Boundaries & Belonging: An Arts-Based Approach

Send us Fan MailIn this episode Sam Haid, former student and current supervisee and dear human, interviews the host! Sam Haid is a licensed counselor, art therapist, and artist currently residing in Colorado. He is licensed in Colorado, New Mexico, and a nationally registered art therapist. Sam is a queer, gay cisgender man of European descent. Sam is the founder of Infinite Wheel, a private practice supporting predominantly LGBTQ+ individuals in Colorado and New Mexico. Sam has worked in a variety of settings including community health agencies, community art therapy studios, youth shelters, and private group practice. He has co-facilitated several therapeutic groups. Sam received his Masters in Art Therapy/Counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2021 and his Bachelors of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016.Magdalena Karlick, Ph.D-c, ATR-BC, LPCC is the owner of Our Imaginal World an organization that provides individual and group therapy, arts and somatic based supervision, post graduate education, community health consultation for agencies, as well as commissioned art installations.  She has been an educator in the Art Therapy, Expressive Arts, and Counseling fields since 2012, focusing on Cultural Humility, Somatic Awareness, Ethics, Group Dynamics, and Creative Arts Techniques. Currently she teaches for the Kint Institute in NYC, a post-graduate creative arts therapy and trauma training in-person program. For a number of years she was the Art Director for Tomorrow’s Women, working with Palestinian and Israeli youth during an international summer camp intensive in New Mexico, and co-created a trauma therapy support network for staff and alumnae of this program during the most recent outbreak of violence. The Boundaries & Belonging Podcast focuses on educators in the United States, who are teaching in colleges and universities, In graduate and Ph.D programs within the expressive arts therapies umbrella.Episode recorded on 9/20/24.

Send us Fan MailMaríaluisa Díaz de León Zuloaga: My professional experience in psychology, somatics, and the arts spans over twenty-five years and includes work in education, private practice, community intervention, and organizational development. I am the creator of Mythic Life: Embodying Wisdom, Beauty and Courage. Through Mythic Life I facilitate meaningful and transformational experiences to women from all over the globe. I developed a mythosomatic framework, which is a forward thinking integration of myth, arts, somatic movement and archetypal psychology. This framework, while embodied in my professional praxis and ethos, is articulated in an unpublished collection of academic essays, Somaphilia: Re-membering the Soul and the Aesthetics of Being, which is my masters’ thesis. I am a registered Expressive Arts Therapist through the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, and I am a registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator from ISMETA -the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. I served on the ISMETA Board of Directors for nine consecutive years, the last three as Board President. Through my Board service I gained organizational embodied leadership and insights into the work that it takes to collectively support an emerging field and profession. I continue to serve as a volunteer in the Professional Standards and Equity, Justice, and Accessibility Committees. I enjoy collaborating with the ISMETA Board of Directors to grow the field of somatic movement and advance the profession of somatic movement.As an adjunct faculty at Southwestern College I teach graduate courses on the concentration on Consciousness in Action; as well as in the community programs through the New Earth Institute. I am an Associate Teacher at Tamalpa Institute where I previously served as Program Director and core faculty.  I supervise advanced students’ fieldwork projects and also offer public workshops where I highlight and celebrate the Tamalpa Life/Art Process in my life’s work.The Boundaries & Belonging Podcast focuses on educators in the United States, who are teaching in colleges and universities, In graduate and Ph.D programs within the expressive arts therapies umbrella.Interview recorded on 12/4/2023.

Send us Fan MailDr. Elizabeth Markman is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC), board-certified art therapist (ATR-BC), and Art Therapy Credentialed Supervisor (ATCS) who obtained her Ph.D. in Art Therapy from Adler University. She uses a wide variety of expressive art forms in her practice as well as talk therapy.Elizabeth works with a diverse range of clients in both group and individual sessions and offers a safe, non-judgmental environment that supports her clients as they move toward healing & personal growth. Elizabeth has a passion for incorporating the arts into psychotherapy that is rooted in her own experiences as an artist and utilizes an intermodal approach to creative arts therapies that can be defined as pointing to an integrated application of the arts. Elizabeth believes that part of the therapeutic process is to “rouse the creative life-force energy”. Thus, creativity and therapy overlap. What is creative is frequently therapeutic. What is therapeutic is frequently a creative process.Elizabeth’s background includes a demonstrated history of working in the residential and supportive housing non-profit industry. She is skilled in crisis intervention, clinical supervision, treatment planning, psychological assessment, conflict resolution, and interventions. Populations she has worked with include children struggling in social and/or classroom situations, sexually aggressive youth, youth questioning their gender and/or sexuality, adults living with life-changing diagnoses, formerly homeless and marginalized populations, and the severely persistently mentally ill.Interview recorded on 2/9/24.

