Join art therapist Jamie Manko, LPCA, ARTP
Date/Time:
Thursdays beginning February 11, 2021 - March 18, 2021
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Online - You will be sent a secure link
Intended for:
Adults who desire a creative way to regulate signs and symptoms related to Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD),
ages 18 and up
Supplies:
A list will be supplied to you upon registration
Cost:
$25/week
do you...
- Have vivid flashbacks (feeling like the trauma is happening right now)?
- Find yourself fhaving intrusive thoughts or images?
- Experience chronic nightmares?
- Have intense distress at real or symbolic reminders of the trauma?
- Experience physical sensations such as pain, sweating, nausea or trembling when reminded of the trauma?
- Find yourself extremely alert or hypervigilant?
- Feel emotionally numb or cut off from your feelings?
This 6 week art therapy group will give you the tools and strategies you need to creatively manage the effects of past trauma in a supportive, non-judgemental environment.
In this group you can expect to:
- Identify and manage triggers associated with trauma
- Learn mindfulness techniques
- Develop emotion regulation skills
- Practice new ways of coping
- Experience a safe and supportive peer group
- Enter in, stay in and learn to manage uncomfortable emotions and conversations
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can benefit greatly from art therapy. Art can help heal the mind, body, and emotion. Art is an outlet when words fail. Join Jamie Manko as we safely work through the thoughts and feelings related to PTSD and learn to understand and experience them in a more appropriate way.
Due to licensing restrictions, participants must be in the South Carolina region.
