Meet the Collective

Owner, Licensed Professional Counselor, Board-Certified Art Therapist, Certified Substance Abuse Counselor - Rewired Canvas Psychotherapy, LLC.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate Counseling & Art Therapy Program - Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences University at Old Dominion University.

Doctoral Student - Expressive Therapies, Lesley University​.

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​Fields of interest and expertise:

• ​Mechanisms and mechanics of Art Therapy processes and materials

• Antiracist Research 

• Art Therapy and EMDR 

• ​Pottery - wheel-thrown and hand-built forms in claywork

• Clinical supervision​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Associate Professor of Art Therapy at The George Washington University and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine.

 

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Fields of interest and expertise:

• Art Therapy and Neuroscience: Theory, Practice, Education, Research

• Translational Science

• Neuroaesthetics

• Neuroeducation ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

After almost twenty years of teaching art therapy and leading an arts therapies program in the Netherlands, she has been an independent writer, researcher and educator since 2021 at Where Art meets Health.

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Fields of interest and expertise:

• Art Therapy Assessment

• Effects of art materials, techniques and instructions

• Stress-regulation, chronic stress and trauma

• Art therapy theory and rationale

• Art therapy education

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Professor of Art Therapy, Department of Art, Design and Drama, Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

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Fields of interest and expertise:​

• Develop experimental research to measure the therapeutic mechanisms and effects of art on pain

• Develop bio-psycho-social perspective to the emotional experiences in the context of art therapy relationship

• Client/Patient experiences of art therapy process and change

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Professor in Clinical psychology at the Open University of the Netherlands and professor in Creative arts therapies and Psychomotor therapies at KenVaK, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences.

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Fields of interest and expertise:

• Creative arts therapies (art therapy, music therapy, drama therapy, dance-movement therapy)

• Effects

• Mechanisms​​​​​​​

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Bani Malhotra, Ph.D., ATR-BC is a registered, board-certified art therapist and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 

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Fields of interest and expertise

• Develop, test, and implement interventions for psychosocial rehabilitation

• Investigate the neurophysiological correlates, mechanisms or psychotherapeutic processes of art therapy

• Examine therapeutic and neurophysiological effects of specific art media and approaches including receptive and expressive art engagement​​​

Psychologist & professor at the Couples Family Therapy at Alliant International University in Los Angeles. 

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Fields of interest and expertise:

• Art therapy and relational neuroscience theory and applications…

• Memory reconsolidation and the expressive arts

• Empirical research on the efficacy of arts therapies for pain depression and trauma

• The arts and heart rate variability practices

• Trauma treatment 

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Head of the Laboratory for the Psychosomatic Study of Art Therapy, The Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, The School of Creative Arts Therapies, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa.

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Fields of interest and expertise:​

• Art Therapy

• Psycho-somatic Medicine

• Psycho-oncology

• Women’s Health

• Psycho-neuro-immunology

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Professor, Director of Clinical Training at Mount Mary University in Milwaukee. And a clinician and Education Consultant at CLARA Healing Institute.

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​​Fields of interest and expertise:

• Art Therapy and qEEG

• Art Therapy and Trauma

• Child and Adolescent Therapy

• Expressive Arts Therapies

• Digital Media and Art Therapy

 

Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

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​​Fields of interest and expertise:

• Treatment of individuals with eating disorders

• Treatment of individuals with histories of trauma

• Teaching neurobiology and behavioral neuroscience

• Researching retinal structure and function

• Exploring the intersection of art therapy and neuroscience

Course Coordinator and Associate Professor of Art Therapy
School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

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​​Fields of interest and expertise:

• Neuroscience-informed art therapy practices

• Mindfulness-based art therapy and mental health

• Art therapy for trauma recovery and resilience-building

• Creative approaches to mental health intervention for diverse populations

• Strategic planning and evidence-based research in art therapy

Associate Professor of Art Therapy, Director of Art Therapy, Dominican University of California

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​​Fields of interest and expertise:

• Expressive Therapies Continuum 

• Large Scale Brain networks

• Media properties and media use in art therapy

• Therapist Self-Care and avoiding burnout

• Creativity

Senior lecturer/researcher art therapy Leiden University of Applied Sciences

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​​​​Fields of interest and expertise:

• Arts therapies

• Mechanisms

• Mental health

• Case studies

• Self regulation

Clinical and applied neuroscientist and clinical psychologist licensed as a clinical psychologist at Bridge Community Health Clinic in Illinois and Wisconsin. He is a researcher, educator, and clinician.

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​​Fields of interest and expertise:

• A person-based approach that involves multimodality quantitative and qualitative assessment resulting in data-driven treatments.

• Integration of clinical information based on the Bio-Psycho-Social- Spiritual (BPSS) model.

• Develop individualized therapeutic approaches utilizing BPSS to enhance a person's quality of life and provide the opportunity " to be the best version of self.”

• Develop novel behavioral and physiologically driven interventions to target specific brain networks

• To provide clinical and basic neurosciences training to practicing clinicians, empowering them to be exceptional clinicians and scholars.