Center for Healthy Sex presents a lecture by Pamela Hayes: "Healing Through Imagery: Art Therapy for Survivors of Sexual Trauma"
"The Sex Experts" is a monthly professional lectures series for sex therapists and specialists to workshop and refine new material that they've been working with in an informal setting before their peers. Any particular statements expressed herein represent the views of the presenter(s) only, but not necessarily the perspective of Center for Healthy Sex (CHS). With this lecture series, CHS intends to explore important issues and encourage conversation within the therapeutic community, as well as provide a platform to emerging voices.
Lecture Description:
Do you have clients with a history of sexual trauma? Chances are you often have hit a wall during treatment, because verbally exploring these issues can be so triggering and scary. Art Therapy is an extremely effective addition/alternative to talk therapy. Encouraging our clients to examine their feelings through the creative process is less threatening and gets to the subconscious in a manner that talking just cannot access.
Join us as Pamela Hayes, Art Therapist, ATR-BC, MFT presents on working with survivors of sexual trauma. She will be addressing topics such as:
• How sexual trauma and sexual manipulation interferes with our daily lives and our self esteem.
• Concrete interventions for treating survivors of sexual abuse.
• Clinical issues specific to sexual abuse and how it affects our personal and sexual lives as teenagers and adults.
• Case studies of clients with a sexual abuse history, and example of art interventions for this population.
• Resources for implementing Art Therapy as an alternative form of treatment.
Pamela M. Hayes, MFT, ATR-BC is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of California and a Registered and Board Certified Art Therapist with the American Art Therapy Association (AATA). Her specialties include: alcohol and drug addictions, relationship and parenting, depression and anxiety, grief, gender identity and sexuality, foster care and adoption issues. She is also a court certified Sexual Abuse Evaluator and trained in Hypnotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT).
Ms. Hayes has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in New York, NY and Otis/Parsons in Los Angeles, CA and a Graduate Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and Art Therapy from The Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA
Ms. Hayes is a noted speaker and educator. She taught art therapy courses at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), graduate psychology classes at The Chicago School for Professional Psychology and lectures throughout the United States. She has written several books and produced several DVDs on Art Therapy. She stars in the video podcast, "3 Minute Art Therapy", and was recently featured on "The Science of Happiness" as the expert Art Therapist.
Center for Healthy Sex (CHS) is a community therapy center in Los Angeles that specializes in the treatment of sexual dysfunction, sexual anorexia, porn addiction, sex addiction, and love addiction. Clients participate in the diverse programs, online courses and social services offered at Center for Healthy Sex - ranging from weekly support groups, couples sex therapy, and the 11-day Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) to online classes, free lectures and podcasts. Center for Healthy Sex was co-founded by Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CST-S, CSAT-S, and Douglas Evans in 2005. Their stated mission is to offer men, women, and couples a safe place to receive professional psychotherapy to resolve shame, guilt, deception, or other barriers to healthy eroticism.
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