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

Send us Fan MailDr. Gwen Sanders, Ph.D., LMFT, ATR-BC, ATCS, has taught at several Universities and is the most recent Director of Clinical Practicum Training for Dominican University Art Therapy Psychology program. She is the recipient of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) annually designated Distinguished Clinician Award in 2019 and Notre Dame de Namur University’s most prestigious student nominated George M. Keller Award for teaching excellence in 2016. Gwen has taken students on 5 service-learning community projects to Central America working with multigenerational survivors of war trauma. Dr. Sanders has a private practice in Oakland California since 1996 providing adults and couples therapy. She has worked with emotionally disturbed youth and their families, been a Military Family Life Consultant to the Army on 4 - thirty to forty five day rotations in Europe, and has been a Clinical Supervisor for twenty five years. She is a HLM and Past President of the Northern California Art Therapy Association (NorCATA), a California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT) Certified Supervisor since 2003 and an Art Therapy Certified Supervisor.*Corrections for the interview: -Dominican University (of California) is in San Rafael, NOT is in Santa Rosa. -Dr. Sanders meant to mention that  oil painting is her medium, she loves working on thickly gessoed paper with grease pencil.This episode was recorded on 1/22/24.

Send us Fan MailErin Partridge, PhD, ATR-BC (she/her) is an artist and board certified, registered art therapist. Erin received a BFA, studying fine art, psychology and women’s studies at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 2006. She went onto obtain a MA in art therapy from New York University in 2008, and a PhD in art therapy from Notre Dame de Namur in 2016.Erin’s teaching and lecturing experience includes teaching at NDNU, Dominican University of California and Lewis & Clark College in the art therapy departments, guest lectures in art and counseling programs, mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, workshop facilitation at national and international conferences, and interviews with media about art therapy. Her clinical experience includes work in community, pediatric, forensic, and geriatric settings and she is published in the areas of art therapy, elder care, and technology. Her research interests incorporate the lived experience and focus on participatory, ethnographic, and art-based approaches. Her first book, Art therapy with older adults: Connected and empowered was published February 2019. Her second book, Getting on In The Creative Arts Therapies: A Hands-On Guide to Personal and Professional Development was published February 2021.Erin is also a Certified Forest Therapy Guide and an ERYT.This episode was recorded on 1/12/24.

Send us Fan MailMichael currently serves as Director of the Art Therapy & Creativity Development program at Pratt Institute. Prior to returning to Pratt in Summer 2022, Michael served on the faculty at Antioch University Seattle from 2011-2021, and has been fortunate to work with individual clients and offer art therapy supervision in private practice since 2014. With 19 years of clinical experience in a host of settings with diverse array of clients, including originating the role of boundary spanner in mental health court and serving as coordinator for a FACT (Forensic Assertive Community Treatment) Program in Seattle and King County, Michael holds a steadfast commitment to anti-oppression and liberation work, founded in the belief that all beings hold unique, creative potential and an innate capacity for compassion, connection, and change.Michael utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to teaching, learning, and practicing, incorporating visual art, movement, film/video, poetry, music, drama, and play in his work with students and clients. As a queer artist, educator, and therapist, he remains perpetually curious about what is “on the other side” of all things, and hopes to continue to foster a confidence and courage in his clients and students as they dare to do the same.

Send us Fan MailChristina Devereaux, Ph.D., LPC, LMHC, LCAT, BC-DMT, NCC (she/her) completed a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology and a master’s degree in Dance/Movement Therapy from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Devereaux is licensed as a Creative Arts Therapist and Mental Health Counselor in the state of New York and licensed as a Professional Counselor in the state of Pennsylvania. She is Board Certified as a Dance/Movement Therapist (ADTA), and a Nationally Certified Counselor (NBCC) with 25 years working in the field of mental health as a therapist, educator, supervisor, consultant, and trainer supporting DMT professionals in 4 continents. Dr. Devereaux is a full-time tenure-track faculty at Rider University in Department of Education, Leadership, and Counseling for the MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with Dance/Movement Therapy Concentration (CACREP-accredited) and as an adjunct Visiting Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute in the Department of Creative Arts Therapies in Brooklyn, NY.   She held leadership positions for other university programs including Associate Clinical Professor and Program Director for the Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling MA program at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, USA and Program Director for the Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling MA program at Antioch University New England (Keene, NH, USA).Dr. Devereaux is the former co-editor of the American Journal of Dance Therapy from 2011-2017 and a two-time President's Award recipient from the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) for her outstanding contributions to the profession (2008 and 2017). She was featured on National Public Radio (NPR), CCTV, the largest television station in China, and as a presenter for the 2014 ADTA Talks series focusing on DMT and autism. In addition to authoring many chapters and journal publications, she has a blog with Psychology Today “Meaning in motion: Dancing with the mind in mind." Christina is a recognized scholar and national and international presenter specializing in dance/movement therapy with attachment disorders, autism spectrum disorders, trauma, clinical supervision, mind-body integration and embodied understanding of neurobiology.

