Description:

This engaging 6 hour art and play therapy workshop will provide a foundational overview of Art Therapy and EMDR (Shapiro) and ways they can be integrated to improve age-appropriate efficacy in the play therapy setting from toddlers to adolescence in individuals and family sessions. Integrating expressive arts and play therapy with EMDR is a pioneering field with evolving publications and trainings. Both presenters are licensed art therapists trained in advanced IFS and EMDR (Davis is certified in EMDR, is a trainer and consultant). They will demonstrate the overlap of these 3 models in the play therapy room. Davis is the lead editor/author and Kolodny is a contributor in the recent book (2023) on EMDR and the Creative Arts Therapies.

Trauma-informed creative art directives will be experienced for each of the 8 phases of EMDR with developmentally sensitive interventions.  Virtual learning methods include clinical cases, demonstration videos, and diverse FUN art experientials with group discussion.  A neurosequential “bottom- up” approach to child trauma treatment will be utilized (Perry) as well as other developmental trauma models (Siegel, van der Kolk). Further, child dissociation will be considered in these art and play interventions.

Please Note: Prior knowledge of EMDR, IFS and/or expressive arts are not required. This workshop is not a training to use EMDR or IFS protocol and will not count towards certification in either model. Intention is to provide a basic understanding and to improve clinical efficacy with addressing attachment wounds, bilateral stimulation benefits, history taking, safety, resourcing, affect regulation, grounding, containing, and somatic parts work. 

However, if participants are trained in EMDR, IFS, and/or expressive arts on a more advanced level, this workshop will increase proficiency in play therapy. 

Learning Objectives

• Describe 3 age appropriate approaches to history taking in phase 1 of EMDR. 

• Describe 4 developmentally sensitive ways of integrating the creative arts into the 8 phases of EMDR to improve efficacy of treatment in the playroom

•  Name 3 ways bilateral drawing differs from bilateral stimulation within EMDR 

• Define 3 ways the creative arts therapies are beneficial in treatment of child trauma survivors addressing attachment wounds and dissociation 

•   Describe 3 developmental appropriate creative approaches to address EMDR scaling (VoC, SUDS) with children

• 6. Describe 4 ways developmental trauma is addressed by neurosequential model, expressive arts, and EMDR

Presenters:

Peggy Kolodny, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT and Elizabeth Davis, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT

Peggy Kolodny MA ATR-BC LCPAT, is a Board Certified, Registered, and Licensed Art Psychotherapist with level 2 certificates in EMDR and in Internal Family Systems (IFS). Founder of the private practice Art Therapy Collective of Owings Mills, she has specialized in trauma treatment across the life span for 40 years. She is an approved Art Therapy Supervisor in Maryland. Peggy is adjunct faculty with George Washington University Art Therapy Graduate trauma program and Florida State University’s Art Therapy Graduate summer program, as well as multiple professional training faculties, presenting workshops internationally. She is a founding Faculty of Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars, and the Ferentz Institute.  Currently, on the Board of the Maryland Art Therapy Association and is their current delegate to the American Art Therapy Association, she is also the current chair of the Creative Arts Therapies Special Interest Group, part of the International Society on the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD).  Past faculties include University of Maryland School of Social Work, Goucher College, and Maryland Institute, College of Art. Recent publications include a chapter entitled “The Interweave of IFS, EMDR, and Art Therapy, co-authored with Salicia Mazero in (Davis, Fitzgerald, Jacobs and Marchand, 2022) as well as 2 chapters on trauma, neuroscience, substance use, and art therapy in Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addictions and Trauma (Quinn, 2021).

Elizabeth Davis, MFA, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT is a board certified, state licensed art therapist with over 20 years’ experience working in the field of Creative Arts Therapy and trauma therapy. She has conducted dozens of workshops and presentations that offer practical and creative approaches to engaging and treating clients of all ages who present with complex issues. Her approach is integrative combining techniques and approaches from: Art and Expressive Therapy, EMDR Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Progressive Counting, mindfulness practices, parts work, Hypnosis, Attachment Focused Therapy, and Play Therapy. She currently serves as Director of the Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute satellite in New York.  As Director of this satellite location, Elizabeth is involved in training, research, consultation, and intensive therapy. Elizabeth is EMDR certified and a Consultant and serves as an EMDR Trainer for Trauma Institute. She is level one certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Hypnosis through ASCH, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, play therapy, sand tray, and “part work” utilizing Structural Dissociation Theory, and attachment assessment and has recently completed Level 2 training in IFS. Elizabeth has published multiple chapters in play therapy books and recently released her book EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies edited by Davis. Fitzgerald, Jacobs, and Marchand. She is the Secretary for the Creative Arts Therapies Special Interest Group for the International Society on Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD).