Trauma and Creative Arts in Therapy: A Person-Centred Perspective
A workshop exploring why a person-centred approach to using creative arts in therapy when working with trauma
In collaboration with Fiona Gregory and Onlinevents tis workshop is part of a series of events exploring challenges and benefits of person-centred practice when working with traumatised people.
In this workshop we will explore a person-centred approach to using creative arts in therapy, and why this approach can be so beneficial when working with trauma. Participants will be invited to engage with a simple creative arts exercise which they can safely use with clients.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Explore person-centred approaches to therapeutic use of creative arts.
- Develop understanding of the therapeutic benefits of creative arts when working with trauma.
- Develop understanding of how to safely integrate creative arts into person-centred practice.
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Ani de la Prida, MA, MBACP is a psychotherapist, creative arts counsellor, supervisor and author who brings a person-centred and pluralistic philosophy to her work. She is passionate about creative approaches to therapy with over twenty years’ experience working with children, young people, adults and groups in a wide variety of settings.
Ani is co-founder of the Association for Person Centred Creative Arts (APCCA ). She teaches at APCCA where she is course director, and occasionally lectures at the University of East London, and Roehampton University.
She currently has a small private practice and her research interest is in creative arts and the use of digital media in therapy. You can read A Qualitative Study of Experiences of Digital Technology Through Using an iPad in Therapy here.
She is currently writing Person Centred Creative Arts Therapy: contemporary theory and practice (expected 2024) for Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Her recent publications include The Pluralistic Therapy Primer, What Works in Counselling and Psychotherapy Relationships, and Demedicalised counselling and psychotherapy with children and young people in People not Pathology.
Upcoming work includes;
(2023) Person-Centred Creative Arts Therapies in The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy & Counselling. (Sage)