Digital psychotherapy and creative media
5.-6. Sept: Oslo, Litteraturhuset + streaming (given enough interested parties)
Registration here (https://www.letsreg.com/no/register/digitalpsykoterapiogkreativemedia_14052025015931#/)
Friday, 5 September
13:30-14:00 Registration, coffee/tea, sign up workshop
14:00-14:15 Opening by Berit Aanesen, Chairperson of NFIT
14:15-15:00 Psychologist Mari Skoge, about her research project “Behind the screen: Therapists’ Digital Practices”
Break
15:15-16:15 Prof.dr.mult. Hilarion G. Petzold: Co-creative psychotherapy with “creative media” and “art methods” online and off-line– experience activation, process intensification, emotional regulation
Break
16:45-18:45 Workshop 1 and 2
Workshop 1: Prof.dr.mult. Hilarion G. Petzold: “Charting with creative media in dealing with anxiety for diagnostics and therapy/ counselling – also in an online setting”
Workshop 2: Lotti Müller: Processual diagnostics based on the five pillars of identity
Saturday, 6 September
09:00-09.45 Dr. Markus Böckle: Potentials, Challenges, and Effectiveness of Digital Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and the Use of Creative Media in Teletherapy
Break
10:00-12:00 Workshop 3 and 4
Workshop 3: Dr. Markus Böckle: «Creative Media in Online Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Experiencing Digital Therapeutic Tools in Practice”
Workshop 4: Ingunn Vatnøy: “Panoramic techniques as a tool for personal evaluation in counsellor education” (in Norwegian)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 N.N., Microsoft Norway (?) (technical tools to support “creative co-creation”, data safety and some general aspects of working through the screen)
Break
14:30-16:30 Workshop 5 and 6
Workshop 5: Emese Németh: ART IN SUPERVISION - Creative and Artistic Media for Deeper Understanding and Self-Reflection
Workshop 6: Runa Bosnes Engen: (on experiences with using music in the HOMESIDE-project)
16:40-17:00 Closure
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PRESENTATION OF LECTURERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Mari Skoge: Psychologist, working on a doctoral project on digitalisation of treatment in mental health care. Employed at the Regional Competence Centre for Early Intervention in Psychosis (TIPS South-East), Oslo University Hospital, affiliated with the Research Centre for Digital Mental Health Services (Forhelse) and the University of Oslo.
Lecture: Behind the screen: Therapists’ digital practices
Prof. dr.mult. Hilarion G. Petzold: Psychologist, psychotherapist, teaching therapist, supervisor, scientific director of the EAG (Europäische Akademie für biopsychosoziale Gesundheit) based in Hückeswagen, Germany. Founder of Integrative therapy.
Lecture: Co-creative psychotherapy with “creative media” and “art methods” online and off-line - experience activation, process intensification, emotional regulation
Workshop: “Charting with creative media in dealing with anxiety for diagnostics and therapy / counselling - also in an online setting”
Lotti Müller: Psychologist, Integrative psychotherapist, music therapist and counsellor in private practice / head of integrative psychotherapy studies at SEAG (CH) / long-standing head of the department for therapeutic services at PUK Zurich (geriatric psychiatry). President EAIT
Workshop: Processual diagnostics based on the five pillars of identity
Dr. Markus Böckle MSc: Integr. psychotherapist, teaching therapist, counsellor, cognitive biologist, senior postdoctoral fellow at the Karl Landsteiner Private University for Health Sciences, head of science and research at the Austrian Federal Association for Psychotherapy (ÖBVP), head of the Austrian network of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI).
Lecture: Potentials, Challenges, and Effectiveness of Digital Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and the Use of Creative Media in Teletherapy
Workshop: Creative Media in Online Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Experiencing Digital Therapeutic Tools in Practice
Ingunn Vatnøy is an integrative psychotherapist, counsellor and senior lecturer at the University of Southeast Norway. Since 2000, she has worked with integrative methods and creative techniques both theoretically, clinically and in teaching.
Workshop: Panoramic techniques as a tool for personal evaluation in counsellor training
Emese Németh is a Hungarian counsellor, coach and art therapist with an international background. She offers art-based guidance, coaching and training for individuals, teams and organisations. She is passionate about resilience, creativity and collaboration, and also supports UNICEF as a pro bono counsellor.
Workshop: ART IN SUPERVISION - Creative and Artistic Media for Deeper Understanding and Self-Reflection
Runa Bosnes Engen: Music therapist, many years of experience in the field of elderly health, with clinical music therapy work, as well as teaching and supervision of students and health professionals. Project work in dementia care and acute geriatrics. Music interventionist in the international research project HOMESIDE.
Workshop: Using music in digital spaces - opportunities and challenges.
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Registration here (https://www.letsreg.com/no/register/digitalpsykoterapiogkreativemedia_14052025015931#/)
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Description of the presentations/ workshops:
Friday, 5 September, at 14:15:
Mari Skoge will present findings from a new qualitative study on video therapy from the perspective of clinicians and managers in mental health services. 24 clinicians and managers were recruited from very different health services across the public and private sectors. Participants were interviewed about their experiences with and attitudes towards video therapy. The findings from the study show that there was a lack of consensus on what role video consultations should have in mental health care. The services implemented video in completely different ways and the attitudes of the participants were at times in stark contrast to each other. The study explores these practices and attitudes, and then looks to the future of video therapy in mental health care.
