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Trauma Informed Creative Arts Therapy Program (CE Credit Registration)

· May 7, 2026 ·

Participants of Lucy Barbera’s Trauma-Informed Creative Art Therapy Workshop Program can register on this webpage for an NBCC, CAMFT approved CE credit certificate through Antioch University for 30 CE credits.

Click here for more information and to register for the full program.

“Trauma is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering.”
– Peter Levine, PhD

DATES:
September 19th, October 10th & 17th, November 7th & 21st, and December 12th, 2026
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm ET (1:00 pm – 2:00 pm lunch break) Program participants must complete 30 hours to receive certificate.

HYBRID Facilitation: LIVE in PERSON in Kingston, NY and simultaneously over ZOOM

This unique program was designed to assist helping professionals in treating complex trauma, using a multi-modal creative arts approach for integration and healing. The program provides helping professionals instruction on HOW to immediately apply creative methods, within the context of their practice with diverse populations and WHEN to utilize the Creative Arts Therapies when working with individuals and/or groups, using the following modalities: visual arts, creative writing, movement, music, and the dramatic arts, safely without re-traumatization, within the Window of Time-Tolerance-Reconsolidation.

The TRAUMA-INFORMED Creative Arts Therapy program is open to mental health professionals, human-service providers, teaching artists, and educators who want to understand the neuroscience of trauma and the vital role the creative arts therapies play in mitigating the negative effects of trauma.

WHAT: The Trauma- Informed Creative Arts Therapy Program consists of 30 Training hours and 6 (built-in hours for one make-up day, should that be necessary for any reason.

WHERE: This Program will be conducted face-to-face in the Creative Arts Therapy Studio, in Kingston, New York & via ZOOM simultaneously!

PRICE:
Training | Click here to register
Payment can be made in 2 installments: one half to hold your space and the second half is due on the first day of the program).
Cost includes: All ART SUPPLIES (mailed to you if you are not attending in person)

CE Credits through Antioch University | $35 | Click “Add to Cart” on this page. Registration for CE credits will remain open until Sunday, December 13th, 2026.
If you have already registered for the training, you can request a Continuing Education certificate through Antioch University by clicking “Add to Cart” on this page.

Instructor

Lucy Barbera

PhD, LCAT

Lucy Barbera, PhD, LCAT, is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, whose clinical work spans the medical, psychiatric, and special education settings, as a Creative Arts Therapist, Art Teacher, and Special Education Principal. For over twenty years, Dr. Barbera has served on the faculty of The Humanistic Multicultural Education Graduate Program, at SUNY, New Paltz, where she developed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Expressive Arts Therapy and Expressive Arts Leadership & Social Justice. Dr. Barbera is the Founder of the Trauma-Informed Creative Arts Therapy Certificate Program, at U Albany’s School of Social Welfare and an Associate Faculty Member of The Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy Program, founded by Dr. Natalie Rogers. Dr. Barbera lectures widely on the healing power of the arts, and curates exhibitions of patient/client expressive art, bringing awareness of the healing power of the arts to the community. Dr. Barbera maintains a private practice in Creative Arts Therapy, using a trauma-informed approach to creative arts therapies.

Hearts of Service: A Caregiver Connection Conference

· May 5, 2026 ·

April 30th, 2026: Please see below for a special update about this conference

A special place of connection, insight and inspiration. For caregivers to find their place.

Thank you so much for your interest in the Hearts of Service: A Caregiver Connection Conference. We are excited to share that this event is evolving to better meet the needs of our community.
In listening to our partners, participants, and the professionals we serve, we recognize the importance of increased access, flexibility, and sustained engagement. In response, this event will now be delivered as a virtual event series, with options to engage through a single session or a series of connected learning opportunities.

What does this mean?

A shift to a digital format means that we will not be gathering in person on Saturday, May 16th at the Antioch University Yellow Springs campus. This shift allows us to broaden participation, deepen impact over time, and create a more accessible pathway for caregivers and professionals balancing complex schedules and responsibilities.

Where can I learn more about the new format?

Specific dates & event information is forthcoming. Updates will be shared on the Blue Star Families website:

https://bluestarfam.org/chapters/dayton/ and https://continuinged.antioch.edu/

What resources are available to me now?

Blue Star Families has several events designed to support military families and professionals working alongside them. We encourage you to explore these opportunities as well, by visiting:

https://bluestarfam.org/chapters/dayton/ and https://www.facebook.com/OHBSF/

We look forward to continuing this important work with you in a format designed to support real-world application and ongoing connection.

