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Expressive Therapies Continuum consulting & training for ALL expressive therapists

schematic drawing of the Expressive Therapies Continuum, based on the original by Vija Lusebrink in 1990

As an art, dance/movement, drama, or music therapist, guiding your clients toward better outcomes is your top priority. The Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) is a model that can help you create therapeutic shifts in a client’s capacity for integrating.

Quality, researched, expert information and support are available to assist you in developing fluency with this outcome-informed framework for case conceptualization and clinical decision making in the provision of individualized treatment.

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More about the Expressive Therapies Continuum

Megan VanMeter, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, LMHC, LPC-AT/S

Hello! I’m a first-generation Expressive Therapies Continuum student who completed formal study and supervision with Drs. Vija Lusebrink and Sandra (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn, art therapy pioneers and co-creators of the ETC, while earning my master’s degree in art therapy at the University of Louisville. For the last dozen years or so I’ve been giving ETC presentations and workshops to help art therapists understand the the principles of this model, though there’s so much more information to share, so many more art therapists to reach, and so many other expressive therapists to bring into the circle.

The expressive therapies are mental health’s original embodied, experiential, implicit, integrative professions. Accordingly, the Expressive Therapies Continuum describes the relationships between physical, emotional, and intellectual aspects of the mental image formation process and the shift between nonconsciousness and consciousness. As a developmentally grounded, pantheoretical framework for individualized, outcome-informed treatment, the ETC serves as a model for integrating a client’s mental world and is of particular relevance to clinicians whose graduate educational process prioritized the nonverbal over the verbal (i.e., expressive therapists).

From one expressive therapist to another, I’m offering you a labor-of-love Expressive Therapies Continuum bibliography to support you in leveling up your knowledge of this framework through information from vetted sources. This document has also been divided into generational sections so you can follow the transmission of ideas from Drs. Lusebrink and (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn to their direct descendants.  Please enter your email address in the form below to receive the bibliography as well as periodic ETC news, such as announcements about upcoming presentations and workshops, additions to the bibliography, and maybe even a few pointers here and there.

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Meet the Co-creators of the Expressive Therapies Continuum

  • Vija Lusebrink, pioneer art therapist and co-creator of the Expressive Therapies Continuum, in 2016

    Vija Lusebrink, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM

    3 interrelated levels of information processing in the development of mental imagery: (1) physical, (2) emotional, & (3) intellectual

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  • Sandra (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn, pioneer art therapist and co-creator of the Expressive Therapies Continuum, circa 2016

    Sandra (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn, PhD, ATR-BC, LPAT

    3 interdependent variables that influence client output in the art therapy process: (1) task complexity, (2) task structure, & (3) media properties

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