Certificate of Expressive Arts Therapy

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Virtually the Expressive Arts Therapy Certification

The Document of Expressive Arts Therapy Programme requires that participants encounter 75 hours of educational requirements and 25 hours of supervision requirements. Read more than about supervision requirements and learn about our REAT supervisors on the Supervision in Expressive Arts page.

The Institute for Artistic Mindfulness offers many online and in-person courses that run across the 75-60 minutes supplementary educational requirement in Expressive Arts Therapy set by the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA). Successful completion of your 75 hours covers the competency areas of group expressive arts therapy process, individual expressive arts therapy process, and approaches to, or styles of, Expressive Arts Therapy in practise and study, i.e., various approaches used by the applicant in integrating multi-arts in therapy.

ICM requires that the 75-hour supplementary educational requirement includes participation in at to the lowest degree one Intensive Training Program and the distance-based Process Not Perfection Book Course. ICM must disembalm that the certificate programme as a whole is not being offered for NBCC credit, merely the qualifying CE program components that are specifically advertised for NBCC credit.

Expressive Arts Therapy Curriculum

The Document of Expressive Arts Therapy requires participants to complete 75 hours of educational programming, which must include an intensive training course and the Process Not Perfection book form. Below is the recommended approach to fulfilling the requirements of the Document Of Expressive Arts Therapy program.

Step 1: Process Not perfection Book Course

  • Required for certificate track completion
  • 20 total hours, 20 CE Credit hours approved by APA and OSCMFT
  • Distance Based, Written report At Your Ain Footstep
  • Supervisory review with ICM Registered Expressive Arts Therapist
  • Ideal starting place for orientation towards certification

The Procedure Non Perfection Book Class is an ideal starting place for both those beginning the Expressive Arts certificate plan or those who acquired credit hours via previous courses, such every bit EMDR Therapy Training graduates. Y'all volition have the opportunity to select to study with your option of ICM REAT supervisor for this course, and they tin help guide and orient you lot to the complete process of earning your Document of Expressive Arts Therapy with ICM.

Pace 2: Select your intensive preparation Program

At least 1 of the post-obit intensive programs is required as office of your certificate hours.

Expressive Arts Therapy Module A
Principles of Mindfulness, Motion, and the Expressive Arts

The training itself is 18 hours. An boosted 7 hours are awarded upon successful completion of the recommended reading (Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation) and a follow-upward paper to be reviewed by a supervising REAT. In this independent portion of the study, yous are asked to reverberate on your personal process with engaging in the integrated expressive/creative arts components in each of the core chapters and discuss multi-modal applications for using the Dancing Mindfulness practice along with 2-3 other expressive arts in a clinical setting. Additionally, you are eligible for separate basic certification as a Dancing Mindfulness Facilitator after completion of this alive module. A list of currently scheduled trainings and information on the distance training can exist found at dancingmindfulness.com.

Expressive Arts Therapy Module B
Trauma-Focused Approaches to Meditation, Breath Piece of work, and Yoga-Based Somatic Movement in Clinical Settings

The grooming itself is eighteen.5 hours and must be taken in person or as an interactive online training every bit bachelor. An additional half dozen.5 hours may exist awarded upon successful completion of the recommended reading (list of choices provided at the training) and a follow-up newspaper to exist reviewed past a supervising REAT. In this contained portion of the study, you are asked to reverberate on your personal process with engaging in the exercises offered in your chosen book and talk over multi-modal applications for using practices explored at the training forth with 2-3 other expressive arts in a clinical setting.

Expressive Arts Therapy Module C
EMDR Therapy Training

The training is broken up into Parts 1 and 2, each of which is 21 hours and must exist taken in person.  For more than data about EMDR training come across our EMDR Therapy Grooming page.

Completion of your EMDR Therapy Grooming program requires an additional x hours of consultation with an ICM EMDR Consultant. You may be able to count these consultation hours towards Expressive Arts Supervision hours when working with a REAT Supervisor who is also an EMDR Consultant. Brand sure to check with your Supervisor!

*The trainings themselves are 18 CE credit hours. You can accept these courses for 18 hours only, or you lot can earn up to 25 by writing a Supplementary Newspaper. The requirements for the paper are listed beneath.

If you cull EMDR Therapy Training as your intensive, yous must follow upward with at least one Retreat programme from the lists below.

Step 3: Complete Your Remaining Hours with Any of These offerings

Based on your previous selections your will need to complete between 13 to 37 additional educational hours to meet the document requirements. This may be accomplished by participation and successful completion of whatsoever of the post-obit offerings. Our use of the term hours in this section refers to hours that can exist counted towards your total 75 educational hours for the Document of Expressive Arts Therapy. Some of these courses practice come with accompanying CE credit hours that tin be used towards your professional person license, although you will demand to click on each individual offering for more details.

