- The psychotherapy behind art therapy and yoga therapy
- Streamlining your reports using healthcare apps in treatment
- Techniques for mood regulation (Sample: Breath of Joy)
- 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
- Establishing Confidentiality
- Permission to modify, stop, redirect
- Safe attention to the breath
- Ritual of Invitation
- Attention to Environment
- Therapeutic Attitude and Body Language
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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



