by Pamela Hayes Malkoff (Author)
The Creative Cognitive Therapy Method is a short-term, 10-session, solution-focused therapy combining cognitive-behavioural therapy with art therapy, designed to help people heal from a variety of issues affecting their mental health and overall wellbeing. This program helps people to stay focused, gain new perspectives and enhance their daily coping skills to reduce anxiety, addictive behaviours, depression and anger.
The book includes a full overview of the Creative Cognitive Therapy Method and how to apply it, whether as a part of clinical practice or as self-help. Each of the 10 sessions is clearly laid out with quotes to inspire, goals, CBT interventions and their explanations, art therapy interventions, discussion questions, and easy-to-understand homework assignments.
The Creative Cognitive Therapy Method provides people with the tools and mindset to individualize their healing and self-discovery to create lasting changes in their lives.
Author Biography
Pamela Malkoff Hayes, LPC, LMFT, LMHC, ATR-BC, is a board-certified art therapist with over 30 years of experience. Pamela's diverse experience spans schools, hospitals, prisons, foster and residential care, as well as private practice, and she specialises in alcohol and drug addictions, relationships, families and parenting, depression and anxiety, grief, gender identity, open-relationships and sexuality. Pamela has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in New York, NY and Otis/Parsons in Los Angeles, CA and a Graduate Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and Art Therapy from The Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA.