What Self Care?! Reconsidering Integration of Compassion Work at a Time of Personal, Communal, and National Struggle (No CEs)
Focus Groups (Not eligible for Continuing Education)
Einat Metzl, PHD, LMFT, ATR-BC
Einat Metzl, PHD, LMFT, ATR-BC is a licensed marital and family therapist (MFT) and a registered art therapist (ATR). She is a therapist in private practice and an associate professor at Loyola Marymount University’s graduate Marital Family Therapy / Art Therapy program. Einat is committed to expanding art therapy research and bridging our current paradigms of art therapy with related discipline. Her previous work explored the interwoven and collective knowledge of wellness connected to Art therapy, sex therapy, disaster mental health, resilience, play therapy, inter generational trauma, leadership and diversity, couples' therapy, and coping with loss.
This focus group, which draws from personal and professional experience as an art therapist and educator, will invite participants to reconsider the concept of self-care through the lens of compassion research, and explore current practices and barriers to self-care within a systemic frame.