VFTS 2. Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit | Digital Art Interventions for COVID & Beyond | Kendra Carlson

Today's Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit Series Guest is Kendra Carlson, MAAT, ATR-BC. She is a Registered and Board Certified Art Therapist at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, and Adjunct Professor at Springfield College Art Therapy/Counseling Graduate Program.

Kendra’s work includes lifespan populations with a focus on adolescents and experience in chronic physical and mental illness. Developed and implements a grant-based digital art therapy program for behavioral health patients in crisis as well as hospitalized adolescents and children with co-morbidity diagnoses and trauma.

She is project leader and co-facilitator of the PRN International multi-disciplinary mental health team for Jamaica Homestead, West Indies where she leads art therapy with the Homestead students and staff for mindfulness, affect identification, community building, self-expression and coping strategies. Kendra supervises post-graduate students for art therapy registration, and instructs courses including Art Therapy & Counseling in a Digital World.

She has presented at the UN Education - Learning & Literacy Committee, Yale’s Humanities in Medicine, Yale Child Study Center, Expressive Therapies Summit, Connecticut Art Therapy Association’s Colloquium and served on its Board of Directors.

In this episode, Kendra shares about her work engaging clients using digital art therapy approaches with apps and tools accessible to all.

She will be facilitating an all day Symposium, with 5 esteemed colleagues, at the Expressive Therapies Summit titled: Creative Teletherapy Strategies & Virtual Interventions for Coping with COVID & Racial Injustice.

Resources:

Mood Meter App by Mark Brackett, PhD. http://moodmeterapp.com/

PicMonkey https://www.picmonkey.com/

Procreate https://procreate.art/

Not Mentioned, but a fun digital art tool http://bomomo.com/

Tilt Brush, Virtual Reality 3D Painting https://www.tiltbrush.com/ { I tried this tool earlier this year and I can attest to it being WONDERFUL tool! }

Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive also by Mark Brackett, PhD

All Day Symposium at the Expressive Therapies Summit NY, 2020 Creative Teletherapy Strategies & Virtual Interventions for Coping with COVID & Racial Injustice - Presented by:

Kendra Carlson, MAAT, ATR-BC, Symposium Coordinator

Christian Bellissimo, MSW, LCSW, RPT

April D. Duncan, MSW, LCSW, RPT

Scott Giacomucci, DSW, LCSW, BCD, FAAETS, PAT

Brian Jantz, MA, MT-BC, LPMT

Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, LCAT, LMHC, CMA

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