Sponsored by Blue Star Families of Dayton & Southwestern Ohio, and The Coalition for the Common Good

Pivot Points: Mastering Professional and Life Transitions

· May 5, 2026 ·

This event is currently full. However, we invite interested participants to join the event waitlist. Please add to cart and check out to be added to the waitlist.

Pivot Points: Mastering Professional and Life Transitions, is a series of monthly 90-minute interactive Zoom sessions with the aim to explore personal and professional transformations. Facilitated by Drs. Amy Rutstein-Riley and Diane Richard-Allerdyce, this series creates space and opportunity to dive deeply into the transformative power of peer and relational mentoring and to engage co-learning, self-exploration, and testing new ideas about your next life or career change. Together we’ll explore new professional interests and develop strategies for pivoting to the next professional stage or sector of practice. Inspired by requests for mentorship on such issues from students and alums, this series invites you to explore topics that may include transitions and leadership identity, forging a new professional path, resilience, self-understanding, and reinvention, among others, to be determined collaboratively with the group participants.

Dates:
May 7th
June 4th
June 25th

All PhD in Leadership and Change (PhDLC), Doctor of Education in Educational and Professional Practice (EdD), and PhD in Environmental Studies (PhDES) alumni are encouraged to participate, with the understanding that a shared commitment to continuous participation is crucial for the peer-mentorship model. The group will be capped at 20, ensuring a focused and engaging experience for all participants.

We listened to the alumni that answered the Fall 2025 Alumni Survey and their request for more engagement opportunities and professional support. As a result, registration for this virtual gathering is complimentary. In lieu of a fee, we ask that you consider making a gift to the Antioch University Scholarship Fund. Your contribution directly supports the student scholarships and social justice initiatives we will be discussing. By choosing to give, you aren’t just attending an event; you are investing in the mission that brings us together.
Please contact Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Leslee Creighton ([email protected]), with questions.

Instructors

Amy Rutstein-Riley

Amy Rutstein-Riley, PhD, MPH is a highly collaborative leader, seasoned educator, and interdisciplinary scholar. Her current research activities focus on Women’s Leadership in Higher Education, Trauma-informed Leadership, and girls’ and emerging adult women’s development. Prior to joining the Graduate School of Leadership and Change, for the past eighteen years, she has served in a number of roles at Lesley University, including Director of the PhD Specialization in Adult Learning and Development, Dean of the Faculty, Chair of the PhD in Education Studies, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, and, most recently, Associate Provost of Academic Affairs. As an Associate Professor of Sociology, Amy taught undergraduate and graduate courses in a wide range of topics, including Health Care and Society; Race, Class, and Gender; Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Qualitative Research Methods; Body Image; and Ways of Knowing. In the Graduate School of Education, Amy taught courses in qualitative research, adult learning and development, and dissertation seminars. She has mentored many students on the path to completing their PhDs. Her own academic training includes an MPH in Public Health, Epidemiology, and Social and Behavioral Sciences from Boston University’s School of Public Health, and a PhD in Educational Studies, with a specialization in Sociology and Women’s Health, from Lesley University.

Diane Richard-Allerdyce

Diane Richard-Allerdyce, PhD, comes to Antioch University from the PhD program in Interdisciplinary Studies at Union Institute & University, where she taught from 2008 through 2023 and served as Associate Dean and Chair of Humanities & Culture. In 2001, Diane co-founded the Toussaint L’Ouverture High School for Arts & Social Justice, a Florida charter school serving mostly immigrant students from the Caribbean, and served as its Chief Academic Officer for twenty-one years, until its closing in 2022. She also developed and directed Teaching by Heart, a teacher-training program in Haiti, where she traveled frequently from 2009 through 2019. Diane was trained as a poetry therapy facilitator through the National Association for Poetry Therapy, for which she is a past president as well as a longtime member. She is an anti-bias facilitator within the Anti-Defamation League’s “A World of Difference” program. Diane is the author of a scholarly book on the writer Anaïs Nin (Northern Illinois University Press, 1998), as well as several scholarly articles and chapters, most recently on the intersection of psychoanalytical theory with somaesthetic philosophy. Her creative publications, in addition to several individual poems, include a chapbook, Whatever It Is I Was Giving Up (Pudding House, 2007), and a collection of poetry and prose, House of Aching Beauty (EditionsPerleDesAntilles, 2012). Her story “The Gift” appeared in the North American Review (Fall 2019: 304.4): 43-50). (It was inspired, in part, by Wallace Stegner’s “Goin’ to Town”; an interview about her creative process appears at https://northamericanreview.org/open-space/conversation-diane-allerdyce-discusses-her-story-gift-her-partner-rory-spearing ). Her short story “Kochma” appeared in Stories that Need to be Told 2022: A TulipTree Anthology; it was also first-place winner in the UK-based National Association of Writers and Groups (NAWG)’s 2022 Open Competition for Fiction and was republished with permission in The Write Path 2022, NAWG’s Anthology of Award-Winning Writing. Diane lives in Boynton Beach, Florida, with her husband, Rory. She loves teaching yoga, playing the French horn, hosting writing groups, and visiting her kids and grandkids in Asheville, North Carolina, and Sunnyside, New York.

