will be open for participants to engage in at their comfort. This semi-open/semi-closed group is specifically for those who identify as neurodivergent and struggle with culturally-standard verbal forms of communication and expression.

Presented by: Amanda Melbostad If you are currently on a healing journey and looking to deepen your practice through somatic and creative tools, this group is for you. Over the course of 3 weekends this group will combine somatic and creative practices within community to help restore your nervous system, in order to tap into intuition and strengthen a sense of self. If you’re currently feeling burned out from work, or life in general, and are tired of doing self-care alone, this group is for you.

Presented by: Emily Lichtenberg , Art Therapy Graduate Student Intern Do you identify as neurodivergent, or someone who struggles with verbal forms of expression? This weekly art therapy group utilizes art-making as a form of non-verbal creative processing for varying experiences and needs. Each week we will explore a different means of using art-making to access self-understanding, communicate with others, and process experiences. Reflective discussions closing each group will be open for participants to engage in at their comfort. This semi-open/semi-closed group is specifically for those who identify as neurodivergent and struggle with culturally-standard verbal forms of communication and expression.