FAT Moon Podcast

Jenn Seniuk - Art Therapist, Counsellor, Podcast Host & Women’s Circle Facilitator   Jenn’s journey is a tapestry of global exploration, energetics, and the healing power of Art Therapy. With a boundless passion for the healing magic of creativity, she’s spent the last 8 years championing Art Therapy both near and far. As ‘The Traveling Art Therapist,’ she shares her artistic adventures on soc...

Noha is a master-level Art Therapist and a visual artist. She is also a creative thinker, experienced facilitator, and social justice advocate. Noha is passionate about using her creativity, empathy and curiosity to help people and meaningfully contribute to the world. Noha has diverse art therapy experiences working with populations from clinical and community settings ranging from adolescence to...

Lily Jiménez Dabdoub (she/her) identifies as a multi-ethnic Latina born and raised in Mexico City. As a woman who engages in continuous self-discovery through what she does her best: ecological art-making practice. Lily explores natural materials, upcycled canvas, recycled plastics, reuses sketches, and sustainable photographic prints. She continually challenges her own concept of identity to deco...

Negin (she/her) is a psychologist, visual artist, and art therapist. She studied a Master of Psychology in her homeland Iran and moved to Australia in 2013 to study art therapy.  She has worked with adults, young people, and families in a variety of public and private health settings including community health, inpatient programs, relationship support and sexual health services. She has a passion...

Prarthna is an Art Psychotherapist, passionate about nurturing one’s well-being and inner strengths through the healing potential of the creative expressive arts. During her MA Art Therapy training in Singapore, she supported special needs individuals by synergizing their unique strengths and abilities through concepts of psychodynamic art therapy and also had the privilege of engaging with servic...

I currently hold the role of Course Coordinator for the Master and Graduate Diploma of Art Therapy. Upon completion of my PhD, I took up a tenure-track position at Florida State University where amongst other activities I had the key responsibility for coordinating clinical placements. I continued my research in the area of art therapy and mental health recovery, as well as investigations on resea...

Mary Smail is a senior Drama Therapist and psychotherapist/trainer working in private practice at SoulWorksUK. www.marysmailsoulworks.co.uk She was Director of the Sesame Institute UK and International, London, UK, until 2015. This educational charity promoted the importance of the creative arts in all psychological transformation through a way of working called the Sesame Approach. Sesame has bee...

Louise Weston had an urge to change directions in her Autumn years, after her children were diagnosed Autistic. This period of time proved to be particularly traumatic for both herself and her children in navigating a somewhat deficit, ableist- based, clinical and educational system, not particularly supportive or even aware of neuro-affirming practice. After a long career in design, Louise decide...

I have always been interested in empowering others and supporting them in sparking change in their lives. I am an art psychotherapist and my practice has taken many exciting avenues. My work is about supporting you in rediscovering yourself, unlocking your true potential, and connecting with your creativity. Through working together my aim is to help you to recognise patterns and habits in your li...

Tilly (she/her) has been a registered and practicing art therapist since 2017. Tilly came to art therapy from a merge of interest in her studies in Psychology and work in design. For the last 5+ years, Tilly has worked as an art therapist at the Children’s Cancer Centre at The Royal Children’s Hospital to deliver individual/group sessions in a family-centred care model for patients and their famil...

Miki is an artist, Board-Certified Art Therapist, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker living in the United States (Virginia).  In her 20 years+ career as an art therapist and a social worker, she enjoyed working with older adults in various settings such as nursing homes, assisted living facilities, private homes, an outreach mental health program, and an outpatient mental health  program. Current...

Oratip Nimkannon is a registered art therapist (AThR) and counseling psychologist based in Bangkok, Thailand. She works at a private mental health clinic, using the relational/psychodynamic approach. Throughout her career, Oratip has worked with older adolescents, adults, and older adults from various cultural and professional backgrounds. Her particular interest focuses on helping people who have...

