MPS Art Therapy Community Lecture

Engage your Body's Wisdom: Focusing and Art Therapy

Elizabeth Baring, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT, NCPsyALP

"Do you have a sense when you do art therapy that there is a 'more' there that you and your client are not getting to?" "Do you wish you could connect on a deeper level with your client's experience?” You can learn this by a process of  listening to your body in a gentle curious way and hearing the messages that this inner voice is sending. Gene Gendlin and colleagues at the University of Chicago discovered this way of working with clients and called their approach Focusing. Focusing can provide another dimension to your work by helping clients access their inner felt sense of the situations and problems they face and use art therapy to discover new approaches and possibilities.

Elizabeth Baring,  MS, ATR-BC, LCAT, NCPsyALP is a psychotherapist in New York City who helps children and adults with a wide range of emotional and behavioral difficulties by combining sandplay, creative arts therapy and focusing oriented psychotherapy with traditional verbal therapy. With over 20 years’ experience in private practice, Liz has also worked in medical and psychiatric settings. She is a member of the Educational Support Team at the Brooklyn Waldorf School. Liz is a faculty member and supervisor at the Training and Research in Self Psychology Foundation. She practices in both English and Spanish.  

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