Region Five Art Works: Expressive Tools for Clinicians
Through interactive, hands-on engagement, Dr. Patricia Isis will teach participants how to implement expressive and artistic tools and interventions.
Skills learned through this training will serve to not only improve client care, but to also improve self-care and personal mental health maintenance of care providers. CEUs are available for this training.
Art Materials Needed: (Most are available at the Dollar Store)
- – Graphite Pencil with clean useable eraser
- – Notebook size plain white paper
- – Small dinner plate or circle for mandala template
- – Colored pencils and sharpener
- – Fine or Broad tipped markers/Sharpies
- – Oil pastels
- – Heavy Duty aluminum foil (cut or tear into 3 notebook size sheets)
- – Multi-Colored Pipe Cleaners
Dr. Patricia Isis of Miami Art Therapy has been practicing Art Psychotherapy and Mental Health Counseling in South Florida for over 40 years. She has worked in schools, hospitals, day treatment programs, substance abuse, eating disorder treatment centers and residential settings. Currently, she, offers full-time clinical art therapy services in the public schools, maintains a part-time private practice, facilitates Mindful Self-Compassion programs, and frequently presents therapeutic art/mindful doodling and mindfulness workshops locally, nationally and internationally.
Additionally, Dr. Isis became a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC)Teacher in 2017, under the direction of Drs. Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff who are the creators of the evidenced-based 8 week program. Dr. Isis completed her PhD, in the expressive therapies with an emphasis on art therapy in 2003 from the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1980, Dr. Isis attained her Masters degree in Expressive Therapies with an emphasis on Art Therapy from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.