The Clinic
Deepen your practice at The Clinic, a series of specialized workshops designed to hone your skills and capacity as a practitioner. Inspired by the focused training methods used in sports clinics, these sessions are facilitated by seasoned practitioners who offer teaching on their modality of focus, bring these concepts to life with a live session with a client volunteer, and hold space for integration through honest discussion and group consultation.
Each clinic will focus on an approach to the work, providing you with advanced techniques, practical tools, and new perspectives to integrate into your work. Whether you’re looking to refine your approach, deepen your capacity to drop into the human experience of this work, or renew your imagination for what’s possible in the in between, these clinics offer a unique opportunity for growth and connection.
These learning spaces are human, messy, playful, and inspiring. We launched this series in our 2024-25 learning canopy and we’re so excited to return with season two!
This clinic, facilitated by Pamela Krueger, is designed for those curious about bringing expressive arts-based therapeutic approaches (e.g., utilizing a variety of creative modalities, like; movement and dance, drama, creative writing, sound and music, and image-making) into therapy with competency and ethically without the extensive clinical training required to obtain the Registered Expressive Arts Therapy (“REAT”) credential from the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (the credentialing body). Expressive arts therapy is by nature decolonizing and supportive of multicultural honoring and humility, rooted in liberation psychology and sociocultural relational theory, inviting every part of one’s identity to be present in the therapy room.
Through this workshop, participants will be able to:
Understand the key principles and practices that are the foundation of expressive arts (intermodal and multimodal creative expressions) therapy
Identify “cues” from clients that support offering emerging experiments with specific expressive modalities
Engage, experientially, with multiple expressive arts processes, laying the foundation for practice-based experience and further creative inquiry
What to expect:
Expert-led clinics with a focus on real-time observation and practical application
In-depth exploration of specialized topics
Opportunities for discussion, case studies, and peer learning
A supportive environment for professional growth and skill enhancementFormat
Format
This is a hybrid offering. You have the option to join us in person at our space in Pioneer Square or virtually via Zoom. Please let us know how you intend to gather with us when you register. Folks who RSVP will receive a note with building and/or Zoom access the evening prior to the workshop.
Exchange
General Registration — $40
with 2 CEUs — $60
Collective Members — Registration and 2 CEUs are included in our monthly membership fee. Please RSVP using the link below.
Authorization
Continuing education units have been authorized and approved by the NASW Washington State Chapter. Our provider #1975-507. Licensed social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors are eligible.
Pamela Krueger
Expressive Arts Psychotherapist, LMHC, LMFT, REAT, Clinical Supervisor
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Pamela is an expressive arts psychotherapist and group process facilitator with an embodied and creative focus in supporting what is wanting to emerge in the unfolding of life. Experienced in cultivating an awareness of somatic information and the natural curiosity that can be brought forward through the productive powers of play and creative inquiry, she engages joyfully in holding the challenges and obstacles to desired movement and becoming, with a lightness that is also deeply grounded in honoring each individual wherever they are.
She has been a member of Shelterwood since May of 2024 and was previously Clinical Program Director at Cancer Lifeline, a nonprofit offering fee-free counseling, support groups, and creative process experiences, to people whose lives are affected by cancer.