When the Screen Isn’t Enough: Crisis Response in Digital Clinical Supervision

· April 27, 2026 ·

As telehealth and hybrid care models continue to expand, clinical supervisors are increasingly responsible for guiding supervisees through high-risk client situations without being physically present. Crisis moments such as suicidality, threats of harm, or acute psychological decompensation expose the limitations of digital supervision and require supervisors to adapt quickly, think systemically, and respond with both clinical and ethical precision.

This training equips counseling supervisors to navigating crisis response within digital supervision contexts. Participants will explore how distance, technology, and role boundaries impact real-time decision-making, risk assessment, and intervention. Emphasis is placed on actionable strategies, including structured crisis response frameworks, real-time supervision techniques, and ethical considerations related to liability, documentation, and jurisdiction. Through applied case examples, attendees will strengthen their ability to support supervisees effectively during high-stakes clinical moments even when the screen creates distance.

Learning Goals

Analyze how digital supervision environments alter risk assessment, communication, and intervention during client crisis situations.
Apply a structured crisis response framework to guide supervisees through high-risk clinical scenarios in telehealth settings.
Integrate ethical and legal considerations into digital supervision practices, including documentation, emergency planning, and supervisor liability.

Instructor

Dr. Ali Corey

Dr. Ali Corey is a counselor educator, clinician, and leadership consultant with extensive experience in training mental health
professionals and organizational leaders. She holds a doctorate in counseling and serves as a graduate professor, where she teaches
research, clinical practice, and leadership development in counselor education programs. Her professional focus lies at the intersection of trauma-informed care, organizational leadership, and equity-driven practices.

Dr. Corey has worked with educational institutions, clinical training programs, and community mental health organizations to foster trauma-informed leadership approaches that strengthen organizational culture, reduce burnout, and enhance client outcomes. Her scholarship and teaching emphasize strengths-based, relational leadership practices that integrate both clinical knowledge and
evidence-based leadership theory.

Participants in her sessions benefit from her ability to bridge clinical insight with practical leadership strategies, ensuring that complex research is translated into actionable skills for real-world application. With her combined background as a clinician, educator, and leadership trainer, Dr. Corey provides an engaging, research-informed, and practice-oriented perspective on what it means to lead
mental health organizations through a trauma-informed lens.

Dreams, Duty, and Decisions: Counseling Military Spouses on Self Care

· April 23, 2026 ·

Military spouses often carry invisible burdens—balancing caregiving, relocation, and constant adaptation while quietly setting aside their own goals and identity needs. For clinicians, supporting these clients requires a nuanced understanding of how chronic role strain, shifting family systems, and identity disruption intersect to produce burnout.

This 90-minute professional development session equips counselors with tools to identify the psychosocial stressors most common among military spouses, evaluate existing interventions for effectiveness, and design practical, individualized action plans that foster resilience and self-redefinition. Through case-based discussion and reflection, participants will deepen their capacity to help clients reclaim agency, reframe purpose, and integrate self-care into the rhythms of military life.

Learning Goals

Identify common psychosocial stressors and role expectations that contribute to burnout and identity disruption in military spouses.
Evaluate the effectiveness of existing clinical approaches for supporting military spouses experiencing burnout or identity loss.
Design a brief clinical action plan incorporating at least one intervention to reduce burnout and promote resilience in a military spouse client case.

Instructor

Cecily Moore

LPC-MHSP, LMHC

Dr. Moore is very excited to be a part of the AUNE counseling department. Currently, Dr. Moore lives in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, with her spouse and two children. Dr. Moore is a military spouse and owns an online counseling practice working with Black professional mothers.

Dr. Moore specializes in addressing the SBW narrative, depression, career-related stressors, career trauma, and perinatal mental health concerns. Dr. Moore is trained in EMDR, play therapy, solution-focused therapy, and perinatal mental health treatment protocols. Dr. Moore loves to read and considers herself a lifelong learner.