Michele Rattigan: Normalizing a Pause

Send us Fan MailMichele Rattigan, DHSc, (pronouns: she/her) is a registered, board-certified art therapist and nationally certified, licensed professional counselor with specializations in trauma, post-partum depression and anxiety, disordered eating and body image concerns, self-harming behaviors and dissociative disorders. Her teaching philosophy is informed by Universal Design for Learning and focuses on the dynamic teacher-student relationship and presence as pedagogy to support student growth that is trauma-informed, compassionate, socially mindful and grounded in cultural humility. The intersections of daily arts practices, creativity, well-being, mindfulness, self- and community compassion, interdisciplinary collaboration and equity in mental health care influence her work as a clinician, artist, writer researcher, volunteer, national presenter, keynote speaker and 25 years as an educator.Rattigan is currently the creative arts therapies clinical coordinator at Stephen and Sandra Sheller 11th Street Family Health Services where she supervises and co-facilitates art therapy with Drexel practicum and internship art therapy and counseling students. Interview was recorded on 2/2/24