Send us Fan MailSean Plunkett, ATR-BC, LCAT I’m a board certified licensed Creative Arts Therapist who earned his masters at Pratt Institute in 2013. I am also a painter, curator, photographer, writer, lecturer, and jack of all trades.  In my practice I emphasize that the goal is not to make beautiful art, but to make something meaningful to the creator. My interest and expertise is in working with what comes up when life when circumstances force us to adjust and grow. I work within the framework of a humanistic, transparent, client-centered perspective, which emphasizes the inherent goodness of all humans. I work to improve client resilience, independence, decision-making & life competence, while gaining self-awareness. 

Send us Fan MailEmery Hurst Mikel, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT, LPAT is the founder and director of Water & Stone, a Creative Arts Therapy PLLC and Firefly & Phoenix LLC, a company for professionals interested in entrepreneurial coaching.Water & Stone is currently comprised of an extraordinary group of women who offer creative arts therapy and wellness coaching to individual clients and groups. In her therapy work, Emery focuses on women’s issues, grief and loss, end of life, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, as well as caregiver burnout. W&S grew out of Emery’s experiences living and working in Colorado, Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Long Island, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. To help other therapists interested in similar work she authored The Art of Business: A Guide for Creative Arts Therapists… (JKP, 2013) which focuses on contracting and business basics.Firefly & Phoenix has programs and 1:1 mentoring for those embarking on or journeying through the adventure that is self-employment/private practice. This grew out of the ever-evolving world Emery has created to help professionals in the healing and wellness industries create the work they dream of and along those lines she is currently working on her second book focused more specifically on private practice and starting a company.Along with these pursuits she mentors other therapists, offers continuing education workshops, supervises interns, guest lectures at George Washington University and is adjunct faculty at Nazareth University. She received her MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology: Art Therapy from Naropa University in Boulder, CO.

Send us Fan MailAdenike Webb, PhD, MT-BC is a board-certified music therapist with 20 years of experience. Her clinical work has been mainly in inpatient and outpatient behavioral health settings. She received her undergraduate training in music therapy at Radford University and completed her Masters and PhD in Music Therapy at Temple University. Her personal and clinical experiences as an Afro-Caribbean woman and immigrant in the United States sparked her research interests in developing cultural awareness and sensitivity in music therapy practice and education.  She is active in her local and professional communities in educating on and advocating for diversity, equity and inclusion.Dr. Webb has served as adjunct faculty at Temple University and Molloy College. She is currently Director of Academic Services at Cultural Connections by Design, a diversity education consulting company. A founding member of the Black Music Therapy Network, Inc., Dr. Webb cohosts their sponsored podcast Black Creative Healing. 

Send us Fan MailValerie Blanc, PhD, LMHC, BC-DMT, CMA, has been a part of the Lesley dance/movement therapy specialization faculty since 2011 and as a core faculty since 2018. She is currently the Coordinator of the Dance/Movement Therapy specialization working with a vibrant team of innovative educators. She teaches in both the on campus and hybrid low residency distance learning programs and was a part of the design team to create the low residency curriculum. Her teaching work includes the DMT Theories courses, Clinical Applications and Supervision, and the span of Body Movement Observation courses. She has been an integral part of curricular redesign in these courses, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion within the dance/movement therapy pedagogy both at Lesley and nationally.  Currently, Valerie is a dance/movement therapist in private practice specializing in work with young children and their families as well as and clinical supervision. Her clinical experience has centered around work with children with a focus on work with attachment patterns and sensory integration work- especially with the deaf population. She has extensive experience in inpatient psychiatric work with children and adolescents as well as community mental health support. She worked for 13 years with the Boston Children’s Foundation implementing the Rainbowdance and CBI programs in acute trauma response and resiliency building utilizing the expressive therapies. She acted as a lead trainer in the Rainbowdance and CBI programs, traveling to Taiwan, Mississippi, and New Jersey in response to acute natural disasters in these areas.  Valerie’s research interests center around the pedagogical practices of dance/movement therapy and building pedagogical theory in the field. Her recent research studies have explored the dance/movement therapy hybrid low residency student’s sense of embodied presence in their core courses as well as pedagogical practices of dance/movement therapy educators in ADTA approved programs. She was also part of the planning committee for the 2020 international Pathways to Practice: Conversations in Arts Therapies Education conference, as well as co-leading ongoing departmental workshops exploring pedagogical themes in the expressive therapies at Lesley. In collaboration with music therapy colleague she has also explored a critical perspective of the histories of dance/movement therapy and music therapy through a duo-ethnographic and arts based lens.  With national and local leadership in professional organizations, she has acted on the American Dance Therapy Association’s Committee on Approval, collaborating with educators across the United States to assure educational standards for DMT education. She is also an active member of the ADTA Education Committee where she currently asks on several task forces addressing educational standards revision, critical examination of movement observation lenses in DMT, and revision of the application process for board certification in the field.  Valerie grew up in Massachusetts where she now lives with her husband, two children, and pug. She is active in the arts community in Cambridge and dances with the Guardians of Isadora dance group who perform the repertoire of Isadora Duncan. 

