Based in Downers Grove, Illinois, Azizi is the Founder and CEO of Center for Creative Arts Therapy. She is a professional Speaker, Trainer and Advocate for social justice, community wellness, creative arts therapy and women's empowerment. She a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, Theatre Educator and Director, and Professional Choreographer and Dancer with more than 20 years of extensive experience leading educational and non-profit organizations.
Azizi completed Alternative Training in Drama Therapy from Kansas State University and has a Masters in Community Counseling from Northeastern Illinois University and a Masters in Theatre from Northeastern Illinois University.
CLINICAL POPULATION:
- Recovering Substance Abusers
- Adolescents
- Adults
- People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities including Autism Sepcturm Disorder and K-adult
- Older Adults with normal cognition
- Children through adults with varying diagnoses
- Behavioral issues
- Body image
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Social Justice issues
DRAMA THERAPY APPROACH:
- Expanding from a lens of counseling and the clinical applications of theatre with youth
- Performance as social justice advocacy and community building
APPROACH TO WORKING WITH STUDENTS:
- Combines counseling theory along with clinical and theatrical applications
- Encourages students to find their own voice within their work and to discover how their voice may best meet the needs of their clients and community
COURSES & TRAINING OFFERED:
- Principles of Drama Therapy
- Therapeutic Theatre
- Theatre of the Oppressed
- Psychodrama
- Sociodrama
- Drama Therapy with Adolescents
- Expressive Arts Therapy
- Creative Arts Therapies
- Grieving through the Arts
- PTSD and Expressive Arts Therapy
- Drama Therapy with the Terminally Ill
- Teleconference Consultations for individuals and groups working with adolescents with behavioral challenges, social justice and therapeutic theatre which can be used as alternative training credit if arranged in advance.
- For information about training opportunities and other offerings, check out the Center for Creative Arts Therapy.
- Azizi is also a part of Center for Creative Arts Therapy in the Chicagoland area. A full list of current courses offered can be found on the institute's training page.