Understanding and Effectively Utilizing Experiential Therapy

Julie Anne Laser, PhD, MSW, LCSW is a professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. She teaches classes in Experiential Therapy, Resilience, Human Trafficking, Military Families, Research, and School Social Work Interventions. Her clinical expertise is in Experiential Therapy, Resilience, PTSD and trauma focused therapy, parenting issues, child and adolescent healthy development, couples therapy, adolescent substance abuse disorders, working with human trafficking victims/survivors, working with military families, grief work, well-being and resilience throughout the life cycle, and school social work. She is the founder of Experiential Therapy for ALL, LLC.Nicole Nicotera, PhD, MSW, LCSW is a professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. She is also a certified mindfulness teacher and a registered yoga teacher and has been trained to facilitate portable and low ropes courses. She teaches mixed methods research, clinicalinterviewing skills, and mind-body-spirit connections in social work practice. Her research focuses on promoting health and well-being across the life span, mind-body-spirit practices as pathways to well-being, and issues of unearned privilege and oppression in social work practice, education and research. Her clinical practice experience included work with children and families, the use of art, play and sand tray therapies and work with seriously emotionally and behaviorally challenged children and their families.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Foundations of Experiential TherapyChapter 3: Trauma and Trauma SensitivityChapter 4: Integrating Mindfulness with Experiential TherapyChapter 5: Fine-Tuning for the Clinician: Capacities for Wellbeing and Working Across IdentitiesChapter 6: Risk ManagementChapter 7: Structuring Experiential Therapy InterventionsChapter 8: Experiential Therapy in the Natural RealmChapter 9: Experiential Therapy in the Virtual RealmChapter 10: Experiential Therapy Activities with Specific PopulationsChapter 11: Experiential Therapy Activities with Specific Group CharacteristicsChapter 12: Evaluating Experiential Therapy in your Practice and Conclusions