Liz is a clinical researcher and has presented and published on ways that interoceptive awareness and dance/movement therapy support healing from traumatic brain injury and psychological health disorders such as anxiety, depression, and post traumatic stress.

Research Competitions and Posters:

National Capital Area Neurotrauma Society, National Institutes of Health (NIH) “Changes in Interceptive Awareness during the NICoE Intensive Outpatient Program” (2025)

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Department of Research Programs Research & Innovations Competition “Changes in Interoceptive Awareness during the NICoE Intensive Outpatient Program” (2025)

Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) “Interoceptive Awareness” (2025)

World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) “Creative Resilience: The Role of the Arts and Creative Arts Therapies in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery” (2025)

Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics “Key Aspects of Movement Assessment in Dance/Movement Therapy: Insights from Therapists” (2025)

Publications:

 Vaudreuil, R., Freeman, E. K., Herman, J., McLaughlan, N., & Chilton, G. (2024). Reflecting on JMVFH’s most popular article of 2021: ‘Creative forces programming with military families: Art therapy, dance/movement therapy, and music therapy brief vignettes.’ Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, 10(4-EN), 96–99. https://doi.org/10.3138/jmvfh-0718-0016

Winters-Fisher, A., Freeman, E. K. (2022). Dance/Movement Therapy with Active Duty and Veteran Military Populations. In R. Dieterich-Hartwell & A. M. Melsom (Eds.), Dance/movement therapy for trauma survivors: Theoretical, clinical and cultural perspectives. Routledge.

Chilton, G., Vaudreuil, R., Freeman, E. K., McLaughlan, N., Herman, J., & Cozza, S. J. (2021). Creative Forces programming with military families: Art therapy, dance/movement therapy, and music therapy brief vignettes. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health. https://doi.org/10.3138/jmvfh- 2021-0031

Vaudreuil, R., Kass, S., Freeman, E., & Walker, M. (2021). Creative Forces®: NEA Healing Arts Network -Expanding Creative Arts Therapies in the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. In Music therapy with military and veteran populations: Foundations of clinical practice, community programming, and research. Essay, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.