Friday, 5 September, at 15:15:
Prof. dr.mult. Petzold: Co-creative psychotherapy with “creative media” and “art methods” online and off-line– experience activation, process intensification, emotional regulation
Friday, 5 September, at 16:45: (workshop):
Prof. dr.mult. Petzold: “Charting with creative media in dealing with anxiety for diagnostics and therapy/counselling – also in an online setting”. Anxiety disorders are among the most common disorders and psychosocial problems. In the online setting, they are easy to tackle, because there they “cause less fear”. Interpersonal closeness is important in such therapies or consultations. Producing them in virtual space is usually more difficult than in a face-to-face setting. We use creative-media methods, such as the “Anxiety/Anxiety -Coping-Panorama”. In a first phase of work, all experiences of fear from childhood through the lifespan to the present day are presented on half of a large paper with wax crayons in shapes and colors in front of the camera (the other half of the paper remains empty for the time being). Client tells while drawing. In this way, the counselor/therapist can participate empathically, ask questions, can comment. This gives a good diagnostic overview of the types and the development of fears in the course of life and of special scenes, pathogenic anxiety situations and events. The therapist can support and calmdown and establish a good relationship. In a further design phase, all forms of fear management and aids by which fears could be mastered in the sense of a salutogenetic diagnosis are then recorded on the blank half of the sheet. This opens up first possibilities of anxiety therapy, in which methods of integrative tension-relaxation regulation, expressive movement, slam poetry, expressive painting are combined with behavioral methods of fear control. All this can be well instructed and accompanied on-line with further therapeutic interventions.
Friday, 5 September, at 16:45: (workshop):
Lotti Müller: «Processual diagnostics based on the five pillars of identity ». In this workshop, we will get to know and explore in depth Petzold’s “five pillars of identity” as a diagnostic and projective tool in therapy and self-exploration. In dealing with one’s own identity processes, ideas are developed and possibilities are reflected on how this methodological concept can also be used in an online setting in an insightful and experience-promoting way in counselling and therapy.
Saturday, 6 September, at 09:00:
Dr. Markus Böckle: «Potentials, Challenges, and Effectiveness of Digital Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and the Use of Creative Media in Teletherapy”. Digital transformation has profoundly reshaped the practice of psychotherapy with children and adolescents. Online and teletherapy services provide low-threshold access to care, particularly for young people who are hard to reach or socially isolated. The COVID-19 pandemic acted as a catalyst, accelerating the expansion of digital psychosocial services while also revealing their limitations. Recent studies demonstrate that internet-based therapy and peer-to-peer interventions can produce treatment effects comparable to traditional face-to-face therapy, particularly in addressing anxiety, depression, and social isolation. In addition to discussing current evidence and key implementation challenges, this presentation highlights the integration of creative media, such as drawing, digital storytelling, body-oriented techniques, and therapeutic use of sound and movement, as powerful tools in online therapy. These approaches enhance self-awareness, promote emotional expression, and help strengthen the therapeutic alliance, even in virtual formats. The lecture invites reflection on the therapeutic potential of combining relational presence with digital tools, emphasizing the importance of developmentally sensitive, embodied, and imaginative methods in digital child and adolescent psychotherapy.
Saturday, 6 September, at 10:00 (workshop):
Dr. Markus Böckle: Creative Media in Online Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Experiencing Digital Therapeutic Tools in Practice. This interactive workshop provides participants with the opportunity to explore and experience creative and body-oriented interventions that can be effectively applied in online psychotherapy with young clients. Based on the integrative therapy model, we will utilize digital adaptations of proven methods. Participants will gain personal insight into how these tools can be effectively transferred into the digital space, enabling them to evoke connection, emotional depth, and therapeutic resonance even through a screen. The workshop encourages therapists to expand their digital “toolbox” in meaningful and imaginative ways, helping to reduce professional scepticism and to bring the full potential of integrative therapy into the digital space.
Saturday, 6 September, at 10:00 (workshop):
Ingunn Vatnøy: Panoramic techniques as a tool for personal evaluation in counsellor education. Panoramic techniques are visual and spatial methods used to map and evaluate your own experiences, challenges and learning processes. By creating an overview - a "panorama" - of one's own development, it becomes easier to identify connections, patterns and opportunities for further learning. These techniques are particularly useful in counselling, organisational development and education, where they contribute to increased reflection, self-awareness and learning. The workshop begins with the speaker's experiences from digital teaching in counsellor education, and shows how digital tools can strengthen reflection processes and learning outcomes.
