Improving Client Outcomes: Selflessness, Self-care, and the Relationship Between Creativity and Therapist Efficacy
December 14, 2024 / 9:15-11:15 AM Pacific Standard Time
What if someone told you your outcomes in therapy mirror your outcomes in life?
What if you could learn strategies for creating micro shifts in your own nervous system to enrich your capacity for attuning to clients and improving outcomes?
Learn how the Expressive Therapies Continuum/Life Enrichment Model can support you as you give light to clients and guide them through uncertain times
You wish the world would stop spinning so fast
Times are uncertain, and you’re supposed to help others find emotional security while the ground is shifting beneath your feet. How do you experience your own feelings and find the bandwidth to create relational resonance with clients while your internal world is having trouble matching the speed of what’s going on in your external world?
You’re looking for something to support you in burning bright and delivering good outcomes
You look around and see other therapists just like you, soldiering on and burning the candle at both ends to give light in the darkness. Graduate school didn’t teach you much about this part of being a mental health professional, but you’ve been told to practice “self-care” to ensure you can deliver good outcomes to clients. You know there’s a relationship between how you show up in sessions and how clients show up in sessions and so you continue to look for something that’ll keep you burning bright.
My name is Megan, and I can help you create integration and internal attachment
I’m a therapist too, and I support clinicians as they learn to understand themselves as agents of change in a client’s journey. That means looking at the connection between selflessness, self-care, outcomes, and creativity. I use the Expressive Therapies Continuum/Life Enrichment Model to offer light to helping professionals and spark their ability to initiate micro shifts in their own nervous systems for the purpose of creating integration and internal attachment—so they can show up in sessions with distressed people and help clients create these things as well.
Are you ready to create better outcomes for yourself and the clients you support?
If the events of life find you struggling to burn bright while giving light to a fast-spinning world in need, if your own integration and internal attachment are influencing client outcomes in ways that make you wonder, please join me for a two-hour live webinar and learn how you can create better outcomes for yourself and those you serve. We’ll explore surprisingly simple but impactful ways to enrich your daily experiences and incorporate strategies for varying the kinds of information your nervous system processes so you don’t habituate to your “coping-as-usual” methods. The times we live in are anything but usual; don’t you—and the clients you support—deserve the extraordinary?
Investment: $40.00 USD
Learning Objectives: Attendees will be able to
describe the relationship between person-of-the-therapist issues and client outcomes.
define the differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, and secondary traumatic stress.
identify at least one individual area of strength and at least one individual area of challenge related to maintaining an integrated nervous system and internal attachment in clinical work.
initiate the development of a plan for creating nervous system micro shifts that address individual challenges to integration and internal attachment.
specify the large-scale brain networks associated with creativity.
name a model of creativity that parallels the therapeutic process and a model that supports integration and internal attachment for helping professionals.
CECs/CEUs: 2.0 hours (Note: at this time continuing education credits for presentations offered through Megan VanMeter PLLC are only available for individuals who hold a marriage & family therapy, professional counseling, or social work license through the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. Please see the “Continuing Education” section below for more information.)
Do you wish you had more energy for sharing your light with others in times like these?
Hope to see you there!
More information about the webinar
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Megan VanMeter
LPC (AZ), LMHC (IN), LPC-AT/S (TX), ATR-BCMegan is licensed by the counseling boards in the U.S. states of Arizona, Indiana, and Texas, and she also holds board-certification status through the Art Therapy Credentials Board. She has worked as an art therapist in behavioral health, correctional, educational, medical, and social services settings and now draws upon these experiences in her online private practice. Megan earned her master’s degree in art therapy with a specialization in grief and medical counseling from the University of Louisville, where she studied under Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) co-creators, Drs. Vija Lusebrink and Sandra (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn. These art therapy pioneers trained her in their ahead-of-its-time, nervous system-oriented, outcome-informed framework as a basis for assessment, treatment planning, intervention, progress monitoring, and case conceptualization.
She has served on professional boards and committees at local, regional, and national levels within the U.S. A scholar at heart, Megan enjoys doing research, giving presentations, and writing about the Expressive Therapies Continuum. She is hopeful that a new generation of art and expressive therapists will have the opportunity to learn the ETC via methods similar to the ones her professors used. Megan is cultivating a community of ETC enthusiasts and provides ETC supervision and webinars to help others develop appreciation for both the basics and the nuances of this important framework. See https://www.meganvanmeter.com/for-expressive-therapists for more information.
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At this time continuing education credits for presentations offered through Megan VanMeter PLLC are only available for individuals who hold a marriage & family therapy, professional counseling, or social work license through the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. An application will be made for continuing ed provider status through a national (U.S.) entity, and this entails the submission of materials from previously run educational sessions to prove that Megan VanMeter PLLC is familiar with the organization's requirements.
The current webinar being offered will serve this purpose. In the meantime it is hoped that you will see the value in these Expressive Therapies Continuum educational sessions.
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