Educational Offerings
Creative Elements is dedicated to empowering clinicians through diverse educational offerings. Our continuing education courses, invited lectures, case consultation, and counseling supervision are designed to help mental health professionals incorporate creative interventions and socioculturally-minded approaches into their practice. We believe in fostering a supportive learning environment that encourages growth and innovation, enabling clinicians to better serve their communities.
Amplify your capacity to address transdiagnostic symptoms like anxiety and agitation through music. Evidence-based music therapy techniques combined with mindfulness attitudes can be utilized to support clients coping with stress and dysregulation. Grounding techniques are far from one-size-fits-all, and leveraging the immersive qualities of music can support clients for whom more conventional mindfulness-based relaxation strategies may seem daunting at first. This interactive presentation will demonstrate several music therapy strategies that can be adapted to promote grounding in counseling practice. Gain insight into the way musical elements like tempo and volume can significantly influence physical responses like heart rate and respiratory rate. Discover a new and notable way to cope with distress. Published through the American Counseling Association CE Credit: 1.0 NBCC Hours; 0 CRCC Hours; 1.0 WA Hours; 0 APT Hours; 0 NAADAC Hours; 1 NY Hours; 0 Ethics Hours
Navigating the intersection of music therapy and mental health counseling can be both rewarding and complex. Whether you are a board-certified music therapist pursuing additional training in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, a music therapist working in mental health settings seeking support in developing counseling skills, or a student therapist exploring a counseling career pathway, supervision and consultation can provide valuable guidance and professional growth. These services offer a supportive space to explore challenges commonly faced by music therapists, including clarifying scope of practice, integrating musical and verbal therapeutic interventions, strengthening clinical conceptualization, and developing a reflexive approach to practice. Particular attention is given to self-of-the-therapist work, helping clinicians deepen self-awareness and understand how their identities, experiences, and therapeutic presence influence the clinical relationship. Through collaborative supervision and consultation, clinicians can enhance confidence, expand their counseling competencies, and cultivate an integrated, ethical, and intentional approach to mental health practice within and beyond music therapy.
Invited lectures, Consultation, and Training
Creative Elements offers invited lectures, consultation, and training focused on the integration of creative and arts-based approaches within mental health and healthcare settings. Grounded in contemporary clinical practice and interdisciplinary perspectives, presentations and consultations are tailored to the needs of mental health professionals, healthcare teams, educators, and treatment programs seeking to deepen engagement, reflection, and innovation in their work. Areas of expertise include the integration of creative interventions in counseling and psychotherapy, the use of expressive and arts-based methods to support *self-of-the-therapist* development, and strategies for fostering reflective practice among clinicians working in residential and partial hospitalization settings. Consultation is also available for creative arts therapy program development, particularly within residential eating disorder treatment, supporting organizations in building meaningful, evidence-informed creative programming. Additional topics include creative arts practices in psycho-oncology, exploring the role of creativity in supporting individuals and families navigating cancer and other serious illnesses, as well as critical and emerging perspectives at the intersection of Mad Studies and music therapy. Through the lens of **“Mad Music Therapy,”** these presentations invite dialogue around disability justice, lived experience, neurodiversity, psychiatric survivor perspectives, and more inclusive approaches to therapeutic practice. Whether through keynote presentations, workshops, staff trainings, or program consultation, Creative Elements fosters thoughtful exploration of how creativity can enhance clinical care, professional development, and systems of healing.
