Creative Presence: Facilitating Expressive Arts Therapy with Individuals

Course overview

An experiential, skills-based course focused on the application of expressive arts in one-on-one therapy contexts. The course emphasizes intermodal practice, ethical role clarity, and practitioner presence when working with individual clients in therapy settings. Participants will develop practical competencies in engaging clients through gentle invitations, facilitating intrapersonal intermodal processes, structuring expressive arts therapy sessions, and maintaining an attuned, responsive presence. This course supports development in the following core expressive arts therapy training domains: Intermodal expressive arts theory and practice Expressive Arts facilitation skills Therapeutic presence and attunement Ethical practice Application of expressive arts with individuals Integration of expressive arts across modalities