A Fresh Take on Creative Trauma Informed Work with Tweens, Teens & Adults

Therapists often find themselves sitting in the heaviness of trauma; managing memories, reducing symptoms, and helping clients survive. It's hard work!

Too often, trauma treatment focuses on what’s wrong, the triggers, the shutdowns, the dysregulation. But as creative therapists, we know that healing happens when we invite what’s right to grow.

This experiential training is for the therapist who wants more than symptom reduction. It’s for the therapist who believes in building and empowering clients of all ages.

You will learn how to use drawing prompts, visualization and image heavy card decks with older children, teens, and yes, even adults.

This is an EXPERIENTIAL CLASS. After watching case presentations with real images of artwork and card prompts, you will try out the activities yourself. Learn by experiencing the process first before taking it to your clients

☀️ Foster emotional regulation

☀️ Rebuild inner strength and identity

☀️ Support the emergence of healing narratives

This is not about minimizing pain. It is about expanding the emotional landscape so that clients can begin to feel more than just hurt.

As you learn to guide clients toward resilience and reconnection, you may find something in yourself begins to reset as well.

Whether you’re working with a withdrawn teen, an overwhelmed adult, or simply need a renewal practice for yourself, this is a space to reconnect with the healing power of imagery.

Bring a symbolic or image-based card deck and simple art supplies. We will work with what you have.

Tell Me The Details!

Friday, December 12, 2025 | 9:30AM–12:45 PM EST ($99)

Virtual: 3 Non-Contact CE (NBCC & APT) (apt requires a passing grade of 80% on exam)

In Person: Loudoun Co: 3 Contact CE (NBCC & APT)

Learning Objectives

By the end of this section, participants will be able to:

Explain how traditional trauma treatment often focuses on symptom reduction and describe the importance of incorporating strength and identity-based approaches during trauma work.

Demonstrate the use of symbolic card prompts to support client exploration of values, identity, and internal resources.

Utilize visualization techniques to facilitate right-brain engagement and post-traumatic growth.

Apply developmentally appropriate, strengths-based interventions with adults, teens, and tweens in trauma-focused sessions.

Describe how play therapy principles support empowerment, emotional integration, and imaginative engagement across developmental stages.

Assess how using creative and symbolic tools in trauma treatment can support the therapist’s emotional well-being, clinical effectiveness, and long-term engagement with challenging cases.

☀️ Who Should Attend ☀️

☀️ Play therapists and creative arts therapists

☀️ Trauma informed therapists (non-play therapists!) of tweens, teens, or adults

☀️ Counselors, social workers, psychologists

☀️ Anyone wanting fresh, right-brained tools for trauma healing and self-care

Agenda (Eastern Time)

9:30  Brain Hemisphere and Function Overview

10:30  Experiential Practice & Collaboration 

12:45  See You Next Time!