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Containment: A Therapeutic Metaphor for Therapeutic Process

2 CE: APA or APT -- This session explores psychological containment, a core concept in all therapy, especially expressive therapies. Containment helps individuals manage trauma and grief by safely holding emotions and memories. From early childhood, people create boundaries and coping strategies to protect themselves, but these can also limit emotional growth and distort perceptions. Relying solely on talk therapy may reinforce defenses and block healing. By combining existential and narrative therapies with developmental psychology, clinicians can understand how silence, boundaries, and "cover stories" shield vulnerability. Expressive and play therapies support clients in safely exploring trauma at their own pace. These creative approaches help externalize experiences, validate self-protection, and build healthier coping mechanisms and relationships. This session offers key insights and examples for using miniature objects to represent and process containment in therapy.

CourseBy Dr. Dee Preston-Dillon

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Expressive and Play Therapy: An Overview of Purpose and Competency

2 CE: APA or APT -- This introductory session in a series on expressive therapies explores how creative approaches can support clients who struggle with traditional talk therapy. Dr. Preston-Dillon explains how expressive methods help access unspoken trauma, process grief, and begin healing. Therapists are encouraged to think flexibly and creatively, much like scientists or archaeologists working with fragmented data. The course highlights essential therapist competencies such as imagination, presence, and adaptability. It also stresses the importance of therapists engaging in expressive practices themselves before applying them in clinical work with children, adolescents, and adults.

CourseBy Dr. Dee Preston-Dillon

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Introduction to Group Therapy with Expressive Arts

2 CE: APA and APT - This video is a basic introduction to group therapy when using creative, expressive arts such as drama therapy, play therapy, music, movement, and poetry. Therapies. It is a standalone course and a preface to live sessions, where students can demonstrate creative group processes. The course presents core ideas, therapist competencies, and client benefits. The theoretical lens to understand and respond is grounded in existential, developmental, and narrative psychotherapies.

CourseBy Dr. Dee Preston-Dillon

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Puppets: Allies with Tender Hearts and Healing Voices

2 CE: APA and APT -- This two-part video course explores the theory and practice of using puppets in play therapy. The first section connects therapeutic principles with practical applications, while the second demonstrates puppet work with Mariam Qahtani. Participants will learn how puppets can serve as allies in therapy, offering clients a safe and imaginative way to express emotions, explore trauma, and re-author their life stories. Adaptable across the lifespan, puppets open new possibilities for dialogue, humor, and healing. The course highlights practical skills for selecting, creating, and animating puppets, and introduces Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis as a lens for deepening therapeutic engagement.

CourseBy Dr. Dee Preston-Dillon

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The House: Open-Ended Guided Imagination in Play and Expressive Therapy

3 CE: APA and APT -- The House: Open-Ended Guided Imagination in Play and Expressive Therapy introduces a gentle, client-led approach to therapeutic imagination. Using a miniature house as a metaphor and tool, therapists invite—not direct—clients to explore early memories, reclaim personal truth, and discover hope. Rooted in safety and agency, this process honors silence, pacing, and permission. Clients choose how to engage, populate the narrative with their meaning, and reflect on what they find. Through symbolic discovery and imaginative exploration, clients are supported in re-authoring their stories and reconnecting with their authentic selves.

CourseBy Dr. Dee Preston-Dillon

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