Nov 24, 2019 | Credential Holder Profiles
As recent art therapy graduates hoping to transform our mutual passion for community work into our practice, we realized that little information was available about how to work independently of an organization. Motivated by long conversations on our hopes about...
Apr 29, 2019 | Credential Updates
It’s that time of year when credential holders can expect to receive notifications from the ATCB regarding both annual renewal and five-year recertification. While it’s easy to confuse the meaning of the two terms, they are two distinct processes that require...
Feb 12, 2019 | Latest News
It is difficult to think about becoming incapacitated or dying (DeSpelder & Strickland, 2014); it’s not something most people think about, and that includes art therapists working with clients in private or group practice. What would happen to your clients if you...
Oct 24, 2018 | Credential Holder Profiles, Latest News
I feel fortunate to have witnessed the evolution of art therapy over the many years of my career, including over 40 years at Menninger’s, and after that (while I am supposedly in my retirement) at the psychiatric unit of a major medical center. I have observed that...
Oct 16, 2018 | Credential Holder Profiles
Growing up in Ohio in the 1980s as the daughter of Asian Indian immigrants was challenging. Throughout my middle and high school years, I struggled to fit in at school while being expected to be a good Indian daughter at home. I loved my Indian heritage’s long history...