Episode 823: Drama Therapy and Trauma with Myriam D. Savage, Ph.D
The Trauma Therapist
Guy Crawford Macpherson
4.5 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Savage is also founding faculty for the Arts and Healing Initiative (formerly UCLArts and Healing) in the Social Emotional Arts (SEA) program, where she collaborated with a team of creative art therapists, creating curricula and manualized professional development programs that use various modalities for therapists, artists, and educators. Conference topics and publications include narrative, arts-based research, and drama therapy interventions using digital art apps, exploring self-identity with young women adopted from foster care and facilitating unhoused women on skid row, LA.
Dr. Savage has published in peer review journals and books. She recently penned a chapter -- called "Bricolage: On Being Enough, Healing Through Narrative Co-Construction" -- for a new book edited by social worker/author Susan Pease Banitt: a collection of essays called Behind the Curtain: Eleven Women Therapists Get Real about Healing Trauma.
Dr. Savage's previous clinical work consists of mainly acute settings such as inpatient psychiatric units for adults and children, residential treatment facilities where she created expressive arts programs, neurodiverse populations and the unhoused. She has served as the North American Drama Therapy education chair and directs SoCal Drama Therapy Center (http://www.socaldramatherapycenter.com/) where she mentors an international student body of professionals and students who want to become registered drama therapists.
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| 2:20.8 | four, three, two, and one. Our folks, welcome back to the podcast. Very excited to have us |
| 2:26.9 | my guest today, Dr. Mimi Savage. Mimi, welcome. Thank you. Glad to be here. You're welcome. Awesome. |
| 2:33.7 | So Mimi is registered drama therapist and board certified trainer who's an associate professor at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco in the Master of Counseling, Psychology, and Expressive Arts, Program. She's a core faculty member teaching courses as human development and family, group dynamics, arts and therapy, and professional development. |
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| 3:03.0 | Mimi, welcome to the podcast. |
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