A body-focused, trauma-informed art therapy that will appeal to art therapists, somatic experiencing practitioners, bodyworkers, artists, and mental health professionals
CORNELIA ELBRECHT is founder and director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy based in Australia. She holds degrees in fine arts and art education in addition to her extensive postgraduate training in various art therapies, Jungian analytical psychology, bioenergetics, Gestalt therapy, bodywork, martial arts, and somatic experiencing. She teaches sensorimotor art therapy throughout Australia and around the world.
"Cornelia Elbrecht’s newest book offers an indispensable guide
to help our clients overcome challenges, particularly our younger
clients or community members who are hesitant to engage in more
traditional 'talk' therapy modalities. This integrative,
sensorimotor-based art therapy modality offers collaborative
tools to awaken insight and intuition; foster focus, calm,
resilience, and connection; and facilitate healing and integrate
mind, brain, and body."
—Bonnie Goldstein, PhD, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute,
Boulder, Colorado, and Lifespan Psychological Center, Los
Angeles
"Cornelia’s book is a much welcome and significant contribution to
this field.… She generously shares her wealth of experience: theory
and descriptions of practical exercises are well integrated and
together with case examples make the book lively and engaging."
—Val Huet, PhD, chief executive officer of the British
Association of Art Therapists
"To read this book is to watch a master at work.…
Cornelia Elbrecht charts new territory in
neurobiologically-informed trauma treatment. Her decades of
experience as a sensorimotor art therapist are rooted in the
understanding that no psychological process can be experienced
separately from the body. Illumined by deeply moving case studies,
this handbook is a must-read for expressive therapists, trauma
treatment specialists, and holistic practitioners. The author’s
wisdom, experience and inspiration shine through on every
page."
—Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATR, REAT, director of Creative
Journal Expressive Arts Certification Training and author
of The Power of Your Other Hand and Recovery of Your
Inner Child
"It is revitalizing to read this contemporary and provocative text
that sensitively addresses the complexity of trauma and trauma
healing. This pivotal text is an essential must-have as it will
most certainly progress the discipline and discourse on trauma
healing in profound ways."
—Ronald P.M.H. Lay, MA, AThR, ATR-BC, art therapist,
supervisor, and MA art therapy program leader, LASALLE College of
the Arts, Singapore
“Follow the footprints of a master into the realm of psychological
healing. A must-read for anyone interested in practicing art
therapy.”
—Monica Wong, PsyD, faculty, Hong Kong Institute for
Counseling Professionals
"This wonderfully useful and inspiring book takes as its foundation
the idea that guided drawing can be curative.… It is the
Somatic Experiencing of the art therapy world.…"
—Jean Bennett. Deputy Programme Leader of the BA (Hons)
Creative Expressive Therapies program and Senior Lecturer in MA Art
Therapy at the University of Derby, UK
"Cornelia Elbrecht’s book draws the reader’s attention to an
understanding of how line, shape, form, colour and movement in art
making can have dynamic impacts on the client who has experienced
trauma. This text contributes a unique perspective to the
literature on art, healing, and trauma."
—Patricia Fenner, PhD, senior lecturer in art therapy masters
program, La Trobe University School of Psychology and
Public Health, Australia
“This accessible and practical book weaves together a wealth of
information about ways of working with creative processes and
bodily awareness to provide new possibilities of recovery for those
affected by trauma and emotional issues. It provides a valuable
resource of ideas and theoretical rationale suitable for all levels
of experience, from those just embarking on their therapeutic
journey, to highly experienced practitioners.”
—Amanda Levey, BA, MAAT, ATHR, registered psychologist, program
leader of arts therapy at
the Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, New Zealand
“This book is a wonderful merging of depth psychology and
contemporary neuroscience theory. The author illustrates the
often-neglected truth that the brain is a part of the body.
Overall, a significant step forward toward conceptualizing art
therapy as work of the body as well as the mind.”
—Christopher M. Belkofer, PhD, ATR, LPC, director of the graduate
art therapy program at
Mount Mary University
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