Working Well: Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Approaches

Date: Friday October 24, 2025
Time: 9:00am–12:00pm Pacific Time
Location: Online
Available CEs: 3
Facilitator: Dr. Leticia Nieto, PsyD, LMFT, TEP
Cost: $119.00

Registration Deadline: Tuesday October 21st, 2025

In this workshop we will look at principles and guidelines of trauma-informed practice through expressive arts explorations (poetry, visual art, song, movement, enactment, and more). We will emphasize conditions for PTG (post-traumatic growth) for practitioners, clients, and communities.

This is an interactive workshop, please be prepared to join and participate on screen!

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to distinguish two tactics to bring trauma-informed principles to when working with expressive arts modalities.
2. Participants will be able to formulate two elements of Post-Traumatic Growth as a reliable indicator of effective expressive arts practice.
3. Participants will be able to construct two norms for individual or group trauma-informed work

Required Materials

• Materials to write with (paper, notebook, pens, pencils)
• 2 favorite poetry books
• Access to your favorite ways to make visual images
• Space for movement & comfortable clothing

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/program in its entirety and complete an evaluation form after the workshop/program. The evaluation form is emailed from NWCEAI. 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?

• Nationally: Approved NBCC Provider for Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Social Workers (you are responsible for confirming that your organization/state will accept NBCC credits.)
• New York Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (LCATs)
• Washington State School Counselor/Teacher (OSPI) Approved by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction as a “Washington State approved clock hour offering workshop.”
• 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. 

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.