Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy

Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy Leading international training institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy modalities including Initiatic Art Therapy, Guided Drawing and Clay Field Therapy.

21/08/2026

The Certificate in Clay Field Therapy® with Children is back, starting on August 30 and available worldwide 🙌

This is a world-leading, body-focused art therapy training for mental health professionals and educators.

The hands-on approach of Clay Field Therapy® helps young people resolve traumatic developmental setbacks in a safe, somatosensory way, no need to ask "what happened," just space for the body to find its own solutions.

Presented by Cornelia Elbrecht, this fully accredited course will equip you to offer the Clay Field to your young clients, with the tutorials illustrated through over 300 filmed case histories with children aged 2 to 18.

It's a great professional development option for creative arts therapists, counsellors, social workers, occupational therapists and educators wanting to bring this modality into their practice.

Delivered over 12 x fortnightly modules across 6 months, with a full 12 months of access, plus monthly study groups and practitioner round tables to support you along the way.

You'll come away with a Certificate of Completion from ISAT and up to 48 CPD Points.

Find out more and enrol now: https://www.sensorimotorarttherapy.com/courses/online/certificate-in-clay-field-therapy-with-children

We receive so many questions about suitability from professionals of different backgrounds about our Clay Field Therapy ...
13/08/2026

We receive so many questions about suitability from professionals of different backgrounds about our Clay Field Therapy training.

If you are interested, we encourage you to watch the pre-recorded webinar Cornelia Elbrecht has recorded.

You will find out:
✅ Who the training is for
✅ How this hands-on approach helps young people to resolve traumatic developmental setbacks in a safe somatosensory way
✅ What participants can expect from the course

Sign up & watch now >>> http://www.sensorimotorarttherapy.com/webinar-register-certificate-in-clay-field-therapy-with-children

Clay Field Therapy® is a sensorimotor art therapy approach that engages clients through touch, movement and three-dimens...
07/08/2026

Clay Field Therapy® is a sensorimotor art therapy approach that engages clients through touch, movement and three-dimensional haptic exploration.

It's grounded in the understanding that traumatic experience is encoded not only in narrative memory but also in the body's postures, gestures, and actions.

Within this modality, therapists learn to observe how both individual and collective trauma manifest through:
🙌 The organisation of the hands in the clay
🙌 The structuring of space
🙌 Patterns of contact, avoidance, tension and collapse

If you're an Art Therapist, Mental Health Professional or Educator wanting to bring this powerful, body-based approach to your work with children, we invite you to register for our free 30-minute webinar ahead of our August intake for Clay Field Therapy with Children.

Sign up & watch now >>> https://www.sensorimotorarttherapy.com/webinar-register-certificate-in-clay-field-therapy-with-children

It's not too late to join... Have you been on the fence about joining Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing training for o...
27/07/2026

It's not too late to join... Have you been on the fence about joining Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing training for our July 2026 intake? 🤔

This is our most popular training and our students learn how to help clients heal from trauma with a safe, sensorimotor method. Many tell us they enjoy the training for their own personal development journey.

Suited to:
🙌 Art therapists and creative arts therapists, especially those working (or wanting to work) with trauma clients
🙌 Mental health professionals seeking body-focused, largely non-verbal trauma tools as an alternative or complement to talk therapy
🙌 Practitioners supporting clients who struggle to articulate or repeat their story verbally
🙌 Counsellors and Therapists wanting to earn Professional Development Points (up to 28) through a fully accredited course
🙌 Professionals working with children, given dedicated content on Guided Drawing with children
🙌 Anyone already familiar with Guided Drawing wanting to deepen their knowledge with contemporary trauma theory (e.g. the SIBAM framework, Polyvagal Theory)
🙌 Those wanting an interactive learning experience, via faculty round tables, filmed therapy sessions, and a moderated student forum with direct access to Cornelia Elbrecht

By joining now, you will have Instant Access to the first Module.

Pay in 3 Split Payments & Preferred Currency Available 👉 http://www.sensorimotorarttherapy.com/courses/online/healing-trauma-with-guided-drawing

23/07/2026

We are currently enrolling students in our Healing Trauma with Guided drawing program for the July 2026 intake. We have participants from a wide range of countries including Australia, USA, Canada, UK, followed by Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and Taiwan.

