About this course

Learning Objectives

• Clarify 3 or more ways that IFS and art therapy theory complement each other to promote transformation for clients in both individual and group settings.
• Describe 4 IFS-informed art interventions used to identify parts and their relationship to each other, fostering unblending, enhancing internal dialogue and increasing self-compassion in both the clinician and the client.
• Participants will be able to describe the 6 f’s of the IFS model and how it applies in art making.

Learning Levels

• All Levels

Target Audience

Course Instructor(s)

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  Salicia Mazero, LPC, ATR, CEDS-C

  Salicia Mazero MA, LPC, ATR, CEDS-C is a licensed professional counselor, registered art therapist and a certified eating disorder specialist and supervisor practicing in St. Louis, MO. Salicia is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) and is working towards becoming a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). Over the past 10 years, Salicia has worked in two treatment centers focusing on treating eating disorders before starting her group practice, Creating Your Journey. Salicia is the founding president of networkED, an educational and networking organization for ED clinicians in St. Louis. Salicia is a professional member of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals and currently serves as a consultation to clinicians getting their CEDS. She previously served on the board of directors for the Missouri Eating Disorder Association (MOEDA). She currently sits on the advisory board of MOEDA and is a presenter for their Feed the Facts program educating students and teachers about eating disorders and prevention in the school system. She is a faculty member of the Expressive Therapies Summit and the Ferentz Institute. Salicia recently co-authored a chapter on Art Therapy, IFS and EMDR in the book EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies. She presents nationwide annually on art therapy, IFS, and eating disorder treatment.

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  Peggy Kolodny, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT

  Art Psychotherapist

  Peggy Kolodny, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT, earned her master’s in art therapy from GWU in 1982. Founder of the Art Therapy Collective in Maryland, she specializes in trauma-focused multimodal art therapy across the lifespan, holding level 2 certificates in IFS and in EMDR. She is adjunct faculty for GWU and FSU Art Therapy Graduate Programs trauma tracks and is workshop faculty for the Ferentz Institute and Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars. Currently she is Co-Chair for the EMDR Special Interest Group for the International Society on the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and recent past Chair of the Creative Art Therapists Special Interest Group. Past positions include Vice-chair of the Maryland Chapter of American Professional Society on Abuse of Children; Chairperson of Central Maryland Sexual Abuse Treatment Task Force; and President of Maryland Art Therapy Association. Past faculties include University of Maryland School of Social Work, MICA, and Goucher College. Peggy recently published several chapters in Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addictions and Trauma (Quinn, 2021) and co-authored a chapter on The Interweave of IFS, EMDR and Art Therapy in EMDR and The Creative Arts Therapies (Davis et al, 2023). She has 2 more chapters in press including Art Therapy and DID in Wiley’s Handbook of Art Therapy.

Disclosure

References

• Kolodny, P., Mazero, S. (2023). The Interweave of Internal Family Systems, EMDR, and Art Therapy. In E. Davis, J. Fitzgerald, S. Jacobs & J. Marchand (Eds.), EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies (pp.208-240). Routledge.
• Schwartz, R., & Sweezy, M. (2020). Internal family systems (2nd edition). Guilford Press.
• Kolodny, P. (2021) The Evolution of Trauma Theory and Its Relevance to Art Therapy. In P. Quinn (Ed.), Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction and Trauma (pp. 89-112). Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
• Catanzaro, J. (2024). Unburdened Eating. Bridge City Books.
• Gerge, A. (2020). What neuroscience and neurofeedback can teach psychotherapists in the fieid of complex trauma: Interoception, neuroception and the embodiment of unspeakable events in treatment of complex PTSD, dissociative disorders and childhood traumatization. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 4(3), 100164.
• Sabados, D. (2024). A path toward healing: Integrating internal family systems and art therapy. Art Therapy, 41(4), 194-202.
• Bucharová, M., Malá, A., Kantor, J., & Svobodová, Z. (2020). Arts therapies interventions and their outcomes in the treatment of eating disorders: scoping review protocol. Behavioral sciences, 10(12), 188.
• Schmitt, C. M., & Schoen, S. (2022). Interoception: A multi-sensory foundation of participation in daily life. Frontiers in neuroscience, 16, 875200.
• Pici-D’Ottavio, E. (2023). Art therapy and the Internal Family System for adolescents at a therapeutic school: A qualitative, arts-based study (Master’s capstone thesis). Lesley University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.