Non-Compulsory Intensives

Expressive Arts Therapy Module D

xvi total hours

In addition to attendance at the retreat held every jump, participants must also complete a supplementary paper or submission demonstrating how yous utilized iii or more expressive art forms during the retreat and how y'all plan to implement your learning in clinical settings. Standard CE credit hours available for certain retreat sessions. For more data click Here.

Expressive Arts Therapy Module Due east

sixteen full hours

In addition to attendance at the retreat held betwixt Thanksgiving and Christmas, participants must too complete a supplementary paper or submission demonstrating how you utilized three or more than expressive art forms during the retreat and how you plan to implement your learning in clinical settings. ​For more information click HERE.

Distance Based Courses

This is Dr. Marich's original Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapy class that many people have for an overview of the fundamentals. This version of the course, taught in 2021, is available on-demand through PESI, LLC.  For more information and to annals, delight click Hither.

 Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation

12 total hours

A book course sponsored past Curious.com with supplementary reaction piece required for submission. Start course hither >>>

*Annotation: This course tin just be counted if you did non use the Dancing Mindfulness Facilitator Training Intensive (Expressive Arts Therapy Module A) toward your hours.

Hours vary by grade.

ICM's online altitude learning platform offers a variety of options that fulfill the education requirements for the Certificate of Expressive Arts Therapy. View courses here >>>

You may count up to ii courses or retreats/pilgrimages offered by Abbey of the Arts, an expressive arts based ministry and program operated past our associate Christine Valters Paintner, Ph.D., REACE. The Abbey of the Arts offers a variety of programming, both online (courses, virtual retreats) and in-person (pilgrimages, retreats). Depending on the length of the course, retreat, or pilgrimage, you can be awarded 8-xvi hours for each program you select (contact usa for specific details on transfer of hours).

Delight visit the Abbey website to scan your options. A brief reflection newspaper submitted to your REAT supervisor discussing clinical applications of the content you lot studied in the form is required for the hours to count.

Live Online or In-Person Courses

Any conference presentation you may accept attended with Dr. Marich on Dancing Mindfulness, artistic mindfulness, or trauma-informed interventions where the expressive arts were implemented (consult with your supervisor for courses that authorize and exact transfer of hours). Click HERE for a full calendar of public appearances and conferences by Dr. Marich.

You may request to take up to 12 hours of coursework from another expressive arts pedagogy program transferred in to this certificate program for the completion of your 75 hours. All requests for transfers volition be individually evaluated.

*For those enrolled in Dancing Mindfulness Facilitator Training or Yoga For Clinicians.*

The purpose of supplemental reaction papers (which can include other submissions of expressive media such as video, audio, or visual art forms) is to appraise your power to analyze the information received during a class and demonstrate your ability to implement this learning in a clinical environment.

The overall learning objectives for the supplemental reaction papers on which yous volition be evaluated are:

  1. To draw 3 key points of learning from the primary experience (e.g., attending an intensive or retreat; reading a book or taking an approved supplemental form)—lower levels of Blossom'south taxonomy
  2. To written report your personal experience with working through at least iii or more exercises described in the supplementary reading for an intensive, or in the case of a book form, the book itself. Emphasis expected to be placed on the multi-art nature of your participation with these exercises—lower levels of Bloom'due south taxonomy
  3. To introduce a brainstorm of how you would apply the concepts that you learned in the main class or reading alongside 3 other expressive arts forms; this objective is especially important if the intensive or class you took (or the volume yous read) focused primarily on one expressive art form—lower/eye levels of Bloom'southward taxonomy
  4. To propose a plan for implementing elements of your begin into a clinical setting in concert with show-based clinical modalities (eastward.1000., DBT, CBT, experiential, Gestalt, EMDR therapy) in both private and group settings. This objective can exist met using step-by-step instructions for implementation, similar to a handout y'all may give a group—higher levels of Bloom'south taxonomy
  5. To recommend, in conclusion, at least two ideas of how you lot would integrate other expressive arts forms into an intensive grooming feel (in the case of Dancing Mindfulness & Yoga for Clinicians); for books or other courses, you may also make recommendations for how the author or course leader could have integrated expressive arts forms they didn't consider or how they may have emphasized integration of the expressive arts more robustly– higher levels of Blossom's taxonomy

Length of reaction papers/projects: Generally your piece of work is evaluated in terms of quality rather than quantity; as long as the objectives are beingness met in a mode that reflects the Flower'southward taxonomy expectation, yous have "passed" that objective. All objectives must be met/passed for the credit to be granted. If there is a problem with the quality as assessed by Dr. Marich, specific feedback will be given and you volition be given a chance to recreate/resubmit.

We are enlightened that navigating this collage of options can be confusing. Please feel free to reach out to us if you take specific questions.

