EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies

This book guides EMDR therapists in creative arts therapies to make healing safer and more accessible for patients with complex trauma.

“This book guides therapists trained in EMDR in the successful integration of the creative arts therapies to make the healing potential of EMDR safer and more accessible for patients who present with complex trauma.

Contributors from the respective fields of creative and expressive arts therapies offer their best ideas on how to combine EMDR with these therapies for maximum benefit for people from diverse backgrounds, orientations, and vulnerable populations. Chapters offer detailed case studies and images, insightful theoretical approaches, and how-to instructions to creatively enhance clinical work. Additionally, the book addresses current critical issues in the field, including the importance of an integrative and open approach when addressing cultural, racial and diversity issues, and creative interventions with clients through teletherapy.

Creative arts therapy practitioners such as art therapists, play therapists, and dance/movement therapists will find this a compelling introductory guide to EMDR.

Table of Contents

A Model for Supporting Complex Trauma Treatment Integrating the Power of Creative Arts Therapies
by Elizabeth Davis, MFA, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT

Inviting the Body, Movement, and the Creative Arts into Telehealth: A Culturally Responsive Model for Online EMDR Preparation
by Jennifer Marchand, MA, CCC, RCAT and Michelli Simpson, LMHC, BC-TMH, NCC, CDVS-I

From Trauma to Recovery: Group Work with Refugees and Displaced Youth
by Jocelyn Fitzgerald LMFT, ATR-BC

Gen Z in Crisis: Blending EMDR and Art Therapy for a More Robust Therapeutic Experience
by Sherri Jacobs, MS, LCMFT, MA, ATR

Art Therapy and EMDR: Integrating Cognitive, Somatic, and Emotional Processing for Treating Trauma
by Tally Tripp, MA, MSW, ATR-BC

The Interweave of Internal Family Systems, EMDR, and Art Therapy
by Peggy Kolodny, MA ATR-BC LCPAT and Salicia Mazero, MA, LPC, ATR, CEDS-S

Writing Therapy and EMDR
by Erin Bastow, MS, LPC, NCC

Three-Dimensional Parts of Self-Tool (3-D PoST): An Art Therapy-Based Modality in Preparation of Clients for EMDR Phase Four Reprocessing
by Hannah Rothschild, MSW, RSW, DTATI, Barbara Collins, MA, RP, RCAT, and Isabel Beland, MACP, RP, CCC

Dancing Mindfulness: Flowing Synchronicities with EMDR Therapy
by Jamie Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, LICDC-CS, REAT, RYT-500

Future Self: Developing a Felt Sense for the Future as a Resource in EMDR Preparation
by Annie Monaco, LCSW, RPT

Work in Process: Expressive Arts Therapy Solutions for EMDR Therapists
by Irene Rodriguez, MS, LMHC, REAT, CAP, CCTP, and Jamie Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, LICDC-CS, REAT, RYT-500”

—Description from publisher

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Davis, E., Fitzgerald, J., Jacobs, S., & Marchand, J. (2023). EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003156932