Representatives from the Creative Arts Therapies program at Parkway Health and Wellness presented at the January, 2017 meeting of the Positive Committee. The presentation focused on what art therapy is and what services are provided at the organization.

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Creative Arts Therapies
at Parkway Health & Wellness
Michele Rattigan, MA, ATR-BC, NCC, LPC
Yasmine Awais, MAAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAT, LPC
Ellen Schelly-Hill, MMT, BC-DMT, NCC, LPC
Flossie Ierardi, MM, MT-BC, LPC

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Parkway Health and Wellness
• Parkway Health & Wellness of the Drexel University College of
Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP) serves as a site for
inter-professional collaboration across research and clinical
practice.

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Parkway Health and Wellness offerings:
• Creative Arts Therapies (art, music, and dance/movement)
• Individual, couple, and family therapies
• Nutrition
• Physical therapy
• Women’s health services (starting Jan. 2017)
• Mother Baby Connections

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Parkway Health and Wellness
Center City location:
Three Parkway Building
1601 Cherry Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: 215.553.7012
Email: CATappts@Drexel.edu

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Affordable Sliding Scale
Creative Arts Therapies and
Couples & Family Therapies do not take insurance.

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Creative Arts Therapies: Our Mission
As credentialed creative arts therapists,
our mission is to provide treatment utilizing the healing power of
the arts within the safety of a therapeutic relationship.
We honor diversity of our clients’ cultures, abilities, and values.

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Creative Arts Therapies: Our Purpose
We strive to be a resource for our clients and local community
through therapy, outreach, education, and advocacy.

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What are “Creative Arts Therapies”?
• Creative Arts Therapists are human service professionals who
use distinct arts-based methods and creative processes for the
purpose of ameliorating disability and illness and optimizing
health and wellness. Treatment outcomes include, for
example, improving communication and expression, and
increasing physical, emotional, cognitive and/or social
functioning (National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations)

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A non-verbal form of communication and expression for people of all ages and abilities
A creative way for individuals, groups, couples, and families to safely uncover and problem solve the heart of
the matter at hand
A resource for discovering strength and resilience
What is
ART THERAPY?

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Therapeutic Art Making
• Community building
• Relaxation
• Stress reduction
• Not necessarily art therapy and so does not
require an art therapist
Art Therapy (above, plus...)
• Symbolic expression for
• problem solving,
• symptom relief,
• relationship building,
• And the overall enhancement of health
& psychological well being “This is what my life is like”

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Materials in Art Therapy
Sometimes people think only about
drawing, painting, or clay; but art
therapists use lots of different materials -
even digital media and photography- to
assist their clients.
NO ARTISTIC SKILL OR TALENT
NECESSARY!
“Pain behind the eye.” Made on a computer
program by someone experiencing chronic
headaches.

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Music Therapy
“Music therapy is a reflexive
process wherein the therapist
helps the client to optimize the
client’s health, using various
facets of music experience and
the relationships formed
through them as the impetus
for change.”
--Ken Bruscia,
Defining Music Therapy, 2014

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Music Therapy
• Accesses a preserved area of health
• Provides a non-verbal means of self-
expression
• Allows control over environment
• Assists in pain management
• Addresses quality of life, spirituality,
self-esteem

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Musicality
• Intense human interest in music, evident from the early days of
life
• Humans are intensely social; music is a largely social endeavor
• Sandra Trehub, 2003 (Nature Neuroscience)
• Music child: musical self; innate responsiveness to music in
every human being
• Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy
• Musical skills develop naturally; inherent in all individuals
• Cynthia Briggs, 1991 (Music Therapy)

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Dance/Movement
Therapy…
is “the psychotherapeutic use
of movement to promote
emotional, social, cognitive and
physical integration of the
individual” (www.adta.org).

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Dance Movement Therapy
• Focuses on movement behavior in the therapeutic relationship.
• Effective for individuals with developmental, medical, social, physical
and psychological impairments.
• Can be helpful for people of all ages, races and ethnic backgrounds in
individual, couples, family and group therapy formats.

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‘But…I can’t dance…’
“The extensive range of dance/movement therapy techniques and the
needs and abilities of participants allow for a wide variety of movement
activities in dance/movement therapy sessions. Dance/movement
characteristics, from subtle and ordinary movement behaviors to
expressive, improvisational dancing could occur” (www.adta.org).

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HIV/AIDS: Reflecting on 15 years in New York City
• YASMINE AWAIS, MAAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAT, LPC
• Assistant Clinical Professor
• Creative Arts Therapies Department
yasmine.awais@drexel.edu

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Creating, Listening, &
Moving
Using the arts for
reflection and self –care
(experiential)