Send us Fan MailDonna C. Owens (she/her), PhD — Supervisor of Academic Affairs and Visiting Assistant Professor, GSASS-Expressive Therapies Department. Donna has a BA in Women’s Studies from Trinity College and an MA in Expressive Arts Therapies/Mental Health Counseling and PhD in Expressive Therapies from Lesley University. Donna teaches in the master’s and PhD programs and is the course mentor for the program’s social and cultural diversity course “Examining Power, Privilege, and Oppression in Clinical Practice.” Donna’s scholarly interests include multicultural counseling in the helping professions, use of poetic transcription in evaluation, and the role of spirituality in healing. Her areas of specialization include program evaluation and nonprofit management. Donna has published on participatory action research with youth and arts-based spiritual practice. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Poetry Therapy.

Send us Fan MailCashel Campbell MS, BC-DMT, LCAT is a trauma informed Dance/Movement Psychotherapist. She is the creator/owner of Feel Heal Dance, an embodied, intuitive & psychodynamic private practice. Currently, her clinical perspectives are focused on the integration of pole dance and Dance/Movement Therapy as an intervention for body violence survivors. Board certified & licensed in New York State, Cashel provides individual & group sessions, clinical supervision & is a guest faculty member (Pratt Institute & Sarah Lawrence College). Cashel leads with compassion & maintains a clinical approach that incorporates empathy, joyful expression and connectivity utilizing dance and movement, through an indigenously rich lens that embodies social justice.

Send us Fan MailDavid E. Gussak, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM is Professor for the Florida State University’s Graduate Art Therapy Program and Project Coordinator for the FSU/FL Dept of Correction’s Art Therapy in Prisons program. He has presented and published extensively internationally and nationally on forensic art therapy and art therapy in forensic settings. These include, amongst others, Art on Trial: Art Therapy for Capital Murder Cases (2013), Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity (2019), and The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence (2022). In 2022, Dr. Gussak was granted the American Art Therapy Association’s Honorary Lifetime Member (HLM) award.

Send us Fan MailBrief intro to the Boundaries & Belonging Podcast: An Arts Based Approach.  What is the podcast about? How was it birthed? Who is being interviewed? And what are we focusing on? Magdalena V. Karlick, M.A., Phd-c, ATR-BC, LPCC (she/her) is an Art Therapist and educator. Magdalena is the owner of Our Imaginal World an organization that provides individual and group therapy, arts-based supervision, post graduate education, community health consultation for agencies, as well as commissioned art installations.  She has been an educator in the Art Therapy, Expressive Arts, and Counseling fields since 2012. Magdalena has received training in Somatic Experiencing, Sandplay, & Psychodrama, and weaves these understandings of group, symbol and body into her classrooms, work with clients, and supervisees. In her workshops, Magdalena tailors content and experience to meet the needs of the community or organization that has contracted her services. Focuses for her community health offerings include: stress reduction, relationship building, conversation strategies, cultural humility practices, equity and inclusion, and rebuilding group norms. She is a doctoral candidate in the Expressive Arts program at the European Graduate School, focusing on exploring the "Aesthetic Responsibility of the facilitator to the group" through various methods of Arts-Based Research.Magdalena offers arts-based supervision to Art Therapy interns, and dependently licensed Art Therapists and Counselors who are pursuing independent licensure in New Mexico. As a supervisor she focuses on power dynamics, personal bias, culturally sensitive ethical practice, self-care, and self-regulation. Magdalena is passionate about social justice, responsibility in leadership, and using the creative process to communicate stories and integrate understanding. She has been involved in multiple cross-cultural global art exchanges and plans to continue to collaborate globally.