59 min

SS8. Relapse Prevention | Special Series on Trauma Response with Nicole Porter Davis The Creative Psychotherapist

    • Entrepreneurship

Emerald Sketch A.R.T. Specializing in early childhood, acute assessment, trauma treatment, family  development and community outreach, Nicole Porter Davis is noted for her immediate  response in Newtown, CT initiating art therapy services following the horrifying  massacre at Sandy Hook School. She was invited to Director Child Therapy for the  Sandy Hook Healing Project days after the tragedy. Ms. Davis later established the  Emerald Sketch, LLC employing an art therapy response team of independent clinicians  bridging the gap for trauma services first for Newtown, CT.
Now she is the founding Director of Emerald Sketch A.R.T., Inc. a non-profit designed to  help mobilize clinicians anywhere in the world set up sustainable Creative Arts therapy  services immediately after any horrifying trauma. Her current focus has been on the  American migrant child crisis training practitioners as well as mobilizing Art therapy  response for the traumatized children of Brooklyn. Nicole recently co-authored the first  trauma response ‘Manual” for The Red Pencil, an international humanitarian  organization providing Creative Arts therapies to the global community.
In addition to her clinical work, Nicole's latest Creative work was the development of An  American Nightmare, a solo performance that debuted off broadway in NYC, July 2019.  Her Performance Art experience began at a very young age. She co-wrote and  performed music in Philadelphia asThe JillRabbits, 2005-2014. Prior to this Nicole  studied Theater Arts, Dance, Music, and Art throughout her entire childhood. She then  developed her focus into Fine Art and Psychology during her undergraduate studies.  She maintains a handful of private clients in Brooklyn and the greater New York  community, and provides online clinical supervision and training for Creative Arts  Therapists. Thrive Global publishes her latest stories online.


Listen & Learn:


A systematic arts therapy approach to providing treatment in response to large scale trauma
The importance of choice in work with clients
Benefits of double handed scribbling techniques
Tools for anchoring the therapeutic experience
Role of a good-bye ritual
And the benefits of integrating the community in the healing process.

https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss1
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss2
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss3
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss4
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss5
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss6
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss7


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Emerald Sketch A.R.T. Specializing in early childhood, acute assessment, trauma treatment, family  development and community outreach, Nicole Porter Davis is noted for her immediate  response in Newtown, CT initiating art therapy services following the horrifying  massacre at Sandy Hook School. She was invited to Director Child Therapy for the  Sandy Hook Healing Project days after the tragedy. Ms. Davis later established the  Emerald Sketch, LLC employing an art therapy response team of independent clinicians  bridging the gap for trauma services first for Newtown, CT.
Now she is the founding Director of Emerald Sketch A.R.T., Inc. a non-profit designed to  help mobilize clinicians anywhere in the world set up sustainable Creative Arts therapy  services immediately after any horrifying trauma. Her current focus has been on the  American migrant child crisis training practitioners as well as mobilizing Art therapy  response for the traumatized children of Brooklyn. Nicole recently co-authored the first  trauma response ‘Manual” for The Red Pencil, an international humanitarian  organization providing Creative Arts therapies to the global community.
In addition to her clinical work, Nicole's latest Creative work was the development of An  American Nightmare, a solo performance that debuted off broadway in NYC, July 2019.  Her Performance Art experience began at a very young age. She co-wrote and  performed music in Philadelphia asThe JillRabbits, 2005-2014. Prior to this Nicole  studied Theater Arts, Dance, Music, and Art throughout her entire childhood. She then  developed her focus into Fine Art and Psychology during her undergraduate studies.  She maintains a handful of private clients in Brooklyn and the greater New York  community, and provides online clinical supervision and training for Creative Arts  Therapists. Thrive Global publishes her latest stories online.


Listen & Learn:


A systematic arts therapy approach to providing treatment in response to large scale trauma
The importance of choice in work with clients
Benefits of double handed scribbling techniques
Tools for anchoring the therapeutic experience
Role of a good-bye ritual
And the benefits of integrating the community in the healing process.

https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss1
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss2
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss3
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss4
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss5
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss6
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ss7


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59 min