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Course Description & Educational Goals

This training prepares therapists, social workers, counselors, and other helping professionals to facilitate trauma-informed, research-supported art workshops with individuals, families, and groups impacted by trauma, including interpersonal trauma and oppression. Course content includes practical art-based approaches informed by Trauma-Informed Care, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the Trauma Resiliency Model, Community Resiliency Model, and Somatic Experiencing to support emotional expression, self-regulation, and client engagement. Educational objectives include developing skills to create safe and predictable environments, reinforce self-determination, and apply trauma-informed art facilitation strategies in professional practice.

Learning Objectives

Presenters Include

Rudy Hernandez, MA

Rudy S. Hernandez holds a Master of Arts in Education Curriculum & Instruction, a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, and has over 16 years of experience in trauma-informed education, curriculum development, and healing arts program implementation. For over 12 years, he has led AWBW’s Two-Day Windows Facilitator Training and additional art-based professional trainings for helping professionals. Clinicians benefit from his expertise in translating trauma-informed principles into practical training tools and creating engaging strategies that support diverse individuals and communities impacted by violence and trauma.

Kat Mardo, BFA

Kat Mardo holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance with intensive movement-based training emphasizing grounding, self-regulation, listening, and presence. She has over four years of experience co-facilitating AWBW’s Two-Day Windows Facilitator Training and On-Demand course, contributing to experiential training for helping professionals. Clinicians benefit from her expertise in embodied practices and practical strategies that enhance safety, engagement, emotional regulation, and reflective insight in individual and group settings.

Monica Martinez, LMFT

Monica Martinez, LMFT, holds a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology and has 20 years of experience in trauma treatment and professional training. She is trained in the Trauma Resiliency Model as well as Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Monica co-led the development of a holistic healing arts retreat model in collaboration with Georgetown University, and partner organizations including AWBW. The research obtained was subsequently peer-reviewed and published in the Traumatology journal. Clinicians benefit from her expertise in trauma treatment, regulation-focused interventions, and translating research that informed the development of the Healing Arc which was adapted into the AWBW Arc of Healing that informs practical tools for clinical settings.

Rachel Price, MFA

Rachel Price holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, an Art Therapy Certificate, and has extensive experience facilitating healing art workshops with survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, homelessness, and trauma. For over four years, she has trained helping professionals through AWBW’s Two-Day Windows Facilitator Training and related professional development programs. Clinicians benefit from her expertise in group facilitation, survivor-centered programming, community engagement, and using creative expression to foster resilience, voice, and connection with clients.

Christy Turek Rials, BA

Christy Turek Rials holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, is trained in Trauma-Informed Care and the Community Resiliency Model, and has facilitated trauma-informed art workshops with trauma survivors and service providers for over 20 years. She has also trained mental health clinicians and community-based professionals through A Window Between Worlds’ (AWBW) Two-Day Windows Facilitator Training for over 15 years. Clinicians benefit from her expertise in trauma-informed facilitation, curriculum design, and translating creative practices into practical tools that support emotional regulation, engagement, expression, and client connection.

Eunice Vargas, AA

Eunice Vargas is a community education professional and domestic violence advocate with 14 years of experience facilitating healing art workshops with trauma survivors and community members. A culturally inclusive leader with a deep focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and particular emphasis on the Black experience, she has facilitated healing art workshops with diverse participant populations, including Black, Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander survivors. Trainees benefit from her expertise in culturally responsive facilitation, domestic violence prevention and intervention, and adapting healing art workshops to effectively engage diverse individuals and communities.

Tiombe Wallace, LMFT

Tiombe Wallace, LMFT, holds a Master of Science in Counseling and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 20 years of experience providing clinical services, training, and supervision to professionals working with survivors of interpersonal trauma, including sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse. She also has over 20 years of experience facilitating healing art workshops with both trauma survivors and those who serve them. Clinicians benefit from her expertise in intersectionality, trauma-informed care, and training providers to work effectively with clients impacted by interpersonal trauma, oppression, and marginalization.

Course Schedule

Frequently Asked About Topics

Training cost is $1,500 (Limited regionally based scholarships available.) This fee includes ongoing access to 600+ art workshops, facilitation tools and resources to use with your participants, and free professional development opportunities.  Continuing Education Hours Cost is $120.

There are no refunds. AWBW does permit transferring your registration to training held at a later date, or to a coworker, after notifying and receiving approval at trainings@awbw.org. AWBW’s Director of Training provides guidance in transferring the registration.

Course Completion certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for a completed evaluation form. On time attendance of all instruction time is required for CE credit.

AWBW takes seriously the commitment to our community of practice to create trauma-informed, culturally relevant, and ethical learning and healing environments. Hearing a grievance or complaint is an opportunity for growth, remediation of the grievance, and strengthening relationships. The Director of Training & Outreach, Christy Turek Rials, or in cases where the grievance might include that staff member, the Director of Programs, Rudy Hernandez, will reply to all grievances within 3 business days to formulate a plan for any remediation or to answer questions and concerns of the participant. If the response to the grievance is unsatisfactory, the Executive Director, Zachery Scott-Hillel will handle any additional needs of the complainant to assist them in a satisfactory outcome from their grievance, free from retaliation or unfairness.

To request accommodations, please email trainings@awbw.org

AWBW (Provider #1000151) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s and LEP’s. AWBW maintains responsibility for the program and all its content.

Acceptance of continuing education hours is determined by each licensing board. Participants are responsible for confirming whether these hours meet the requirements for their specific license and state.