If you have been considering taking part in this training for professional development, we are more than happy to answer any questions you have.
We offer payment plans and pay in your preferred currency.

Course details: https://www.sensorimotorarttherapy.com/courses/online/healing-trauma-with-guided-drawing
Contact us: [email protected]

Some of the most insightful feedback our Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing students tell us is that they found the trai...
17/07/2026

Some of the most insightful feedback our Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing students tell us is that they found the training a valuable resource for their own healing journeys.

Helping them to help their clients at an even deeper level. 🙌

If you are an Art Therapist, Psychologist, Educator or Therapist and would like to know if this course would be suitable for you, please contact us on [email protected].

Our next intake begins Sunday 26th July.

The Transformation Journey, one of our core trainings, teaches two core ways of facilitating Guided Drawing sessions - a...
08/07/2026

The Transformation Journey, one of our core trainings, teaches two core ways of facilitating Guided Drawing sessions - a directive and a non-directive approach.

Some clients such as children and teens, or those struggling with mental illness and overwhelm need a directive, structured approach. These client groups easily get lost unless given clear structures for scaffolding their developing or compromised sense of self.

For many, the dynamics of bilateral drawing in rhythmic repetition is unsafe; they become disoriented drawing with closed eyes, as the felt sense has not yet developed into awareness, or is too dissociated to be within reach. For many traumatised clients, the body is not yet a friend.

Other clients are over-structured, too much in their head, and longing for more connection with their feelings and emotions. Stressed, and dissociated from their body and inner flow, these clients profoundly benefit from inner guidance and the therapist's support in learning to trust their intuition, letting go of the need to control as they close their eyes and engage in rhythmic exploration to discover a new safety in their embodiment.

Both client groups benefit from Guided Drawing® but sessions are facilitated in very different ways. Learning to recognise and apply both approaches is the theme of The Transformation Journey.

Our Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing intake begins July 26 - and you can start now.

We have a Guided Drawing Course Bundle that begins with The Transformation Journey ahead of the new intake, then you move directly into Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing.

On completion of both courses, you will hold the highest level of certification available in Guided Drawing®.

Payment plans and multi-currency payment available. Save $165 USD on the Bundle and receive access to both courses.

Find out more → http://www.sensorimotorarttherapy.com/courses/online/guided-drawing-course-bundle

When the Guided Drawing workshops I facilitate attracted increasing numbers of participants, the need to establish self-...
01/07/2026

When the Guided Drawing workshops I facilitate attracted increasing numbers of participants, the need to establish self-directed safety became important.

Over time I learnt that there were three core shapes that were suitable to self-regulate the nervous system quite effectively. These days I start all Guided Drawing groups with inexperienced and new clients by practicing these three shapes first, if need be, extensively.

Find out more about these three core intervention shapes in my new blog > https://www.sensorimotorarttherapy.com/blog/guided-drawing-the-three-core-intervention-shapes

If you're new to our work, you might be new to our work and be wondering... What is Guided Drawing? 🤔Guided Drawing is a...
23/06/2026

If you're new to our work, you might be new to our work and be wondering... What is Guided Drawing? 🤔

Guided Drawing is a bilateral approach to body mapping, a sensorimotor practice that uses a bottom-up approach to build awareness of body sensations: in the muscles, the viscera, the heart rate, and the breath.

Rather than turning a feeling into an image, you translate it into movement.

A fluttering in the stomach? You flutter with the crayons just as "it" flutters inside you.

With a crayon in each hand and eyes closed, you find a rhythm and a shape that lets you safely let go of cognitive control because your head does not know the needed outcome.

Rhythmic repetition gradually allows you to connect with implicit memory, your embodied biography rather than the conscious stories of your past.

The inquiry shifts from "How do I feel?" to "What do I need?" This may be soothing, circular motions, or straight, sharp lines to release pressure, or containment to be held.

If you'd like to know more about our long running Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing program, sign up for our free 30 minute webinar with Cornelia Elbrecht.

It's pre-recorded for instant access: https://www.sensorimotorarttherapy.com/webinar-register-healing-trauma-with-guided-drawing

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