FAT Moon Podcast

Glenda has been using the Arts therapeutically for over 20 years and completed her training at RMIT in Melbourne. Glenda also has a Masters of Disability, a BA in Drama, Grad Cert in Neuroscience along with Certificates in counselling, business management, and teaching.   Glenda's background in multimodal Arts Psychotherapy, is broad, both with diverse client populations and in educational and sup...

This episode is a deep dive into the practice of Art Therapy in special schools. Rather than hearing just one persons experience, I thought it would be powerful to sit in conversation with three Art Therapists working in special schools in Narrm/Melbourne Australia.  My hope is that this episode shines light on the expertise and creativity of Art Therapists practicing in this setting, and gives li...

Dr. Annetta Mallon is a specialist grief, loss and trauma recovery psychotherapist with 35 years of experience. As a creative arts therapist Annetta engages with her textile art background a good deal in her work, especially for those in mourning and processing the grief 'afters' of a death or deaths as soft textures support us in processing all the Grief Beastie brings us.  In her private...

Sarah Tucker has extensive experience as a prison Art Therapy facilitator and aims to foster rehabilitation, healing, reconciliation, and recidivism prevention among offenders and in society.  Sarahs unique perspective stems from 25 years of involvement in the arts and tattooing, offering her profound insights into marginalised and underground communities.  Sarah has consulted and advised Correcti...

Nora Swan-Foster , MA, ATR-BC, LPC, NCPsyA is a Jungian Psychoanalyst and board certified and registered art psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado where she has been adjunct faculty at the graduate art therapy program at Naropa University. In 1986 she completed her masters from Lesley College in Expressive Arts Therapy and several years later she completed her Jungian analytic training (a PhD level...

** we experienced technical difficulties reocrding this eposide, a big thank you to Jennifer for persisting and sharing her insights with us ** Jennifer Naa Ayorkor Koney is an Art Therapist, educationist, and researcher with nearly eight years of experience working with children with special needs, survivors of trafficking and vulnerable populations in Ghana. She holds an MPhil in Art Education,...

Dr Jessica Collier (she/her)  has practiced as an NHS art psychotherapist with violent offenders in prisons, secure hospitals and a modified forensic therapeutic community. She currently leads a team developing arts psychotherapies services for women and men in prison. Jessica is co-convenor of the Forensic Arts Therapies Advisory Group, and formerly a council member of the British Association of...

Dr. Savneet Talwar (she/ her) is a Chicago based American Studies scholar, fiber artist, educator, art therapist and somatic coach. She is currently a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the art therapy and fiber and material studies departments. Her art and therapeutic practice is informed by her doctoral training in anti-oppressive frameworks, social justice and inter...

Jordan S. Potash , PhD, ATR-BC, REAT, LPAT (DC), LCPAT (MD) is a registered, board certified, and licensed art therapist, as well as, registered expressive arts therapist (USA). He is Associate Professor in the Art Therapy Graduate Program at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. As an art therapist for 25 years, Potash has worked with clients of all ages in many settings including s...

Megan is licensed by the counseling boards in the U.S. states of Arizona, Indiana, and Texas, and she also holds board certification status through the Art Therapy Credentials Board. She has served on professional boards and committees at local, regional, and national levels within the U.S. Her career includes clinical work in behavioral health, correctional, educational, medical, and social servi...

Cornelia Elbrecht BA. MA. (Art Ed), AThR, SEP , has more than 40 years of experience as an art therapist. She is also a Somatic Experiencing trauma therapist (SEP). She is the director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy. She has studied Expressive Arts Therapies at the School for Initiatic Art Therapy in Germany, also Jungian and Gestalt therapy, Bioenergetics and bodywork. She is found...

Juliet L. King, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, LMHC, is an Associate Professor of Art Therapy at The George Washington University and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine. With over two decades of experience as a clinician, educator, and administrator, Dr. King's research focuses on the integration of art therapy and neuroscience, making the science of therapeuti...

