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The Art of Resilience: Harnessing Creative Therapies for Healing

Aug. 15, 2025

10:00 AM - 1:15 PM (EST)

Virtual Event
3 CE Credits
Discover how creative arts foster resilience and healing! Join us for a live virtual event exploring the power of creativity in overcoming stress, enhancing self-nurturing, and supporting clients. Shoshana shares her personal journey and therapeutic techniques in music, art, and writing. Don’t miss this inspiring session!
This live virtual event will share how the world of creative arts offers tools for resilience. Participants will gain insight into the role and importance of creativity in resilience and the healing process, overcoming blocks to self-nurturing through creativity, techniques from various creative modalities for reviving, recognizing creative means to nurture client spirit, enhance sense of self, and remedying the detrimental effects of stress. Creativity and the brain will be discussed.  Shoshana will share her own personal journey of discovery and rejuvenation through creativity in therapeutic uses of music, art, and writing.

This live interactive webinar is designed for behavioral health professionals, including:

Counselors

Social Workers

Psychotherapists

Marriage & Family Therapists

Psychologists

Substance Use Disorders Counselors

Case Managers

Physicians

Other Mental Health Professionals

Shoshana Averbach, LMSW, MA, MT-BC, LCAT, CDP, CCM, BCBP3, CMIP

Shoshana Averbach earned her Master of Social Work degree from Yeshiva University and a Master of Arts degree in music therapy from New York University. She is a certified practitioner of the Emotion Code, The Body Code, and Belief Code. She incorporates other energy healing and holistic modalities as well as mindfulness practices in her therapy such as visualization, Emotional Freedom Technique, Tapas Acupressure Technique, aromatherapy and more. She has worked primarily with adults and geriatrics of multicultural backgrounds for over 40 years. Shoshana aims to connect people with their soul source, inner knowing and light, for optimal physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Currently, Shoshana maintains a private practice in healing and counseling and teaches as an adjunct professor of psychology at Touro University. In January 2024, she launched her online, visual podcast, Love, Light and Wisdom, which discusses personal growth, transformation, and healing. She also presents at conferences and for educational webinars for social workers and mental health professionals. Shoshana’s healing work and approach to healing were featured in Mystic Mag online magazine, the Jewish Week newspaper, Blogtalk Radio, and other programs.  She authored articles in various publications and produced two CDs of her original healing music and songs: The Time Is Coming (2011) and I Reclaim My Heart (2015).

After this training, participants will be able to:

  • Explore interventions for patient care through the creative arts.
  • Identify creativity as a means to foster resilience and its role in healing trauma.
  • Define sources of stress that our clients may experience, such as burnout, trauma, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma, and their causes.

10:00 -10:05 am – Introduction

10:05-10:30 am –What are the creative arts therapies?, In-depth case example

10:30-11:00 am -In-depth case example cont’d

11:00-11:30 am – Brief discussion of sources of stressors our patients encounter: trauma, burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue;  Creativity as self-nurturance and resistance to creativity and nurturing oneself

11:30-11:45 am – Break

11:45-12:15 pm – Resilience and grit, Creativity and resilience, creativity and the brain

12:15-12:45 pm – Interventions for patient care using the creative arts (music, art, writing, dance)

12:45-1:05 pm  – Interventions for patient care using the creative arts (music, art, writing, dance) cont’d

1:05-1:15 pm – Q&A

Intermediate to advanced.

Registration Cost

Registration $65 | Aug. 15 | Virtual Event | 3 CE Credits | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm ET

Registration Deadline:  Aug. 15, 2025

Cancellation Policy

You may request to cancel your registration for a future credit up to 72 hours before the event’s date and time.  Cancellation requests made within 24 hours of the event date/time will not receive a transfer. When you register for an event, you agree to these terms.

A total of 3 CE credits are available.

Additional Approvals Pending.

ASWB ACE

Clinical Events, LLC, (provider # 2201) is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 11/01/2024 – 11/01/2025.

NBCC

Clinical Events, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved   Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7643 Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Clinical Events, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

NY State Board of Psychologists

Clinical Events, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0292

NY State Board of Social Workers

Clinical Events, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0828.

NY State Board of Mental Health Counselors

Clinical Events, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0329.

NJ State Board of Social Workers & Professional Counselors

New Jersey Social Work Examiners Board accepts ASWB ACE Provider credits.

New Jersey Professional Counselors Board accepts NBCC-approved CE provider credits.

All Other States

All other states accept ASWB ACE Provider credits and NBCC-approved CE provider credits. Licensees are responsible for determining whether courses meet the CE requirements in their jurisdictions. States and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for credit.

Canada Social Workers

BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, and QC accept ASWB ACE-approved provider programs to meet licensure renewal requirements.  Licensees are responsible for determining whether courses meet the CE requirements in their province. Provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for credit.

Canada Counsellors

Clinical Events is an NBCC-approved provider.  Licensees are responsible for determining whether courses meet the CE requirements in their province. Provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for credit.

Financial: Shoshana Averbach, LMSW, MA, maintains a private practice and receives a speaking honorarium from Clinical Events, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

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