SS8. | Special Series on Trauma Response with Nicole Porter Davis | Relapse Prevention

Specializing in early childhood, acute assessment, trauma treatment, family development and community outreach, Nicole Porter Davis is noted for her immediate response in Newtown, CT initiating art therapy services following the horrifying massacre at Sandy Hook School. She was invited to Director Child Therapy for the Sandy Hook Healing Project days after the tragedy. Ms. Davis later established the Emerald Sketch, LLC employing an art therapy response team of independent clinicians bridging the gap for trauma services first for Newtown, CT. 

Now she is the founding Director of Emerald Sketch A.R.T., Inc. a non-profit designed to help mobilize clinicians anywhere in the world set up sustainable Creative Arts therapy services immediately after any horrifying trauma. Her current focus has been on the American migrant child crisis training practitioners as well as mobilizing Art therapy response for the traumatized children of Brooklyn. Nicole recently co-authored the first trauma response ‘Manual” for The Red Pencil, an international humanitarian organization providing Creative Arts therapies to the global community. 

In addition to her clinical work, Nicole's latest Creative work was the development of An American Nightmare, a solo performance that debuted off broadway in NYC, July 2019. Her Performance Art experience began at a very young age. She co-wrote and performed music in Philadelphia asThe JillRabbits, 2005-2014. Prior to this Nicole studied Theater Arts, Dance, Music, and Art throughout her entire childhood. She then developed her focus into Fine Art and Psychology during her undergraduate studies. She maintains a handful of private clients in Brooklyn and the greater New York community, and provides online clinical supervision and training for Creative Arts Therapists. Thrive Global publishes her latest stories online.

Listen & Learn:

• A systematic arts therapy approach to providing treatment in response to large scale trauma
• The importance of choice in work with clients
• Benefits of double handed scribbling techniques
• Tools for anchoring the therapeutic experience
• Role of a good-bye ritual 
• And the benefits of integrating the community in the healing process.



RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:
Emerald Sketch A.R.T.

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