Crafting Therapeutic Rituals: Personalized Interventions for Change
Presented by
Dreya Blume, LCSWThis training invites you to explore the art and science of crafting therapeutic rituals tailored to individual clients’ needs, beliefs, and goals. You will learn key elements that make rituals psychologically potent, common pitfalls to avoid, and practical strategies for co-creating rituals with clients across a wide range of presenting issues.
Overview
2 Cultural Competence CEs Recorded: December, 2025
Rituals have long been used across cultures to mark transitions, process grief, celebrate growth, and catalyze healing. In therapy, the thoughtful creation of personalized rituals can offer clients a powerful, embodied way to integrate change and deepen emotional shifts.
This training invites you to explore the art and science of crafting therapeutic rituals tailored to individual clients’ needs, beliefs, and goals. You will learn key elements that make rituals psychologically potent, common pitfalls to avoid, and practical strategies for co-creating rituals with clients across a wide range of presenting issues.
This training balances theory with hands-on practice. Through real-world examples, experiential exercises, and group discussion, you will learn how to design rituals that are meaningful, ethical, and culturally sensitive. You will leave with greater confidence in using ritual as an intentional clinical tool — whether to support grief work, life transitions, trauma healing, identity shifts, or the solidification of therapeutic gains.
Workshop objectives:
Describe the psychological functions and therapeutic benefits of ritual in clinical practice. Identify key elements that make a therapeutic ritual effective, meaningful, and safe for clients. Design a personalized therapeutic ritual tailored to a specific client goal or clinical theme.
About the Presenter
Dreya Blume (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, author, and educator. Dreya began working in the mental health field in 2004 in southwest Virginia, where she spent almost two decades serving the local transgender community as a gender therapist. She recently moved to Durham, NC, where she focuses on offering continuing education training to therapists and coaching for private practice clinicians who want to expand their business uniquely. Dreya loves to write and is the author of several books, including, “The Tarot Activity Book: A Collection of Creative and Therapeutic Ideas for the Cards,” “Journaling the Tarot,” “Everyone Has a Story: Using the Hero’s Journey and Narrative Therapy to Reframe the Struggle of Mental Illness,” and “Tarot for Transformation: Using the Major Arcana to Discover Your Best Self and Create a Life Worth Living.” All of Dreya’s books (under her former name, Andy Matzner) are available here: https://dreyablume.com/books. Dreya is also passionate about teaching. Before becoming a mental health clinician, she spent many years teaching English as a Second Language in places such as Japan, Australia, Thailand, and Hawaii. Once in Virginia, Dreya worked as an adjunct professor for almost twenty years at Hollins University, teaching gender studies and sociology in their Master of Liberal Studies program. In addition, she spent twelve years teaching future social workers in the human services program at Virginia Western Community College. Learn more about Dreya on her website: https://dreyablume.com/.