Awakening Awareness: Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Processing via the Expressive Therapies Continuum

July 13, 2025 / 10:15-11:15 AM Pacific Time

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Making the unknown known requires knowledge of the neural aspects of implicit and explicit memory

Vertical and horizontal information processing are involved

Learn how the Expressive Therapies Continuum serves as a model for memory integration

You’re wondering how to help clients integrate implicit and explicit memories

The clients you work with come to you with incomplete recollections and self-stories. You know your role is to support them in integrating the lost and found parts of themselves, but you’re feeling a little lost as to how to help clients find integration. How can you describe the process of integration to them when you’re a little fuzzy on that yourself?

The Expressive Therapies Continuum is a framework that can explain integration

Even though integration’s become a buzzword in recent years, you know there’s more to it than buzzing and that nervous system-informed frameworks can help. You’ve heard about the Expressive Therapies Continuum and wonder about the model’s potential for guiding your understanding of how to find lost memories and give them form so they can be examined in the light of awareness.

My name is Megan, and I’m here to share the ETC—and its relevance to memory work—with you  

I help clinicians make sense of the Expressive Therapies Continuum and its role as a bridge between nonconscious and conscious material. The structure of the ETC lends itself to mapping out relationships among different kinds of nervous system information processing, and I enjoy helping therapists and clients alike grow appreciation for the nonverbal aspects of the things that get talked about—and don’t—in therapy.

Level up your understanding of memory and integration!

Are you ready to invest one hour in strengthening your understanding of integrative memory work with clients? Join me for this overview that will help you understand the horizontal and vertical information processing involved in making the nonconscious conscious and the unknown known. The Expressive Therapies Continuum can provide the structure you need to ground the way you approach awareness!

 

CE Hours: 1.0 for this live event

Megan VanMeter PLLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7793. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Megan VanMeter PLLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Investment: FREE

Learning Objectives:

Attendees will be able to

  • differentiate between vertical and horizontal information processing as they relate to the integration of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

  • identify properties of the one (1) dimension, three (3) levels, and six (6) components of the Expressive Therapies Continuum.

  • describe how the Expressive Therapies Continuum can be used to develop treatment that promotes vertical as well as horizontal information processing for the purpose of reconciling issues.

 Do you struggle to support clients in making sense of implicit memories?

 
A wooden box, open to display a collection of photographs, representing memories waiting to be integrated.
 

 Hope to see you there!

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