The COVID-19 pandemic has many mental health providers working virtually through telehealth services. A year later, many professionals struggle to find new ways to engage clients during a virtual session. Therapist burnout can add to the ongoing pressure felt by many professionals providing therapeutic services online. Adding creative art techniques can bolster therapeutic rapport and connection to deepen the healing experience of traditional talk therapy.  

Join us in a unique 2-hour experiential and interactive workshop where you will learn to use creative interventions in a virtual therapy session.  Attendees will be actively engaged and will leave the workshop with creative techniques that can be applied and modified across diagnoses, populations, ages, and situations. Participants will gain hands-on experience with a variety of creative activities for assessment, rapport building, exploring emotions to help their clients to heal while also inducing creativity in the therapist.

(Trainer, Mary L. Affee, Ed.D, LCSW, CTP, RPT-S, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Connecticut. Mary has extensive clinical experience in trauma informed practice and earned an award of excellence from the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in 2014. She is a frequent guest speaker locally and nationally, and the owner and Clinical Director at Horizon Integrated Wellness Group, PLLC, a private practice that specializes in expressive therapies for children, teens, families, and adults. Mary is also a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and a Holistic Health Coach. Mary earned her Ed.D in Organizational Leadership in Education from Gardner-Webb University. Mary earned her MSW from Fordham University. Mary also earned a second master's in educational leadership from Gardner-Webb University. She is Licensed School Administrator and has spent more than 12 years in public education serving as a School Social Worker.)