VFTS 2022 7 | Peggy Kolodny & Salicia Mazero | Integrating EMDR, IFS & Art Therapy

FEATURED GUESTS:
Peggy Kolodny MA ATR-BC LCPAT, is a Board Certified, Registered and Licensed Art Therapist with level 2 certificates in IFS and in EMDR, specializing in trauma treatment across the life span. She is the founder of the group private practice, Art Therapy Collective of Owings Mills.Currently, Peggy is adjunct faculty with George Washington University’s Art Therapy Graduate Program as well as multiple professional training faculties. (Chesapeake Beach Play Therapy Seminars; The Ferentz Institute; and The Expressive Therapies Summits). She is on the Board of the Maryland Art Therapy Association, is a past president, and is their delegate to the American Art Therapy Association. Peggy is the current Chair of the International Society on the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's (ISSTD) Creative Arts Therapies Special Interest Group. Past faculties include University of Maryland, School of Social Work, Goucher College, and Maryland Institute, College of Art. Recent publications include 2 chapters in Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addictions and Trauma (Quinn, 2021) ; and a co-authored chapter with Salicia Mazero "The Interweave of Internal Family Systems, EMDR and Art Therapy" in “EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies” (Davis, Fitzgerald, Jacobs and Marchand, Routledge release October 2022). Past positions, back in the 1980's to the 1990's, include Chair of the Central Maryland Sexual Abuse Treatment Task Force, Vice Chair of the Maryland Chapter of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and Director of a nonprofit clinical trauma treatment agency, The Family Connection. She truly has been working as an art therapist with trauma populations for 40 years since her graduation from George Washington University's Art Therapy Program.

Salicia Mazero, MA, LPC, ATR, CEDS-S, is a licensed professional counselor, registered art therapist and a certified eating disorder specialist and supervisor practicing in St Louis, MO. Salicia is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Over the past 10 years, Salicia has worked in two treatment centers focusing on treating eating disorders before transitioning to private practice. Salicia serves as the president of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals St. Louis chapter. She is also on the board of directors of the Missouri Eating Disorder Association and a presenter for their Feed the Facts program educating students and teachers about eating disorders and prevention in the school system. She presents nationwide annually on art therapy, IFS, and eating disorder treatment. Salicia recently co-authored a chapter on Art Therapy, IFS and EMDR in the book EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies.

LISTEN & LEARN: 

• A general overview of Internal Family Systems Therapy created by Richard Schwartz. 
• The three main parts and the roles they play. 
• How EMDR, IFS and art therapy can effectively by integrated. 
• The 8 C's of self. 
• Role of Self Energy. 
• How presenting professionally lead to collaboration and opportunities for publishing. 

RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:

• Peggy Kolodny's practice Art Therapy Collective of Owings Mills www.arttherapycollective.vpweb.com
• Email Peggy at pkolodny@yahoo.com 
• Art Therapy Collective of Owings Mills Facebook Page
• Salicia Mazero's practice Creating Your Journey, LLC  creatingyourjourneyllc.com
• Email Salicia at creatingyourjourneyllc@gmail.com
• Episode 46 of The Creative Psychotherapist with Jennifer Marchand
• Episode 78 with The Creative Psychotherapist Jocelyn Fitzgerald 

SUMMIT SESSIONS:

• EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies Routledge is offering a 20% preorder discount with CODE: FLE22
• EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies All Day Symposium November 5th, 2022 10AM - 5PM via Zoom  at the Expressive Therapies Summit 
• Internal Family Systems, Art Therapy & EMDR November 17, 2022 10AM - 5PM via Zoom at the Expressive Therapies Summit