Expressive Therapies Continuum Consulting, Supervision, and Training
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live Expressive Therapies Continuum webinar:
Introduction to the Expressive Therapies Continuum for Art Therapy Educators
Friday, February 06, 2026 / 5:45-6:45 PM Pacific Time
Guiding your clients toward better outcomes is your top priority. The Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) is a model that can help you create therapeutic shifts in a client’s capacity for integrating.
Quality, researched, expert information and support are available to assist you in developing fluency with this outcome-informed framework for case conceptualization and clinical decision making in the provision of individualized treatment.
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What Is the Expressive Therapies Continuum?
The Expressive Therapies Continuum is so much more than a framework for using art in therapy, though it is that too! Read on to learn about what makes the Expressive Therapies Continuum relevant in the provision of responsive, outcome-informed, client-centered care. If you've never thought about these aspects of the Expressive Therapies Continuum, this article is for you.
FREE Expressive Therapies Continuum Q&A:
Virtual Office Hours: AMA (Ask Me Anything!)
Friday, January 30, 2026
option 1: 7:00-8:00 AM Pacific Time / option 2: 6:00-7:00 PM Pacific Time
Expressive Therapies Continuum Webinars & Workshops
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recent Expressive Therapies Continuum webinars
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![A burning palm tree, alone in the desert, representing burnout and isolation among mental health professionals.]()
Burnout Among Mental Health Professionals: An Ethical Problem with a Creative Solution
May 11, 2025
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![A wrench being applied to a nail and a hammer being applied to a screw, representing how important it is to use the right tools in art therapy.]()
The Expressive Therapies Continuum and Deliberate Practice: Improving Outcomes in Art Therapy
June 14, 2025
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![A wooden box, open to display a collection of photographs, representing memories waiting to be integrated.]()
Awakening Awareness: Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Processing via the Expressive Therapies Continuum
July 13, 2025
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![three Rubik’s cubes, representing the three Media Dimension Variables that are modified to create therapeutic movement within the Expressive Therapies Continuum]()
Form & Function: Working with Media Dimension Variables to Create Therapeutic Movement Within the Expressive Therapies Continuum
August 09, 2025
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![collection of lights dangling against a dark background, representing how therapists share their light with others in dark times]()
Improving Client Outcomes: Selflessness, Self-care, & the Relationship Between Creativity & Therapist Efficacy
September 05, 2025
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![young child drawing on white paper and surrounded by art materials, representing an art therapy client]()
Developmental Underpinnings of the Expressive Therapies Continuum: Implications for Working with Children
October 03, 2025
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![creatively painted wooden figure, representing a target of workplace bullying—targets often have creative ideas, which threatens bullies and their status-quo mentality]()
The Trauma Hiding in Plain Sight: Workplace Bullying, Treatment Considerations, and a Case Example of Recovery as Seen through the Structure of the Expressive Therapies Continuum
November 07, 2025
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![curious cat climbing a ladder, representing a search for next steps following art therapy assessment]()
Curiosity: A Precursor to the Development of Expressive Therapies Continuum-based Assessment Skills
December 05, 2025
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![silhouettes of two heads facing each other, each with a maze inside and a dotted line connecting the mazes, representing empathic attunement]()
Embodying Empathic Attunement Within the Expressive Therapies Continuum
January 02, 2026
More about the Expressive Therapies Continuum
Megan VanMeter, MA, LPC, LMHC, LPC-AT/S, ATR-BC
Hello! I’m a first-generation Expressive Therapies Continuum student who completed formal study and supervision with Drs. Vija Lusebrink and Sandra (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn, art therapy pioneers and co-creators of the ETC, while earning my master’s degree in art therapy with a specialization in grief and medical counseling at the University of Louisville. For the last dozen years or so I’ve been giving ETC presentations and workshops to help clinicians understand the the principles of this model, though there’s so much more information to share and so many other therapists to bring into the circle.
The expressive therapies are mental health’s original embodied, experiential, implicit, integrative professions. Accordingly, the Expressive Therapies Continuum describes the relationships between physical, emotional, and intellectual aspects of the mental image formation process and the shift between nonconsciousness and consciousness. As a developmentally grounded, pantheoretical framework for individualized, outcome-informed treatment, the ETC serves as a model for integrating a client’s mental world and is of particular relevance to clinicians who recognize that the verbal arises out of the nonverbal.
I’m offering you a labor-of-love Expressive Therapies Continuum bibliography to support you in leveling up your knowledge of this framework through information from vetted sources. This document has also been divided into generational sections so you can follow the transmission of ideas from Drs. Lusebrink and (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn to their direct descendants. Please enter your email address in the form below to receive the bibliography as well as periodic ETC news, such as announcements about upcoming presentations and workshops, additions to the bibliography, and maybe even a few pointers here and there.
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Meet the Co-creators of the Expressive Therapies Continuum
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Vija Lusebrink, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM
3 interrelated levels of information processing in the development of mental imagery: (1) physical, (2) emotional, & (3) intellectual
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Sandra (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn, PhD, ATR-BC, LPAT
3 interdependent variables that influence client output in the art therapy process: (1) task complexity, (2) task structure, & (3) media properties
Looking for other services?
In addition to offering Expressive Therapies Continuum consulting, supervision, and training for expressive therapists around the world, I also provide ETC-based anxiety therapy and depression therapy for adults in Texas, Indiana, and Arizona. Contact me for more info!