Ellen Horovitz – 2-Day Experiential Workshop: Yoga & Art Therapy Interventions for Anxiety and Mood Disorders

Outline

Art Therapy & Yoga Therapy

• The psychotherapy behind art therapy and yoga therapy
• Streamlining your reports using healthcare apps in treatment
• Techniques for mood regulation (Sample: Breath of Joy)

Physical and Psychological Assessment

• The Morris-Payne Assessment and its purpose (interactive)
• Self-Pain Assessment for patients (interactive handout)
• Genogram Analytics app (interactive and video)
• BetterMind app (interactive)
• (Case presentation of 22-year-old suicidal female using Apps)
• Art Therapy Assessment (CATA, KFD, etc.)
• Chair Yoga Techniques for Physically Challenged

Create a Safe Space for Client and Therapist: Safe Boundaries, Touch and Ethics

• Establishing Confidentiality
• Permission to modify, stop, redirect
• Safe attention to the breath
• Ritual of Invitation
• Attention to Environment
• Therapeutic Attitude and Body Language

Clinical Applications of Combining Art Therapy and Yoga Therapy Techniques to Build New Neuropathways

• Psychosocial versus physical issues – starting with the body
• Understanding the body from a physical and emotional platform
• Current research in the field of art therapy, yoga therapy and mental health

Mood Disorders

• Videos:
• Bipolar child (11-year old male and his mother)
• ADD 11-year old child and mother

Case studies

• 18-year-old Bipolar, adolescent (addiction disorder) and family)
• 23-year-old suicidal female

Physiological Dysfunction

• Videos
• 65-year-old female stroke survivor
• 64-year-old female sexual abuse survivor

Case studies:

• 78-year-old depressed male and his wife: Couples’ therapy
• 10-year-old ADHD (child custody case) and his family

Experiential Component: Yoga Therapy Techniques for Anxiety, OCD and PTSD

• Warm-up, techniques:
• Breathing and meditation techniques for mood management
  • Lift depressed mood
  • Calm an anxious mood
• Sequencing: Counter poses, benefits, and modifications of each pose
• Sound, breath and visual imagery to address both depression and anxiety
• Yoga therapy strategies to incorporate: Body awareness, imagery
• Reduce rumination and negative self-talk

Experiential Component: Art Therapy Techniques for OD, PTSD & Physical Challenges

• Understand the development stages of art
• Media selection
• Warning signs in artwork
• Reduce anxiety (mandalas, safe places)
• Discharge anger (straws)
• Physically challenged
• Mindful doodling
• Using fibers to quell OCD and PTSD
• Worry dolls

Combining Yoga Therapy & Art Therapy Techniques and Beyond

• Journaling
• Combing mantras and postures
• Collaborative art making
• Family yoga therapy & art therapy techniques
• Partner yoga therapy exercises
• The importance of recapping
• Assigning apps in between sessions
• Sequence Wiz Yoga App
• Assigning homework to increase emotional and physical regulation in between sessions
• Smartline: HIPAA compliant formats for distributing homework and texting

Physiological and Psychological Effects of Incorporating Yoga Therapy and Art Therapy

• Priming the brain using yoga and art
• Elevation of mood
• Dissolving chronic tension held in the body
• Decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety
• Complementing talk therapy with through somatic practice and mindful engagement
• Release of repressed emotions stored in the body
• Increased ability to self-regulate mood and cognition
• Ethical implications of using these modalities and its limitations in your practice