Poetry Therapy Mentoring

Ingrid Tegnér, MSW, CAPF, Certified Mentor

After completing a two year training program in Poetry Therapy at St Elizabeths Hospital in Washington DC in the early 1990s, Ingrid Tegnér completed a Master of Social Work at University of Maryland at Baltimore. She worked in the Baltimore/Washington DC area as a clinical poetry therapist. Her work assignments included a residential treatment center for adolescents, writing groups with cancer survivors, as well as non-clinical groups with women, active elders and children. She became a poetry therapy Mentor/Supervisor in 2005, now called Certified Mentor and continues to mentor non-clinical poetry facilitators in conjunction with the International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy.

If you are interested in pursuing the credential of Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator (CAPF), please go to www.ifbpt.org and download the Training Guide to learn more about this process. If you have questions after reading the Training Guide, click the button below and fill in the form to set up a free half-hour zoom consultation.