For Multi-Disciplinary Practitioners who support People in their Relationship with Anxiety.
With Dr Elaine Grech (Ph.D.)
Warranted Gestalt and Systemic Psychotherapist,
Expressive Arts Therapist (EXAT)
Accredited Supervisor and Warranted Teacher
Date: Friday 5th September 2025
Time: 8.30 am to 1.45 pm (5 CPD hours)
Location: Pembroke (Limited Number)
Price: 120 € *
*(includes free-flowing tea breaks and a PowerPoint presentation with tools)
Early Bird: 100 € if you pay by the 15th July 2025
*Payment is non-refundable and non-transferable. Please read all the information before booking.
• Would you like to practice embodied, trauma-informed, multi-sensory expressive therapy interventions that can be incorporated into our work with people who experience anxiety and their significant others?
• Would you like to develop your attunement to the varied multi-sensory strengths and needs of different service-users?
• Do you aim to integrate this multi-sensory toolkit within a Gestalt and Systemic-informed way of working?
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"Fear is excitement without the breath." Fritz Perls
Aimed for: Multi-disciplinary practitioners who want to learn how to incorporate multi-sensory embodied expressive arts therapy techniques. These ideas are also contextualised within a Gestalt and systemic framework.
• One does not need to be artistically skilled to develop this approach. What helps is cultivating curiosity to develop a multi-sensory approach to expressing oneself, thereby being of service to the people we work with.
• Since the workshop is experiential, it also aims to support the personal and professional growth of the practitioners.
• The professionals include psychotherapists, family therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, guidance teachers, teachers, creative expressive arts therapists, social workers, managers, child and youth care workers, support workers, holistic well-being practitioners, etc.
My interest in understanding anxiety has been with me since the time little me could not even give such a sensation a name. Little Me expressed her emotions through her imagination, prayers, poems, stories, drawings, gardening, music, dance, and enactments. As time passed, these multi-sensory ways of expressing myself took centre stage in meeting, befriending and releasing my anxiety cloud. I have felt in each cell of my body the benefit of a variety of multi-sensory and embodied therapeutic interventions, which, in time, as I transitioned through the process of healing, remained part of my preventive mental health daily support rituals to regulate my emotions and free the anxiety cloud so it can drift away.
The therapeutic interventions I would like to share with you in this workshop are on anxiety (Friday, 5th September 2025) and the other two training workshops, which you can find on the website:
• depression (Saturday 4th October 2025)
• anger and forgiveness (Friday 21st November 2025)
These are the ones I learnt/received and practised first on myself and then, over the years, integrated into my work with fellow explorers (clients and supervisees) who were also in the process of experiencing anxiety. The trauma-informed expressive art therapeutic interventions, which I am now officially trained in as an Expressive Arts Therapist, will also be integrated into the other two training modalities I practice: Gestalt psychotherapy and Systemic Couple and Family Therapy.
Research in trauma advocates for the incorporation of sensory-based interventions that can help the regulation of emotions (Levine & Frederick, 1997; Malchiodi, 2020; van der Kolk, 2015). People are different in their dominant sense, the one they use most easily to express themselves, learn and heal. Visual learners might find themselves more comfortable initially expressing themselves through colour, marks, scribbles on paper, or visual symbols rather than words. Kinesthetic learners might first become aware of their experience through attuning to their body movement. Auditory learners orient themselves to sounds. So, while some people's expression through the senses supports them to eventually be able to find the right words and reflect (bottom-up approach), others might need to start from talking and start to get in touch with their senses through sensory-based interventions (top-down approach).
In this workshop, which focuses on working with anxiety, we will explore embodied multi-sensory expressive therapy interventions that attune to the specific sensory needs of the people we support. When working with individuals, couples, families, or teams, these needs might differ even within the same system, and the facilitator can develop therapeutic possibilities that are attuned to the different needs within a system.
We will explore and practice trauma-informed multi-sensory expressive therapeutic interventions incorporating:
• Embodied, Sensory-based interventions, including breathing, interoceptive sensory awareness and movement
• Visualisation-based interventions
• Sound-based interventions
• Touch-based interventions
• Smell and taste-based interventions
These multi-sensory interventions are contextualised within a trauma-informed, integrative meaning-making model.
Booking and Payment Procedure:
1. Booking through the website:
https://www.drelainegrechpsychotherapist.com/upcoming-events
and click Register Now on the event of your choice. If the website allows you to book, it means there are availabilities. If the workshop is full, there will be a notification which offers the option of a waiting list.
2. How to secure your payment:
• Payment must occur within 24 hours; otherwise, your registration will not be secured.
• Write your name and the workshop’s title when processing the payment so that the payment can be identified.
• Please email payment confirmation to
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3. Participants will receive a receipt of payment via the email provided within the following week and, after completing the workshop. within a week, a certificate of attendance with the actual number of CPD hours completed. The certificate will reflect the completed hours; therefore, please ensure you are present for the entire workshop.
4. Please note that it is on a first-come, first-served basis, and your booking can only be confirmed after payment and registration.
5. The payment is non-refundable, except in the rare event that the facilitator cancels the workshop. The fee for the workshop IS NOT transferable to someone else. If the person who has booked and paid cannot attend, they cannot transfer their booking to someone else.
6. Bookings must be made individually; if an organisation wishes to sponsor employees' attendance, prospective workshop participants are still required to book and pay individually. They will be given a receipt of payment in their name, and they can choose to present it to the organisation.
7. Approximately a week before the workshop, you will receive an email with the location details and suggestions for preparing for the training.
Payment Options:
Full Fee 120€
Early bird fee: 100€ if you pay by the 15th July 2025
Payment Options:
Payment on Revolut
or Mobile Banking: 00356 99447307
PayPal
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Online Bank Transfer
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I wish you well, and thank you for your service to the community!
Looking forward to our shared space.
Many blessings
Dr Elaine Grech
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