Catherine Hyland Moon (she/her/hers) is Professor Emerit, Department of Art Therapy and Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Author of Studio Art Therapy: Cultivating the Artist Identity in the Art Therapist and contributing editor of Materials and Media in Art Therapy: Critical Understandings of Diverse Artistic Vocabularies, she has worked in varied settings, including a psychiatr...

Dr Emma van Daal is an infant mental health consultant and researcher, child psychotherapist, and arts therapist working in private practice and community organisations for the past 18 years. Her passion is early intervention of early life trauma incorporating the arts to nurture attachment and promote healing, having presented internationally and nationally on this work. She is currently establis...

Lisa D. Hinz, Ph. D., ATR-BC is a licensed clinical psychologist and board certified art therapist. She is an associate professor and director of the Art Therapy Psychology Doctoral Program at Dominican University of California. Dr. Hinz is the author of many professional publications and three books on art therapy. The second edition of her book, Expressive Therapies Continuum: A Framework for Us...

David E. Gussak, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM  is Professor for the Florida State University’s Graduate Art Therapy Program and Founder/Program Consultant for the FSU/FL Dept of Correction’s Art Therapy in Prisons program. He served as the  chairperson for the FSU Department of Art Education in which the art therapy program is housed from 2008-2018. He has presented and published extensively internationally a...

Pat B. Allen, Ph. D., A.T.R.,  is an author, artist, art therapist, and teacher who connects to the Creative Source through art and writing. Her two books -  Art Is a Way of Knowing  (Shambhala 1995)  and  Art Is a Spiritual Path  (Shambhala 2005)  - explore the borders between art, psychology, spirituality, and social action, as well as a novel,  Cronation .   Her artwork has been exhibited in a...

Marian Liebmann has worked in art therapy with offenders, with women’s groups and community groups, and for 19 years in the Inner City Support and Recovery Team (adult mental health), where she developed work on anger issues. She teaches and lectures on art therapy at several universities in the UK and Ireland. She has run art therapy workshops in several European countries, as well as the US and...

Judith A. Rubin, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM is a licensed psychologist, child and adult psychoanalyst, and board-certified art therapist. A past President and Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, she has written six books and created thirteen films. For three years in the sixties she was the Art Lady on the PBS children’s program, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” Now retired from clin...

Collective Calm Well-being Session - May Patricia is the past Co-ordinator of the Master of Art Therapy in the Department of Public Health. For over a decade she worked in the public mental health sector in psychiatric rehabilitation with a specialization in residential services, group work, and group supervision. Patricia studied art therapy in Melbourne and Berlin and has worked with diverse pop...

Drew Bird, U.K. has been a Dramatherapist for over twenty years. He was senior lecturer on the MA in Dramatherapy at the University of Derby for fifteen years before becoming Associate Professor and Head of Creative Arts Therapies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He was editor of the Dramatherapy Journal from September 2020 to March 2023. He is the author of 15 publications and editorial...

Moon Mail - Monthly Newsletter Collective Calm: well-being sessions (May) Kate Dempsey is the CEO of ANZACATA. She has been in the position for just on 5 years. The work has grown from 2 days a week to 4 days a week in that time. She was chosen for the role because she has significant experience as a change management and leadership development consultant and has worked with not-for-profit associa...

Jade Chung is an Integrative Trauma Practitioner, Art Therapist, and Intuitive Healer.  Currently based in Vancouver, she works with women who are looking to really expand their lives to  more,  to extraordinary. Infusing art therapy with trauma-informed somatic therapies, energetics and spirituality, she believes that therapy and healing really is the most effective when understood through the mi...

Florencia Olavarría, currently works as a Nurse and Art Therapist in a psychosocial rehabilitation mental health center in Santiago, Chile. She is studying a specialization in Somatosensory Art Therapy, with a focus on recovery and healing from Trauma and PTSD, and is also beginning the certification to be a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, certified by the trauma specialist institute in the USA...

Calvin is a Scottish Art psychotherapist, Counsellor, and Creative. Calvin currently works with young people in high school across the west coast of Scotland and adults in his private practice. He is particularly interested in forensic mental health and working within the justice system. Calvin also works within Scotland’s largest prison, where he provides art psychotherapy to residents. calvindow...