“Poetry, Prose, and the Power of Brainspotting” with Kristy Snedden, LCSW & poet James Diaz
Poetry, Prose, and the Power of Brainspotting is a webinar designed to introduce Brainspotting clinicians to the power of Brainspotting to unlock the creative writing process and use the client’s inherent creativity to deeply support the healing process. The webinar includes an introduction with my guest, James Diaz.* The webinar presents the basics of the creative writing process, Brainspotting applications with clients including client examples with different age groups, and Brainspotting and Writing group experiences. Two brief but powerful experientials are embedded in the webinar.
Kristy Snedden, LCSW has been a Brainspotting enthusiast since 2013 and is a Brainspotting consultant with a specialty consultant endorsement in Brainspotting with Children and Adolescents. She runs “Brainspotting Through the Poet’s Eye” which is a monthly group for Brainspotting therapists/writers and she offers on-line webinars and writing retreats. She lives in the Appalachian Mountains of northeast Georgia where she maintains a full-time private practice treating clients of all ages. She specializes in working with trauma, attachment, and creativity, with a special interest in Brainspotting and Creative Writing. In her spare time, Kristy is a poet, whose poetry appears or is forthcoming in a variety national and international on-line and print journals and anthologies, most recently storySouth, CV2, The Examined Life Journal, and The Power of the Pause Anthology. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2023 recipient of the Small Orange Press Emerging Woman Poet prize. She serves as the Book Review Editor for Anti-Heroin Chic and studies at Phillip Schulz’s Writers Studio.
(*James Diaz, an established poet who founded and is the editor in chief of Anti-Heroin Chic, an online collective journal of poetry, photography, art work, essays, interviews and more established in 2015 to create community and support for those suffering from addictions and trauma.)
