TR40 - Dreaming Self into Being - Complex Trauma Survivor's Key Processes For Becoming
Recorded On: 10/26/2025
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Description:
Video: Art exhibit and poetry reading; Hear the cries of hidden, voiceless parts
of a highly functional trauma survivor, sharing her story to help herself and
others feel seen. Witness works integrating the conscious and unconscious
through, art, poetry and somatization, a clients life's work of collecting
shattered parts.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to identify 2 methods in which art exhibits can be ceated for a vulnerable client.
- Participants will be able to identify 3 ways in which an art therapist can assist the client in expressing trauma that has been hidden in a safe supportive manner.
- Participants will understand 2-6 ethical dilemas in understanding what is best for the client and self-serving for the therapist.
Session is worth 1.5 CE Credit
Lilla Ohrstrom
MA, ATR-BC
Lilla Ohrstrom, MA, ATR-BC has had her research and artwork have been published in the Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Art Therapy, Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, International Journal of Education through Art, International Journal of Education and the Arts, Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art; Art Education, Liminalities: A Performance Studies Journal and Music Therapy Perspectives. She is also a major contributor in the volume, Art for Children Experiencing Psychological Trauma: A Guide for Art Educators and School-Based Professionals. She has published two books Therapeutic Approaches in Art Education (2020) and Restorative Practices in Education through the Arts (2025).
Kathleen Marmet
MA
Kathy Marmet is trained as a lawyer and an educator but has been impaired in her ability to find vocational fulfillment until her recent blossoming as a poet and artist. Healing has been a lifetime quest and a full time occupation for more than eleven years now. In the most recent five years, she has received effective help from a team of highly qualified professionals using neurofeedback, Somatic Experiencing, bodywork, art therapy and psychedelic assisted therapy. She has participated in at least seven psychodrama workshops and has consistently found them helpful.
Marmet was born to parents who were ill-equipped to meet the needs of children. The first of her mother’s eleven full term pregnancies, her being has been marked by the effects of chronic childhood traumatization. Wounds of maternal depression during her infancy are the deepest. Self-help has been Kathy’s life-long practice. Self-expression through poetry, art and song began early.
At this point, Marmet has survived for the average U.S. span of life. Ten years ago she had the good fortune to connect with the growing body of innovative scientific and clinical work which increasingly illuminates possible paths to healing. This led to her receiving help from professionals skilled in several modalities which have proven effective in helping her nervous system learn to be more fully embodied and alive.
Marmet’s art and writings give voice to her struggle to become her self. She published her poetry collection, Freeing the Voice of a Less Than Fully-Mothered Child: Poetic Artifacts of a Healing Journey in 20205.
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