VFTS 2026-2 | Lucy Barbera | Trauma-Informed Creative Arts Therapy 

FEATURED GUESTS: Dr. Lucy Barbera, LCAT is a New York State Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Art Teacher, and School District Administrator, whose work spans the medical, psychiatric, and educational settings. Dr. Barbera served on the faculty of The Humanistic Multicultural Education Graduate Program, at the State University of New York (SUNY), at New Paltz, for twenty-three years, where she developed and taught courses in Expressive Arts in Education, Human Services, and in Social Justice Leadership.
Currently, Dr. Barbera is facilitating the Trauma-Informed Creative Arts Therapy Certificate Program for Mental Health Professionals & Educators, a post-graduate program, professional development training program, now in its fifteenth year, in collaboration with the Expressive Therapies Summit.
Dr. Barbera lectures widely and maintains a private practice in Art and Sandplay Therapy in Kingston, New York, working with children and adults with life-threatening medical conditions, teens who self-harm, or are challenged with disordered eating, addiction, death, loss, and complex trauma.
Dr. Barbera’s doctoral dissertation on the Expressive Arts and Social Justice was granted The Excellence in Scholarship Award in 2009, by the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (ETD) and her book, Expressive Arts in Teacher Education: Cultivating Social Justice Leadership, was published in 2011.
Her most recent publications include, Avatar: Masks of Hope and Healing, in Susan Ridley’s The Expressive Use of Masks Across Cultures and Healing Arts, was published by Routledge in 2024 and Joining Social Justice Teacher Education and the Expressive Arts, has just been republished in Natalie Rogers’ The Creative Connection for Groups: Person-Centered Expressive Arts for Healing and Social Change.
For Information about Dr. Barbera’s program offerings may be found on her website at:
https://www.arttherapycertificate.com/ and https://www.expressivetherapiessummit.com/ti-cat
LISTEN & LEARN:

• The benefits of intermodal processes in the treatment of trauma.
• What students in the certificate program can expect to learn.
• The relationship between trauma and imagery.
• How embracing a hybrid approach to training has allowed Dr. Barbera to reach students around the world and build a connected community.

RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:

• Web: www.arttherapycertificate.com/
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/arttherapycertificateprograms/
• Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/makingspecial
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-barbera-phd-lcat-83578b8/
• Trauma-Informed Creative Arts Therapy Certificate Program

SESSIONS AT THE SUMMIT:

• Starting April 11 through June 13th Lucy Barbera will be leading the Trauma-Informed Creative Arts Therapy Certificate Program at Creative Arts Therapy Studio in Kingston, NY & Virtually-Live-Online sign up here at www.expressivetherapiessummit.com/ti-cat
• You can attend in-person at the Creative Art Therapy Studio in Kingston, NY or attend virtually over Zoom.

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