TR31 - Beyond Words: Art Therapy Interventions for Empowering Survivors of Crime and Abuse (NY)
Recorded On: 10/26/2025
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Description:
This presentation explores the role of art therapy in facilitating the recovery
of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, particularly in the context of a
rape crisis center. The case studies will highlight how art therapy along with
EMDR therapy complements traditional victim services such as counseling and
advocacy.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will gain practical insights into how rape crisis centers function and
can provide services within every local community.
- Participants will examine the use of art in trauma therapy in three different ways,
and how integrating with EMDR can impact the process.
- Participants will compare art making of three different clients with a variety of
skills and artistic developments.
Session is worth 1 CE Credit
Shirin Mazdeyasna
MA, ATR-BC, LCAT
Shirin Mazdeyasna, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT is an Iranian artist, a board certified and registered Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. As a certified rape crisis counselor, she offers trauma therapy to survivors of crime and prolonged abuse in the Upper Hudson Valley, NY. Shirin received her MA in Art Therapy from New York University (2021) and has subsequently been trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, and is IFS informed. Her work with Iranian women on sexuality under the influences of social, cultural, and family impacts through the sensible approach of art therapy was published in the Art Therapy Journal of the American Art Therapy Association in 2023.
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