EBAT's Creative Art Therapists offer on-site or virtual arts-based trainings, professional development, and employee wellness workshops for various types of professionals. All of our trainings and workshops are arts-based and highly experiential. We will come to your facility in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. If you are outside of our area, we have virtual options as well.
For Teens or Adults Interested in a Career in Art Therapy:
• Introduction to Art Therapy
For Mental Health Clinicians
• Therapeutic Art Making in Clinical Practice for Non-Art Therapists
• Arts-Based Interventions for Integration into DBT Treatment
• Art Making for Clinician Self-Care and Processing Clinical Work with Clients
For Educators
• Trauma-Informed Practices & Social Emotional Learning (For K-12 Educators)
• Creating a Trauma-Informed School (For School Administrators)
• Therapeutic Arts & Social Emotional Learning in Art Education (For K-12 Arts Educators)
• Art Making for Educator Self-Care and Processing Vicarious Trauma in the Educational Environment (For All School Staff)
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Includes all materials & supplies to use during training (in-person)
In-person and Virtual Options
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Are you a mental health clinician interested in learning how to ethically incorporate artmaking into your clinical work as a non-art therapist? What may be difficult for our clients to express in words can become more accessible when they are given the opportunity to express themselves through a creative art form. Artmaking can serve as a bottom-up, somatic process that can help our clients communicate in a way that may feel safer for them. Although you will not become an Art Therapist after this training, you will be able to incorporate art making activities with your clients in individual or group settings that will help you build rapport and deepen the therapeutic process and relationship. In this training you will learn the history of art therapy and some of the psychology behind the art making process, be presented with case examples, and get the hands-on experience of learning a few therapeutic art-making directives and actually get to create the artworks yourself! If attending in person, all art materials will be provided. If attending virtually, participants will be sent a supply list to purchase their own materials.
Learning Objectives:
• Identify and describe the role of artmaking as a theoretically grounded clinical intervention.
• State the difference between “art therapy” and “therapeutic artmaking”.
• Identify when certain art materials are appropriate for clients based on presenting issues.
• Identify arts-based treatment goals for clients based on the Expressive Therapies Continuum.
• Learn and experience 3-4 arts-based interventions appropriate for use with varied clinical populations.
Facilitated by Tonia Herrero, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, ATCS
Licensed & Board-Certified Art Therapist, Certified Art Therapy Supervisor and Owner of East Bay Art Therapy
Saturday, September 27th, 2025
12:00-3:00pm
Hybrid: Oakland Office & Zoom Options
(If you are local, in-person is highly encouraged)
Cost: $150 per person
Student Rate: $125 per person
This training is for:
• LMFT, LPCC, LCSW, LEP, PPSC, and Psychologists (Associates included)
• Other Creative Arts Therapists such a Drama, Music, Dance/Movement, and Expressive Arts Therapists
• Graduate Students currently enrolled in any Clinical Masters Program
• Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
• School Counselors / Guidance Counselors
• Other Allied Mental Health Professionals
• Art Therapists looking to brush up on their skills
Please note, EBAT is not (yet) an approved CE provider.
Please note, you will not become an art therapist or be able to practice art therapy after this training.
To sign up, click the button below to send us a message or email Tonia directly at Tonia@eastbayarttherapy.com
A Better Way Inc
"As someone who struggles with expressing how I am feeling, I learned how impactful art can be on creating and maintaining a healthy mental health." - Workshop Participant
"I appreciated the therapeutic nature of transforming my inner thoughts to visual pieces which allowed me to approach my issues from another angle." - Workshop Participant
"The deconstructing of my original piece and then changing it to something different was impactful. I did feel a little lighter and like I have relieved some of my emotions." - Workshop Participant
"Focusing on the process of art making and not the end result, helped me to let go of my perfectionism." - Workshop Participants
"I have never thought to use art for self-care, but the workshop was soothing and healing to me. I can use art for my self-care because creating something has been helping me mentally." - Workshop Participant
"I found it fascinating to hear how each person interpreted the prompts, as well as what emotions surfaced and about their process of execution." - Workshop Participant
East Bay Art Therapy has provided trainings to the following community partners:
A Better Way Inc.
Bay Area Mental Health
The City of Berkeley
East Side Union High School District
Home Rise SF
Mentis Napa
National Student Leadership Conference
Oakland Public Education Fund
Oakland Unified School District
PAX Therapy and Family Services
Peralta Colleges
Santa Clara County Office of Education
Serene Pathways Counseling
Solano County Office of Education
Please contact us with any questions or to schedule a free consultation.
55 Santa Clara Ave, Suite 220, Oakland, California 94610
(510) 373-9932 Fax: (510) 902-7640 Contact@EastBayArtTherapy.com Link to Client Portal: https://eastbayarttherapy.clientsecure.me (For Existing Clients Only)
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