Expressive Arts and the Social Brain

Expressive Arts and the Social Brain

During the past decade, we have just started to learn about the effects that the expressive arts (music, movement, dance, visual art, drama, and performance) have on the brain. Some of those effects come directly from the arts’ influence on the reward circuitry in the...
What Is Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy?

What Is Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy?

Like many of my colleagues who traveled around the US and internationally to lecture pre-pandemic, I am finding myself preparing for online webinars. Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy is one of the frameworks that forms a foundation for these educational...