MINDFULLY CREATIVE PODCAST: EPISODE 4 “Art Therapy Unveiled”

As Creative Arts Therapies Week winds down, I wanted to share this week’s Mindfully Creative Podcast series via SJB Creative Art– In Episode 4 I chat with Sharon J. Burton about art therapy, social media, & more!

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EPISODE 4:  “Art Therapy Unveiled” Featuring  Gretchen Miller, MA, ATR-BC, ACTP Registered Board Certified Art Therapist.

Welcome to the fourth edition of the Mindfully Creative Podcast series!  This fourth episode focuses on art therapy,  and fittingly so since it is the start of Creative Arts Therapy Week!   Gretchen Miller is the featured guest for this topic, a woman who is a creative force online for promoting the field of art therapy and encouraging its use in a variety settings.

Gretchen Miller MA,  ATR-BC, ACTP is a Cleveland, Ohio based Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Certified Trauma Practitioner, and an Adjunct Professor at Ursuline College’s Counseling and Art Therapy Program. Clinically she works with at-risk children, teens, and adults often impacted by trauma and loss- using art for the intervention and management of traumatic stress., Her online art making community, 6 Degrees of Creativity, unites concepts of social networking, connecting, collaboration…

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Creative Arts Therapies Week 2017

Creative Arts Therapies Week begins today!  This week (March 12-18) is an an opportunity to celebrate and recognize the work of creative arts therapists and the membership organizations of the National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations (NCCATA), which includes:

  • Art therapists
  • Music therapists
  • Drama therapists
  • Poetry therapists
  • Dance/Movement therapists
  • Psychodrama

In honor of this special week I wanted to share a couple of resources related to my own work as an art therapist:

  • I recently updated this SlideShare presentation that I often use when speaking to high school and college students about art therapy and some of education and training required to be an art therapist:

 

To learn more about the work of creative arts therapists, additional resources, and how to locate a qualified professional in your area, please visit these NCCATA membership associations:

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