Send us Fan Mail In 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 worke...

Send us Fan Mail Maríaluisa 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 thinki...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. 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 ...

Send us Fan Mail Michele 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 ...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. 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...

Send us Fan Mail Erin 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 th...

Send us Fan Mail Michael 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 bo...

Send us Fan Mail Christina 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 Ce...

Send us Fan Mail Sean 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...

Send us Fan Mail Emery 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 ...