Expressive pArts Work:
Part 2: Diving Deeper with Complex Trauma Healing with SoulPages® Art Journaling and Internal Family Systems Therapy

Date: Saturday November 8, 2025
Time: 9:00am–5:00pm Pacific Time (with a 1 hour lunch break)
Location: Online
PREREQUISITE: Expressive pArts Work Part 1 Workshop
Available CEs: 7
Facilitator: Theresa Soltzberg, LMFT
Cost: $233.00 

Registration Deadline: Wednesday November 5, 2025

Note: To sign up for this course, you must first complete the prerequisite training: Part 1 An Introduction to Supporting Complex Trauma Healing with SoulPages® Art Journaling and IFS Therapy -or- previously completed Visual Journaling & Internal Family Systems: Supporting Complex Trauma Using Expressive Arts prior to September 1, 2025. 

In this advanced course, participants will continue to learn and apply techniques to support complex trauma clients with the PArts Work Approach, which combines expressive arts therapy with Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. Through experiential exercises, participants will continue to learn how expressive art journaling combined with internal family systems supports complex trauma clients, utilizing right and left-brain integration, in addition to other benefits of right brain healing work.

Participants will dive deeper into the IFS system building on previous knowledge and learning techniques such as working with protectors who cannot unblend from a client. It will include further training for the process of how to work with therapist parts in relationship to supporting client parts, working with polarized parts, and how to work with exiles attending to the client’s system & readiness.

In this training, participants will complete an expressive arts visual art journaling spread based on the SoulPages method. This will include using guided visualization and connecting with the participant’s own system and their polarized parts. Participants will be able to express their experience through exploration using a variety of materials including collage, paints, writing, line, ephemera, layering, movement, sound and other intermodal techniques. Each step will be guided with room for self expression. No previous art experience is necessary.

Learning objectives

1. Participants will review the SoulPages method, IFS model, and neuroscience behind complex trauma healing, specific to complex trauma clients.
2. Participants will learn the importance of the self-to-part relationship and the purpose of the unblending process.
3. Participants will learn when & how to use direct access when client parts are unable to unblend.
4. Participants will learn about the process of working with polarized parts and the role of self.
5. Participants will complete an exercise focused on therapist parts to integrate learning.
6. Participants will complete a SoulPages exercise focused on polarized parts including guided visualization.
7. Participants will learn the process of unburdening exiles and the importance of further training.
8. Participants will apply the blended IFS and SoulPages therapy method to a client case/example to further understanding of how to support present and future clients.

Required Materials

• Art Journal or Watercolor paper (or any thicker paper)
• Watercolors, acrylics, inks or other paint
• Paint brushes
• Pen, waterproof pen, pencil
• Acrylic markers or sharpies
• Magazines, old books, ephemera, or printed paper, printed images, or other images
• Scissors
• Glue
• Hairdryer (optional, for faster drying)
• Substitute what you have, as long as you’re expressing yourself! If you don’t have all of the items, bring what you do have to create!

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute Cancellation & Refund Policy

Earning Continuing Education Credits

To receive a CE Certificate for completion of this workshop, you must officially register, attend the workshop in its entirety and complete an evaluation form after the workshop. The evaluation form is emailed to you by the following Friday of the workshop. After completing & submitting the evaluation form, a CE Certificate will be emailed to you within 5-7 business days.

Who is eligible to receive CEs?

• School Counselor/Teacher (OSPI) Approved by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction as a “Washington State approved clock hour offering workshop.”
• This workshop offers Continuing Education credits for Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Social Workers.
• If you are outside of Washington State, we advise that you check with your state licensing board to confirm that they accept NBCC Approved CEs. 

Theresa Soltzberg is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs and maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Continuing Education Provider #146650: Workshop meets the qualifications for 7 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. 

Northwest Creative and Expressive Arts Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0123.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7104. Programs that do no qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.