[Self-Study] Psychedelics and Art Therapy: Bridging Two Worlds (N/NY-TA31)

Rebecca is co-founder of Creative Wellbeing Workshops which provides therapy, supervision, consultation, and training to help individuals and organizations manage stress, reduce burnout, and improve wellbeing. Creative Wellbeing Workshops is a National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) approved continuing education provider in Positive Ethics, Creativity, Art Therapy, and Positive Psychology. CWW has offices in DC and Tucson, AZ. Rebecca is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed, Registered, and Board Certified Art Therapist, and a Certified Trauma Therapist in the Instinctual Trauma Response ®. She completed the 250 hr training as a Certified Psychedelic Therapist with the Integrative Psychiatric Institute (IPI) and Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS/Lykos). Rebecca serves as adjunct faculty at the George Washington University Graduate Art Therapy Program, teaching Positive Psychology and Art Therapy, Art Therapy and Mental Illness, and Supervision.

Rebecca also served as a Wellness Specialist at the internationally renowned Miraval Spa in Arizona and a regularly featured creativity facilitator at the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts for clients affected by life-threatening illnesses and providers working with them. She was a regular trainer for Business Health Services providing professional development and training to private corporations and government agencies in the DMV area and she coordinated the Washington Adventist Hospital Expressive Therapies Department. She was awarded Clinician of the Year by the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) for outstanding contributions to art therapy for adults from diverse cultural backgrounds, her skills as a therapist, and for serving as a model of excellence in service to others. She was instrumental in developing AATA's Institute for Continuing Education and helped the Potomac Art Therapy Association and Smith Center gain NBCC provider status. She served as President of the Arizona Art Therapy Association. Rebecca's focus has been on crisis stabilization and it is through this work both personally and professionally that she has developed an appreciation for the power of the human spirit to prevail even in the darkest moments.

Specialties: trauma resolution, art therapy, psychedelic facilitation and integration, improving well-being, creativity, end-of-life issues, crisis stabilization, stress management, burnout prevention, substance abuse, codependency, affect regulation, group presentation, positive psychology, individual psychotherapy, ethics.

Amelia Laver, originally from the UK is a qualified Attorney, who later became inspired to pursue a career as an Expressive Arts Therapist, after being in a workshop with acclaimed Art Therapist, Rebecca Wilkinson. She has been working with psychedelic medicine for 3 years, facilitating 1:1 sessions with MDMA and Psilocybin mushrooms, holding workshops on micro-dosing, and utilizing Expressive Arts Therapy tools that she gained during her first year's training and internship whilst enrolled in the Masters of Expressive Arts Program. Since then she has pivoted from that program to pursue licensure to work with psychedelic medicine.

Charmaine Husum RCAT, DKATI, RTC, CT is a Professional Artist, Registered Canadian Art Therapist, Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, and Kundalini Yoga & Meditation teacher. Within her private Somatic Art Therapy Practice, Centre of the HeArt she supports clients both in person and online to move through difficult experiences from trauma, depression, anxiety, suicidality, addiction, and other mental health symptoms towards a path of transcendence and healing.

Helping people find a personalized route to healing using trauma-informed art therapy, clinical psychotherapeutic approaches, transpersonal psychology, mindfulness, yoga, and somatic counseling is the foundation of her work. Believing that true and lasting healing lives within every individual; the work she does focuses on one’s inner strength, power, and innate capacity to thrive beyond difficult experiences in life.

For the past 10 years, she has also been working to help others prepare for and Integrate the powerful experiences that take place during Altered States of Consciousness and Psychedelic Journeys. To support this, she teaches courses and workshops both online and in person around the world using Art Therapy, Dreamwork, Somatic Processes, Kundalini Meditation, and Yoga that follow the trauma-informed protocols outlined by Bessel van der Kolk and Judith Herman. They can be found at www.courses.centreoftheheart.com.