Art as Healing: Integrating Creative Modalities into Clinical Practice
Delivery Mode
Live Online
Date
June 16, 2026
Details
- Time: 3pm ET, 12pm PT
- Length: 90 minutes
- Continuing Education Credits (CE): 1.5
- Discounts: AU Students & Alumni: Enter code AU30 at checkout for 30% off
Description
Discover how art can become a powerful tool for emotional healing and growth. This workshop introduces clinicians to creative techniques that help clients process emotions, regulate the nervous system, and recover from trauma, while expanding the clinician’s therapeutic toolkit with hands-on, art-based strategies.
Explore how creative expression can deepen therapeutic work and enhance client healing. In this workshop, clinical mental health practitioners will learn the theory and practice behind using art as a powerful tool for emotional processing, self-expression, and trauma recovery. Grounded in neurobiological and trauma-informed frameworks, this session offers hands-on strategies, case examples, and ethical guidance for integrating art-based modalities into treatment planning to support clients navigating stress, grief, identity challenges, burnout, and chronic stress.
Learning Goals
- Describe the neurobiological and psychological mechanisms that underlie art-based healing interventions.
- Describe the neurobiological and psychological mechanisms that underlie art-based healing interventions.
- Apply at least two art-based healing techniques to support emotional processing and nervous system regulation in therapy sessions.
- Identify appropriate populations, settings, and presenting concerns for the use of art-based healing strategies.
Instructor
Cecily Moore
PhD, 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.
Continuing Education
Individuals must attend the entire event to receive continuing education credit. Partial credit is not available. Additional requirements regarding enrollment, documentation and eligibility may apply.
Continuing Education Certificates
Course Completion certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for a completed evaluation form. Individuals who successfully complete the program will receive a certificate for 1.5 continuing education credit hours. This certificate may be submitted to your state’s licensure or certification board for their consideration in meeting renewal requirements. CE credit varies from state to state. Participants are encouraged to check with their licensing board to determine if this offering qualifies for acceptance as Continuing Education credit.
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Antioch University is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for mental health professionals. Antioch University maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
Antioch University New England - Clinical Mental Health Counseling Department has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4338. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Antioch University New England - Clinical Mental Health Counseling Department is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Accommodations
To request accommodations for special needs, please email the Program Administrator at [email protected].
Terms & Conditions
Cancellations received in writing 7 days before the date of the event are entitled to a full refund. Cancellations received between 6 and 3 days before an event are entitled to a 50% refund. Cancellations 2 or less days before an event will not be eligible for a refund.