ERICA CURTIS, LMFT, ATR-BC
THERAPIST, AUTHOR, SPEAKER
RAISING RESILIENT CHILDREN IN A CHANGING WORLD: Innovative Approaches to Addressing Anxiety
Psychotherapist Erica Curtis speaks about the phenomenon of eco-anxiety and how to help your children build resilience.
Erica Curtis is a respected practitioner, writer, and speaker on innovative approaches to emotional and interpersonal health. A licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Board Certified Art Therapist, Erica maintains a psychotherapy practice in Orange County and teaches for UCLArts and Healing. She is currently working on a creativity-based workbook with the Foundation for Art and Healing to address the loneliness epidemic. She is also the author, with Ping Ho, of "The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art."
Erica Curtis is a respected practitioner, writer, and speaker on innovative approaches to emotional and interpersonal health. A licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Board Certified Art Therapist, Erica maintains a psychotherapy practice in Orange County and teaches for UCLArts and Healing.
Erica has been featured as a parenting, relationship, and wellness expert in over 50 media outlets including: PBS, Boston Globe, ELLE, and USA Today. Past faculty at Loyola Marymount University, past director on the board of the American Art Therapy Assoc., and past president of the Southern California Art Therapy Association, Erica presents widely for universities, school districts, mental health organizations, businesses, and more. She is currently working on a creativity-based workbook with the Foundation for Art and Healing to address the loneliness epidemic. She is also the author, with Ping Ho, of "The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art."
"ECO-ANXIETY DESCRIBES A GENERAL SENSE OF ANXIETY ABOUT ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS, THREATS, IMPENDING DOOM OF THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET. HOW EVER IT SHOWS UP IN YOUR OWN LIFE IS IMPORTANT TO PAY ATTENTION TO."
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Even the best talk-based practices in parenting can be limiting. How can art help parents temper storms of emotion, defuse sibling conflicts, get teeth brushed, and raise happy, successful kids? In The Innovative Parent, Erica Curtis and Ping Ho integrate cutting-edge research, years of clinical expertise, and their own parenting experience into a revolutionary yet practical guide to creative parenting. Plentiful illustrations and anecdotes bring concepts to life and show art in action with kids and parents.
Together, Curtis and Ho let parents in on art therapy trade secrets to help children make sense of emotions, build connections with others, develop problem-solving skills, resolve day-to-day conflicts, process and retain information, confront fears and anxiety, and much more. These are complex tasks for something as seemingly simple as making art, yet therein lies the beauty of The Innovative Parent: its down-to-earth approach is simple, doable, and fun.