Noula is an Australian clinical psychotherapist, artist, and author, and the founding director of the BeCause Movement. Across all her expressions, she is deeply passionate about removing the affect of developmental neglect and not belonging on human lives.    She is a Brainspotting Trainer and Consultant, and also trained in Somatic Experiencing (SE) levels 1 and 2, Integral Somatic Psychology (I...

Hi, I’m Gabriela. I am a qualified registered art psychotherapist with an absolute passion and belief in the power of art therapy.  After completing my undergraduate degree (majoring in English and psychology) at Wits University, I went on to do my honours in psychology at Wits, and then my masters in art therapy at the University of Roehampton in London, England. My master’s degree was through a...

I am originally from Japan and grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand. After completing my Bachelor of Fine Arts, I studied further at the University of Canterbury and explored postgraduate studies such as early childhood education and neuroscience. I completed my Master in Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2011.  I am currently working at one of the NHO (National Hospital Org...

Daphna Arbell Kehila has over 20 years of experience as an Expressive Arts Therapist, cultivating inner strength and well-being through creative arts. Based on a client-based approach, Daphna creates, develops, and conducts programs and workshops for various populations in Singapore and globally. Living and working in the Asia Pacific region for more than three decades Daphna has a deep understand...

Hi, I'm Claire.  I am a registered art therapist for aged care in Melbourne. I’ve had the opportunity to work with youth in recovery, palliative care patients, and residential aged care. My enriching experience working with older people inspired me to establish a practice that engages and empowers the aged care community.      I completed my Masters in Art Therapy in La Trobe University. My pl...

Jackie Schuld is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist  (REAT) in private practice. She specializes in late-identified autism, working with newly diagnosed autistic adults and those who suspect they might be autistic. As an autistic and ADHD individual herself, she uses art therapy to help autistics process their new identities and learn to work with their autistic minds. When not with clients, s...

Hi, I'm Rae (they/them) and I'm an Arts Therapist, Psychotherapist, and Supervisor. I am non-Binary with a lived experience of Neurodiversity and Chronic Illness. I am very passionate about Disability Rights, the LGBTQIA+ Community, and Mental Health. I am also vegan and love animals. As a supervisor, I offer strong knowledge and experience in supporting LGBTQIA+ and Neurodivergent folks,...

I am passionate about the integration of the arts into community services; health, education, and social care, and have maintained my own art practice for over 20 years.    As a Registered Art Therapist (AThR) I specialise in art psychotherapy and have additional training in play-based therapies such as Theraplay®, Synergetic Play Therapy, and sand play therapy. I have a special interest in art th...

Meredith is a therapist, artist, and cultural worker who develops and sustains innovative art therapy initiatives for the public and private sector. I strive to provide culturally relevant art therapy.  Over the past several years, I have been actively examining my own bias, history, culture, and life experience as a therapist and teacher being raised in the U.S. with a Eurocentric lens. I am a wh...

Nadiah is a trained Art therapist from Brunei who completed her Masters degree at the University of Queensland in Australia. She is one of the pioneering Art Therapists in Brunei by exposing the value and impact of art and expression on the importance of mental health and recovery. She has been a practicing art therapist in the community but has mostly been focusing on individuals within a hospita...

*Advising listeners that Ed briefly discusses child abuse within the education system during this episode* Ed Kuczaj is the former Head of the Department of Arts in Health and Education at Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland which is part of Munster Technological University, retiring in 2017. He started as a course coordinator there in 2000 when it was a PG Dip in Art Th, movin...

Ms Meghna Girish is a qualified, trained and practicing Art Therapist and an Artrepreneur from Kerala, India. Presently she is a doctoral student and a research scholar at the University of Haifa, Israel in the field of Art therapy. She successfully completed her MA in Creative Arts Therapies, from the University of Haifa, Israel and her Bachelor's in Psychology from Union Christian College, I...

You can support the show via a monthly membership at ⁠patreon.com/GreeneMoonStudios Carla is an Artist and Creative Arts Therapist based in Boon Wurrung Country, Inverloch, Victoria. She brings decades of experience working with people and the arts for well-being in community, justice, health, education, and private practice contexts. Experiential ways of knowing underpin Carla’s therapeutic work,...