About this live event
Participants will explore the conceptual and practical distinction in between therapeutic arts and art therapy, two terms that are frequently conflicted, but differ significantly in scope, training requirements and clinical application. This distinction is essential for psychological practice: clinicians must understand the boundaries of their own competence versus treatment offered by a credentialed art therapist. The workshop grounds, this discussion in current understanding of clinician burnout, compassion, fatigue, and vicarious trauma, situating therapeutic arts within the broader literature on mindfulness based stress, reduction, and present moment awareness through guided experience exercises. Participants will directly practice techniques they can integrate into their own self care, routines, gaining firsthand insight into how creative process can support nervous system regulation and sustained attention.
From an educational standpoint, this training address is a recognized gap in clinical training programs: while clinicians are routinely, talked to recommend self-care and mindfulness practices to clients, they receive comparatively little structured instruction and maintaining their own psychological resilience. By positioning therapeutic arts as a professional development and self-care tool, which is distinct from but an informed portion of the clinical discipline of our therapy, this workshop equipped clinicians with practical strategies for personal sustainability while reinforcing sound ethical boundaries around scope of practice.