Supervision Requirements

  • 25 Hours of Individual Supervision

In addition to 75 education hours, the Certificate of Expressive Arts Therapy also requires 200 clinical hours guided past 25 hours of private supervision. Program participants must complete their supervision hours with an ICM Expressive Arts Supervisor. More details and links for supervision registration and payment are available at the link below.

Continuing Education

Many of the courses offered in the Certificate of Expressive Arts Therapy program are eligible for continuing education. For more data nigh CE credit hours offered please check the private event pages, attainable through the Expressive Arts Therapy training schedule here.

CE approvals vary for unlike components of the program. For more than information on CE credit approvals, delight meet Continuing Instruction Approvals.

View the Select Calendar of Expressive Arts Therapy Programs

A quick reference of live trainings held past Dr. Jamie Marich or affiliates that can be counted towards the certification in Expressive Arts Therapy.

Eligibility for the Certificate of Expressive Arts Therapy Program

A masters or doctoral degree

A masters or doctoral caste in a clinical mental health-related field (east.g., counseling, marriage & family therapy, social piece of work, psychology) is required. Although information technology is not required, it is strongly preferred that you are in active clinical practice and working with clients.

Main's level students

Master's level students may be permitted to accept the form if The Institute for Artistic Mindfulness receives a letter of the alphabet of recommendation from a faculty member ahead of time. Requests and messages of recommendation tin can be sent to:  back up@instituteforcreativemindfulness.com

Medical Professionals

Medical professionals (east.g., nurses, physicians) are also eligible to take the course if they possess a clinical master'south or doctorate degree and if their master specialty is within mental health.

Chemic dependency professionals

Chemic dependency professionals with a principal's caste or higher may also be eligible to have the course. Pastoral/Christian counselors, and art/music/trip the light fantastic toe therapists may as well be eligible if they tin can testify sufficient clinical content on their Primary's level transcripts. In these three specialty scenarios, prior approval is required from the Institute for Creative Mindfulness. In cases of these special circumstances, all cases must be made in writing with supporting documentation directly to The Institute for Artistic Mindfulness. You tin can send your request to: support@instituteforcreativemindfulness.com

Diverseness & Social Justice Scholarship

The Institute for Artistic Mindfulness offers professional clinicians who are actively working to promote social justice in their circles of work and influence. Anyone in financial need who envisions a compelling use for our trainings to promote the value of social justice may utilise.

Frequently Asked Questions

No, you do not need to complete the curriculum in any item order. However, we strongly encourage trainees start with the Process Not Perfection Book Form because information technology offers an opportunity to connect with an ICM REAT Supervisor who will help guide and orient you through the procedure of successfully completing the curriculum. Upon registering for the book course, a REAT supervisor (most likely Irene Rodriguez) will be in touch with you via email to go over details on the balance of the program and will gear up a time to talk if needed. If you are already a educatee in one of our other programs (due east.g., EMDR Therapy grooming, Dancing Mindfulness, Yoga for Clinicians), delight contact Irene Rodriguez directly to review program requirements: irene@mindfuljourneycenter.com.

While you are non eligible for the document of expressive arts therapy, we take trainees of all backgrounds attending expressive arts courses such as Dancing Mindfulness Facilitator Training, and our Expressive Arts Retreats.

Our courses may additionally count toward's the International Expressive Arts (IEATA's) Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator (REACE) credential.

We do not offer a "lump sum" pricing for the program unless an organization or a person approaches us straight to enquire for a quote because they are being funded past an outside source. It is easiest for yous, if paying individually, to "pay every bit y'all go" for the various required courses, intensives, and supervision fees. The fees of these courses can depend on what you choose. On average, people terminate up spending about $3500.00 for the program.

Our program allows you to consummate any diverseness of major clinical trainings are part of your educational requirements: the full EMDRIA-approved EMDR Therapy Preparation (which we teach with attention to mindfulness and the expressive arts), the Dancing Mindfulness Facilitator Training, or Yoga for Clinicians. All of these programs are designed with a strong trauma-focused angle. Thus, completing the Document of Expressive Arts Therapy with the Institute for Artistic Mindfulness equips yous with skills for trauma-focused exercise across only the expressive arts. Many of our students also report liking the autonomy and independence to "design your own program" as you go.

Yes. With all of our major intensives and retreats moving over to online options due to COVID-19, the unabridged program tin can at present exist completely remotely.

If you are not familiar with using travel sites for booking, please contact the training provider directly at the site where you book. If y'all are stuck in this process, please contact the states.

Each module of the Document for Expressive Arts Therapy curriculum may take its own CE credit hours associated with information technology. Delight run across the Select Agenda of Expressive Arts for which CE credit hours utilize to your training. For more data on continuing education approvals, please click Here.