Healing with Brainspotting, Poetry, Music, and Art
“Healing with Brainspotting, Poetry, Music, and Art” with Kristy Snedden, LCSW and Colleen Klym, LMFT, MT-BC
October 23, 2026 from 12-1:30PM Mountain Time
Recording Available; 1.5 CE Hours Provided with $15 additional purchase
This experiential presentation provides a safe space for participants to learn and increase their felt-sense of limbic counter-transference and process limbic counter-transference through expressive arts.Participants will be led and supported in a group brainspotting and expressive arts journey, allowing for a safe opportunity to experiment with and learn how to use Brainspotting and creativity to process clinical issues and/or limbic countertransference.
Clinicians will leave with ideas on how to integrate expressive arts and Brainspotting into their own practice with clients or as a way to process and release the limbic countertransference that is inevitable for clinicians providing Brainspotting sessions. There will be time for a personal and technical debrief where questions about this process and the integration of Expressive Arts and Brainspotting can be answered.
Kristy Snedden, LCSW (she/her/hers) is a trauma therapist, an Approved Brainspotting Consultant, poet, artist, and musician. She lives in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains of northeast Georgia where she maintains a full-time private practice treating clients who range in age from the very young to the very old. She specializes in working with creativity and trauma and integrates Brainspotting, Expressive Arts, and other brain-body approaches to bring forth deep healing. She has developed or co-developed numerous trainings, including Brainspotting, Reiki, and Poetry to Deepen Healing; Healing with Brainspotting, Music, Poetry, and Art; Brainspotting Through the Poet’s Eye; and Brainspotting Radical Creativity. Kristy is a poet, whose poetry appears or is forthcoming in a variety national and international on-line and print journals and anthologies. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best of the Net nominee. She is the founding editor of Bone to Brain: The International Journal of Poetry, Prose, Art, and Healing, the Brainspotting Creative Journal devoted to providing a safe space for anyone touched by the power of Brainspotting to share their work. When not working or writing, she can be found hiking or hanging out listening to her husband and their dogs tell tall tales.
Colleen Klym LMFT, MT-BC (she, her, hers) is a trauma therapist, a board-certified music therapist, an Approved Brainspotting Consultant, Clinical Supervisor, singer, and songwriter. She lives in South Lake Tahoe CA where she provides clinical supervision to therapists at a non-profit agency focused on strengthening secure attachment and treating children ages to 0-5 and their families along with a private practice where she works with all ages, couples and families. Her approach is grounded in the Neuroexperiential Model and Interpersonal Neurobiology. She specializes in working with complex trauma through an attachment lens using a combination of Brainspotting, music therapy, sand play, play therapy and art. She is lead assistant for the Brainspotting Phase 1 training for Music Therapists and provides group and individual training and consultation to therapists interested in learning about integrating expressive arts and Brainspotting or using expressive arts to learn about attachment theory. She writes and sings songs to heal herself and others. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, planning travels and outdoor adventures of hiking, boating, mountain biking and camping in Lake Tahoe, CA with her husband and three children.