Saturday, 6 September, at 14.30 (workshop):
Emese Németh: ART IN SUPERVISION. Creative and Artistic Media for Deeper Understanding and Self-Reflection. Thought - Inspiration - Inner Picture - Creation- Reflection - Action. Artistic and creative media, art-based methodologies help us to connect not only to ourselves as professionals but to individuals, groups, communities of all ages with diverse social backgrounds across cultures. The use of art tools in supervision helps us to create and display inner pictures on which by reflection we gain a deeper understanding that can increase the motivation to take action. Participants of this workshop will learn through their own experience of art creation and reflections about the possibilities of using different artworks and tools for different situations in supervision which is followed by a discussion of the individual experiences during the workshop and ideas about further possibilities.
Saturday, 6. September, kl. 14.30 (workshop):
Runa Bosnes Engen: Using music in digital spaces - opportunities and challenges. The workshop is based on experiences from the research project HOMESIDE (completed 2023), where people with dementia and their caregivers were guided in the use of music to strengthen relationships and reduce psychological and behavioral symptoms of dementia. In the workshop, participants gain insight into music therapy both in general and specifically aimed at elderly health and geriatric psychiatry, what opportunities and challenges lie in moving musical expression into digital spaces, and they get to take part in activities used in the study.
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Interesting articles (in chronological order):
Müller, L., Petzold, H.G. (1998): Projektive und semiprojektive Verfahren für die Diagnostik von Störungen, Netzwerken und Komorbidität in der Integrativen Therapie von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Integrative Therapie 3-4, 396-438. http://www.fpi-publikation.de/polyloge/alle-ausgaben/06-2012-mueller-l-petzold-h-g-projektive-und-semiprojektive-verfahren-fuer-die-diagnostik.html
Petzold, H.G., Orth, I. (1994a/2012): Kreative Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik durch “mediengestützte Techniken” in der Integrativen Therapie und Beratung. Integrative Therapie 4 (1994) 340-391. http://www.fpi-publikation.de/polyloge/alle-ausgaben/03-2012-petzold-h-orth-i-1994a-kreative-persoenlichkeitsdiagnostik-durch-mediengestuetzte.html
Petzold, H. G. (2014i): Integrative Depressionsbehandlung auf neurowissenschaftlicher Grundlage – Veränderung des „depressiven Lebensstils“ mit „Bündeln“ komplexer Maßnahmen in der „Dritten Welle“ Integrativer Therapie. http://www.fpi-publikation.de/images/stories/downloads/textarchiv-petzold/petzold-2014i-integrative-depressionsbehandlung-neurowissenschaftliche-grundlage-dritte-welle.pdf
Petzold, H. G. (2014h): Depression ist grau! – die Behandlung grün: Die “neuen Naturtherapien”. Green Exercises & Green Meditation in der integrativen Depressionsbehandlung. Green Care 4/2014 Textarchiv 2014. http://www.fpi-publikation.de/images/stories/downloads/textarchiv-petzold/petzold-2014h-depression-ist-grau-therapie-gruen-neue-naturtherapien-in-der-depressionsbehandlung.pdf
Petzold, H. G. (2023c): Praxeologisches: Supervision “auf dem Weg” - Zur Out-Door-Praxis supervisorischer Arbeit: Feldentwicklung, Walk & Talk, Green Exercises Embedded in Nature and Time. Ein erläutertes Interview mit Hilarion G. Petzold zu Problemen von Praxeologie, Ökologie, Zeit und mehr in der Supervision, SUPERVISION 3/2023. https://www.fpi-publikation.de/supervision/03-2023-petzold-h-g-2023c-praxeologisches-supervision-auf-dem-weg-zur-out-door-praxis-supervisorischer-arbeit-feldentwicklung-walk-talk-green-exercises-embedded-in-n/
Good Practice in Action 107 Research Overview: Using digital technology in the counselling professions is published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2019. https://www.bacp.co.uk/media/6308/bacp-using-digital-technology-in-counselling-professions-research-overview-gpia107-july2019.pdf
Randi Laukli, De som jobber med psykisk helse fikk digitalt sjokk, i forskning.no, 05.06.2020. https://www.forskning.no/helsetjenester-nasjonalt-senter-for-e-helse-forskning-partner/de-som-jobber-med-psykisk-helse-fikk-digitalt-sjokk/1690943
Tore Tennøe, Teknologirådet, Digitale muligheter for psykisk helsehjelp, august 2021.https://teknologiradet.no/publication/digitale-muligheter-for-psykisk-helsehjelp/
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Rebecca Godard, Susan Holtzman, Are active and passive social media use related to mental health, wellbeing, and social support outcomes? A meta-analysis of 141 studies, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2024. https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/29/1/zmad055/7595758?login=false
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Arne Repål, Kreativitet, i Tidsskrift for kognitiv atferdsterapi, 28. juni 2024.https://tidsskrift.kognitiv.no/kreativitet/
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Sara Lindberg, Online Therapy for Depression, jan. 2025. https://www-verywellmind-com.translate.goog/online-therapy-for-depression-4842904?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=rq
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Chen, B., Li, J., Qi, Y. et al. Comparative effectiveness and acceptability of internet-based psychological interventions on depression in young people: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. BMC Psychiatry 25, 321 (2025). https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-025-06757-9
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