Creative arts therapists and talk therapists alike often default to verbal communication in clinical supervision. However, incorporating art forms, even outside of one’s specialty, can deepen the supervision relationship. Hear from a panel of 3 creative arts therapists on how art, music, and dance/movement can be incorporated into supervision.
Presented by:
Akash Bhatia, MA, MT-BC, LCPC
Willow Messier, MAAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, CCLS
Jessica Young, MA, BC-DMT, LCPC, GL-CMA
Recorded on: Friday, February 24th, 2023, 9am-10am CT
Cost: $25 or $35 with 1 CEU | Groups of 5 – $125 or $175 with 1 CEU
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Meet Your Presenters:
Akash Bhatia, MA, MT-BC, LCPC is a music therapist with several years of experience working with children, teens, and adults. As a clinician at the Institute for Therapy through the Arts, he specializes in music therapy and counseling approaches that help clients feel more confident and regulated, improve their social relationships, and cope better. In addition to music therapy, Akash uses Rogerian client-centered therapy, child-centered play therapy, and relational-cultural therapy when approaching depression, anxiety, trauma and adjustment disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and ADHD, and addictions.
Willow Troy Messier, MAAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, CCLS is a Registered, Board-Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Certified Child Life Specialist. Since 2007 she has been with Lurie Children’s providing medical art therapy services to hematology/oncology patients at the bedside, in outpatient clinics, and to patients followed by the palliative care team. She developed and facilitates the medical art therapy internship program and supervises medical art therapy interns from Adler University and The School of the Art Institute.
Willow received her Master’s Degree in Art Therapy from New York University in 2004 and her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Hampshire College, in Massachusetts in 1997. She previously developed and grew the art therapy program at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai in New York City on the Upper East Side and provided art therapy, and child life services, as well as developing and hosting closed circuit TV programming for pediatric patients and their families. In addition to being an art therapist, Willow loves to make large paintings on canvas as well as creative projects in the kitchen.
Jessica Young, MA, BC-DMT, LCPC, GL-CMA is an Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago. She is the 2020 recipient of the ADTA’s President’s Award and the Excellence in Education Award. The arc of her 20 year career includes serving those who are homeless with severe and chronic mental illness, educating graduate students in DMT, and teaching undergraduates how to tend to their own and others’ joyfulness and well-being. She has facilitated over 30 peer reviewed conference presentations in DMT, clinical supervision, motivational interviewing, harm reduction, and violence prevention. Her publications focus on the therapeutic movement relationship, DMT as a strengths-based practice, bridging DMT and drama therapy, and DMT education. She maintains a private practice and provides clinical supervision.