Understanding and Effectively Utilizing Experiential Therapy: A Mindfulness and Trauma Sensitive Approach to Extending Talk Therapy

· Oxford University Press
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Experiential Therapy provides hands-on, engaged, holistic experiences aimed at exploring, better understanding, and resolving clinical issues. The methodology includes guided activities, games, mental puzzles, time in nature, and physical challenges. The resulting experience gives rise to words, thoughts, feelings, and future actions that a client might not have found through traditional talk therapy alone. Understanding and Effectively Utilizing Experiential Therapy gives practical advice and skills to enable new or seasoned clinicians to create their own Experiential Therapy practice. Through didactic presentation of basic concepts, concrete description of techniques, and numerous illustrative clinical examples, the book guides readers to become proficient clinicians in Experiential Therapy. The book emphasizes knowledge and skills for supporting diverse clients across a variety of identities to successfully engage in these non-traditional clinical modalities to increase well-being and resilience and promote recovery and growth after trauma.

About the author

Julie Anne Laser, PhD, MSW, LCSW is a professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. She teaches classes in Experiential Therapy, Resilience, Human Trafficking, Military Families, Research, and School Social Work Interventions. Her clinical expertise is in Experiential Therapy, Resilience, PTSD and trauma focused therapy, parenting issues, child and adolescent healthy development, couples therapy, adolescent substance abuse disorders, working with human trafficking victims/survivors, working with military families, grief work, well-being and resilience throughout the life cycle, and school social work. She is the founder of Experiential Therapy for ALL, LLC. Nicole Nicotera, PhD, MSW, LCSW is a professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. She is also a certified mindfulness teacher and a registered yoga teacher and has been trained to facilitate portable and low ropes courses. She teaches mixed methods research, clinical interviewing skills, and mind-body-spirit connections in social work practice. Her research focuses on promoting health and well-being across the life span, mind-body-spirit practices as pathways to well-being, and issues of unearned privilege and oppression in social work practice, education and research. Her clinical practice experience included work with children and families, the use of art, play and sand tray therapies and work with seriously emotionally and behaviorally challenged children and their families.

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