VFTS 2022 9 | Megan VanMeter | Wallas Model of Creativity in Therapy & in Your Business

FEATURED GUESTS: Megan VanMeter, ATR-BC, LPC, LMHC, LPC-AT/S Megan VanMeter is a board-certified registered art therapist with clinical licenses in Arizona (licensed professional counselor), Indiana (licensed mental health counselor), and Texas (licensed professional counselor with the art therapy specialty designation and board-approved supervisor status). She is especially interested in burnout prevention, intervention, and postvention for helping professionals and has a virtual private practice where she provides art therapy to support these special people. Megan’s experiences in behavioral health, correctional, educational, medical, and social services settings exposed her to the wide world of burnout and led her to question the training process of helpers, which doesn’t address knowledge and skills in the area of burning bright throughout one’s career. She has served the art therapy profession through board and committee work at local, regional, and national levels. A scholar at heart, Megan enjoys doing research, giving presentations, and writing about the Expressive Therapies Continuum, an integrative, pantheoretical model developed by her graduate professors in the ‘70s and embraced by current art therapists for its relevance to contemporary advances in neuroscience. One day her writings will finally be published! In the meantime, she uses this model to ground her practice and guide her efforts to educate others about burnout.

LISTEN & LEARN: 

• The differences between Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Traumatization, Secondary Traumatic Stress and Burn-Out. 
• What the Expressive Therapies Continuum is and how it has influenced her work. 
• The Role of Wallas Model of Creativity as a way of understanding client change and engagement within therapy. 
• Techniques for effectively managing time for the administrative tasks of therapy. 

RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:

• Email Megan at megan@meganvanmeter.com 
• Megan's practice website https://www.meganvanmeter.com
• More information on the Expressive Therapies Continuum and a Free Bibliography on the ETC at https://www.meganvanmeter.com/for-expressive-therapists

SESSIONS at the EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES SUMMIT:
November 19th, 2022 Expressive Therapies Continuum: An Essential Framework for Using the Expressive Arts in Therapy with Nancy Choe, Lisa Hinz, Joshua Nann, Maria Riccardi & Megan VanMeter