"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein
Teaching others about the power of art therapy and embodied methods has become my life work.
As an adjunct instructor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, I lecture on group process, family therapy, and adolescent development as well as art therapy as professional practice in the field. As faculty of the School of Visual Arts in NYC, I teach group process and embodied art therapy methods.
I've mentored student interns since 2004, began teaching in 2010, and have guest lectured and presented experiential workshops nationally as well as internationally since 2006. I have been an advisor for the post-graduate Child and Adolescent Training Program at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and currently assist in training of both Somatic Experiencing and Integral Somatic Experiencing.
My role as a mentor has shifted in recent years towards a specialty coaching clinicians in embodied art therapy methods. My dissertation The Role of Embodiment in Art Therapy was published in 2025: https://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/expressive_dissertations/138/
My book The Embodied Art Therapist: Theory and Practice for a New Paradigm was published in 2026 by Routledge and I am available as a consultant in the area of embodiment, art making and clinical practice. Whether this is developing a clinical program that integrates the body or creating stress-reduction, mindfulness, and body awareness programming for staff, I am happy to advise you in methods that support your setting and meet your needs.
I am available to lecture or provide workshops on the following:
Any presentation can be combined with art or body-based experiential.
The following is a partial list of the groups I have consulted for:
As an adjunct instructor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, I lecture on group process, family therapy, and adolescent development as well as art therapy as professional practice in the field. As faculty of the School of Visual Arts in NYC, I teach group process and embodied art therapy methods.
I've mentored student interns since 2004, began teaching in 2010, and have guest lectured and presented experiential workshops nationally as well as internationally since 2006. I have been an advisor for the post-graduate Child and Adolescent Training Program at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and currently assist in training of both Somatic Experiencing and Integral Somatic Experiencing.
My role as a mentor has shifted in recent years towards a specialty coaching clinicians in embodied art therapy methods. My dissertation The Role of Embodiment in Art Therapy was published in 2025: https://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/expressive_dissertations/138/
My book The Embodied Art Therapist: Theory and Practice for a New Paradigm was published in 2026 by Routledge and I am available as a consultant in the area of embodiment, art making and clinical practice. Whether this is developing a clinical program that integrates the body or creating stress-reduction, mindfulness, and body awareness programming for staff, I am happy to advise you in methods that support your setting and meet your needs.
I am available to lecture or provide workshops on the following:
- Introduction to Art Therapy
- Group Process in Art Therapy
- Adolescent Art Therapy
- Art Therapy and Altruism
- Art Journaling and Bookmaking
- Weaving as Therapy
- Art Therapy as Embodied Practice
- Art Therapy and Energy Healing
- The Role of Touch in Art Therapy
- Core Centering - A somatic coaching method
Any presentation can be combined with art or body-based experiential.
The following is a partial list of the groups I have consulted for:
- The Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, Hawthorne, NY
- New York University, NY
- The American Art Therapy Association
- The Expressive Therapies Summit, NY, NY
- The Andrus Children's Home Psychology, Hastings, NY
- The Westchester Society for Group Psychotherapy, White Plains, NY
- The Fondation Orient-Occident, Rabat, Morocco
- The Westchester Reconstructionist Temple, Yonkers, NY
- Eastchester High School/Middle School, NY
- The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
- The Westchester Chapter of the New York Society for Social Workers, White Plains, NY
- The School of Visual Arts, NY, NY
- Hospice and Palliative Care of Westchester, White Plains, NY
- Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, NY, NY
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Parkinson's Disease Support Group, Boston, MA
- The Integrative Health and Creative Art Therapy Conference, Evanston, IL
- The US Association of Body Psychotherapy, San Francisco, CA
- The NY State Medical College, Valhalla, NY
- Graduate Art Therapy Program, Syracuse University
- The Maharasthra Institute of Technology, Pune, India
