About this course

Learning Objectives

• Explain how interoceptive processing can benefit individuals suffering from eating disorders and trauma.
• Utilize one art therapy technique with rationale that can be adapted into attendee’s own practice.
• Utilize one dance movement therapy technique with rationale that can be adapted into attendee’s own practice.

Learning Levels

• Intermediate

Course Instructor(s)

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  Laura Rickles, MAAT, LCAT

  Laura Rickles, LCAT, ATR-BC, is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Clinical Training Specialist at The Renfrew Center. With over eight years of experience in direct patient care, Laura has provided therapeutic support as both a primary therapist and art therapist across residential, day treatment, and outpatient settings in New York and Florida. Her clinical expertise and creative approach to therapy inform her current role, where she contributes to the development and delivery of training programs that support best practices in eating disorder treatment.

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  Susan Kleinman, MA, BC-DMT, NCC, CEDS

  The Renfrew Center of Florida

  Susan Kleinman, BC-DMT, NCC, CEDS, Dance/movement therapist at The Renfrew Center of Florida is a trustee of the Marian Chace Foundation, past president of the American Dance Therapy Association and past chair of The National Coalition for Creative Arts Therapies. She is co-author of chapters on body/mind methods in the textbook Bridging the Research-Practice Gap in the Treatment of Eating Disorders and the first Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance, and is the recipient of the American Dance Therapy Association's 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work is featured in the documentary entitled Expressing Disorder: Journey to Recovery.

References

• Lusebrink, V. B., & Hinz, L. D. (2021). The expressive therapies continuum as a framework in the treatment of trauma. In Art therapy, trauma, and neuroscience (pp. 42-66). Routledge.
• Thompson-Brenner, H., Smith, M., Brooks, G. E., Berman, R., Kaloudis, A., Espel-Huynh, H., ... & Boswell, J. (2021). The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity: An Adaptation of the Unified Protocol, Therapist Guide. Oxford University Press.
• Syper, A., Keitel, M., Polovsky, D. M., & Sha, W. (2023). Dance/movement therapy for individuals with eating disorders: A phenomenological approach. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 45(2), 211-237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10465-023-09379-4
• Andrew Seubert, N. C. C., & Virdi, P. (Eds.). (2024). Trauma-informed approaches to eating disorders. Springer Publishing Company.
• Schore, A. (2022). Right brain-to-right brain psychotherapy: recent scientific and clinical advances. Annals of General Psychiatry, 21(1), 46.
• Brown, T. A., Vanzhula, I. A., Reilly, E. E., Levinson, C. A., Berner, L. A., Krueger, A., ... & Wierenga, C. E. (2020). Body mistrust bridges interoceptive awareness and eating disorder symptoms. Journal of abnormal psychology, 129(5), 445. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000516
• Barca, L., & Pezzulo, G. (2020). Keep your interoceptive streams under control: An active inference perspective on anorexia nervosa. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 20(2), 427-440.