Lee Cohen, PhD(c), RCAT, ATR, MPS, REACE, CCTS-I, CCTS-F
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Lidice Cohen is a dedicated practitioner and a current PhD candidate in Expressive Therapies at Lesley University. Holding a Masters in Professional Studies (MPS), Lidice is an accomplished art therapist with over 25 years of diverse experience in the arts, spanning roles as an artist, producer, dancer, and advocate. She is also a Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist for Individuals accredited by the Trauma Institute International.
Lidice's expertise extends to facilitating workshops on the integration of spirituality and art therapy, the expressive therapies and trauma, both locally and internationally. Her clientele encompasses children and their families, hospice patients, individuals struggling with substance abuse, grief and loss, and those within the correctional system, notably youth at the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.
With a degree in Human Development, specializing in the Expressive Arts, Lidice is a professional member of the Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA), the American Art Therapy Association (AATA), and The International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. She holds credentials from AATA and CATA.
Expression by Lee boasts a credentialed team passionate about serving individuals of all abilities and needs, utilizing the arts as a therapeutic medium for mental health and wellness. Lidice's approach is strength-based and psycho-spiritual, leveraging positive psychology to unlock clients' full potential and a profound sense of meaning.
In addition to her therapeutic practice, Lidice conducts research on the virtual reality in art therapy, provides workshops and speaks at conferences, enriching the field with her insights and expertise.
Expression by Lee extends its services to schools, community centers, nonprofit organizations, and families, offering both in-person and Zoom-based sessions to accommodate diverse needs and preferences.
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What is Art Therapy?
The American Art Therapy Association defines art therapy as an integrative mental health and human services profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.
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Art therapy, facilitated by a professional art therapist, effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals as well as community concerns. Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change.
Art therapists are master-level clinicians who work with people of all ages across a broad spectrum of practice. Guided by ethical standards and scope of practice, their education and supervised training prepares them for culturally proficient work with diverse populations in a variety of settings. Honoring individuals’ values and beliefs, art therapists work with people who are challenged with medical and mental health problems, as well as individuals seeking emotional, creative, and spiritual growth.
Through integrative methods, art therapy engages the mind, body, and spirit in ways that are distinct from verbal articulation alone. Kinesthetic, sensory, perceptual, and symbolic opportunities invite alternative modes of receptive and expressive communication, which can circumvent the limitations of language. Visual and symbolic expression gives voice to experience, and empowers individual, communal, and societal transformation.
What is a CCTSI credential?
The credential CCTSI (Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist-Individual) demonstrates a working knowledge of how to engage in the process of trauma treatment, focusing not only on interventions, but how to sequence the interventions to maximize outcomes. Certification ensures the quality of treatment for those that have experienced trauma.
The Trauma Institute International (TII) believes in helping people face and recover from a history of adversity, professionals need to be equipped with the best training in the industry and have the highest ethical standards. TII achieves this by supporting care providers on their path to excellence through rigorous, comprehensive certification programs.
TII believes professional accountability is essential as developments are made within the healing community. Earning and maintaining a trauma-informed certification is a declaration of continuous professional development.
The credential CCTSI (Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist-Individual) demonstrates a working knowledge of how to engage in the process of trauma treatment, focusing not only on interventions, but how to sequence the interventions to maximize outcomes. Certification ensures the quality of treatment for those that have experienced trauma.
The Trauma Institute International (TII) believes in helping people face and recover from a history of adversity, professionals need to be equipped with the best training in the industry and have the highest ethical standards. TII achieves this by supporting care providers on their path to excellence through rigorous, comprehensive certification programs.
TII believes professional accountability is essential as developments are made within the healing community. Earning and maintaining a trauma-informed certification is a declaration of continuous professional development.
International Expressive Arts Therapy Association
Lee is a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator (REACE) and a professional member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA).
The IEATA is a non-profit, professional organization founded in 1994 to encourage the creative spirit. IEATA ia an inclusive, culturally diverse organization that supports expressive arts therapists, artists, educators, consultants and others using integrative, multimodal arts processes for personal and community growth and transformation.
What is a REACE?
REACE is the acronym for Registered Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator. IEATA defines REACE as a professional who brings creative process and awareness of multi-modal expressive arts into a variety of environments. Has experience using the expressive arts as tools for conflict resolution, organizational development, education, personal or professional growth, the healing arts, spiritual enrichment and more. While this work may be of therapeutic value, it is not psychotherapy nor does this registration give recipients authority to conduct psychotherapy.
The Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator uses a variety of arts processes such as visual art, movement or dance, creative writing, voice techniques, music and poetry. She or he understands the potential in using expressive arts in the above contexts and has working knowledge of the various art processes and materials.
While the expressive arts therapy environment requires an in-depth understanding of human development and psychological growth, those in the Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator field will have a broad spectrum of educational and/or professional backgrounds. These professionals may work in organizational development, management, health care, service organizations, primary, secondary or adult education, and a wide spectrum of additional environments.
The IEATA is a non-profit, professional organization founded in 1994 to encourage the creative spirit. IEATA ia an inclusive, culturally diverse organization that supports expressive arts therapists, artists, educators, consultants and others using integrative, multimodal arts processes for personal and community growth and transformation.
What is a REACE?
REACE is the acronym for Registered Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator. IEATA defines REACE as a professional who brings creative process and awareness of multi-modal expressive arts into a variety of environments. Has experience using the expressive arts as tools for conflict resolution, organizational development, education, personal or professional growth, the healing arts, spiritual enrichment and more. While this work may be of therapeutic value, it is not psychotherapy nor does this registration give recipients authority to conduct psychotherapy.
The Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator uses a variety of arts processes such as visual art, movement or dance, creative writing, voice techniques, music and poetry. She or he understands the potential in using expressive arts in the above contexts and has working knowledge of the various art processes and materials.
While the expressive arts therapy environment requires an in-depth understanding of human development and psychological growth, those in the Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator field will have a broad spectrum of educational and/or professional backgrounds. These professionals may work in organizational development, management, health care, service organizations, primary, secondary or adult education, and a wide spectrum of additional environments.