Art Therapists in Private Practice
The following is a listing of Registered Art Therapists (ATR or ATR-BC) who are members of GATA/AATA and who maintain a private practice and/or other services. Please click directly on the name of the art therapist to contact them via e-mail for information about their practice. These listings are provided as a service and should in no way be considered as endorsement for the services offered or rendered. Although the Georgia Art Therapy Association (GATA) is here to help with finding an art therapist and learning about art therapy, it does not oversee or take responsibility for the work of its members. Members are to adhere to the Ethical Considerations and Standards of Conduct under the Code of Professional Practice provided by the Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB), and are responsible for holding their own liability insurance. |
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Virginia
DuPre, ATR, LPC, M.Div
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| Susanne
F. Fincher, M.A., LPC, ATR-BC Registered Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor Area: Atlanta, Midtown, Decatur Telephone: (404) 290-8773 Website: www.creatingmandalas.com Private Practice: Adult, Individual, Couples, Family, Group Other Services: Supervision, Workshops, Lectures Expertise/Experience: Susanne guides individuals, couples, and groups through the passages of life where difficulties - and opportunities for growth - can occur: |
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- transitions in relationships, home, and work
- questioning about meaning, purpose, and spirituality
- issues around health, illness, and physical well being
- concerns about gender, roles, and personal identity
Susanne takes a Jungian approach in her work. She incorporates active imagination, dream work, rituals, and self-expression with art to help you discover deep inner sources of healing, wisdom, and vitality. Susanne has a special interest in the sacred circles Jung called "mandalas," as seen in her books Creating Mandalas, and Coloring Mandalas. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Art Therapist with over 25 years experience. Susanne also offers supervision to art therapists and to counselors who seek to enhance their clinical skills.
| Jenny Welty-Green, Ed.S., ATR-BC Board Certified Registered Art Therapist South Metro Program (GNETS) Hospice of Northeast Georgia Medical Center Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) Callanwolde Fine Arts Center |
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Area: Atlanta, Northeast Georgia, Clayton County
Private Practice: Children, Adolescents, Adult, Individual, Group,
Family
Other Services: Supervision, Workshops, Internships, Consultations
Expertise/Experience: Jenny has two decades of experience working with children and adolescents with severe emotional and behavioral disorders, and dual diagnosis. She also has extensive experience in working with bereavement issues and provides art therapy grief counseling to individuals as well as to groups. Through Hospice of Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Jenny provides school based bereavement art therapy groups as well as summer bereavement camps. She also provides art therapy support groups to seriously ill patients and their families at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Jenny consults with other professionals offering insights and diagnostic information regarding artwork from their clients. She provides workshops and in-services to professionals on the use of expressive techniques with a variety of populations. Jenny’s thesis completed in 2007 for her Ed.S degree, explores her practice after a couple of decades of service, and is available by clicking here: http://georgiaarttherapy.org/thesis.pdf. She utilizes the approach that Art in Therapy as well as Art as Therapy both benefit the client in obtaining insights into their inner world, bringing material forward, making it easier to access change and growth. Additionally, she understands the necessity of awakening the inner artist, which resides in all of us. To view a short 3-minute PSA (public service announcement) that sums up her current philosophy, click here: http://georgiaarttherapy.org/enough.mp4.
| Annette
Reynolds, MPS, RN, ATR-BC Board Certified Art Therapist Certified Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator Health Rhythms Group Empowerment Drum Circle Facilitator Area: Birmingham, Alabama; Travels nationally and internationally providing services |
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Address: 204 Oak
Road, Birmingham, AL 35216-1410
Telephone: (205) 979-1744
Website: www.sacredlabyrinth.com/annette
Other link: www.labyrinthsociety.org
Private Practice: Individual, Group, Children, Adolescents, Adults
Other Services:
Supervision, Internships, Mentoring, Workshops, Presentations, Consultations
Expertise/Experience: Annette offers art therapy and labyrinth contract
services for individuals and groups of children, adolescents, adults, and
older adults with emotional and physical challenges. Services might also include
creative expression using music, movement, and percussion instruments.
She has experience using art therapy with at-risk and special ed. adolescents in alternative school settings; with children and adults who have life threatening illnesses in health care settings, support groups, and camps; with adults and older adults in-patient and out-patient mental health care settings.
Annette also offers art therapy supervision, internships, mentoring, workshops, and presentations. Labyrinth services include consultation, workshops, creating temporary and permanent labyrinths for homes, conferences, retreats, camps, faith communities, and therapeutic groups, and ceremonies.
Annette, a licensed health care professional for over 30 years, is a registered nurse and has worked as a CPE interfaith hospital chaplain. Her work is multidimensional, weaving together the physical, emotional, and spiritual. Through her enthusiasm and vitality, Annette shares her love of multicultural folk dance, singing, and percussion in her art therapy and labyrinth work.
Maxine
Hull, M.S., ATR-BC, DAPA
Board Certified Registered Art Therapist
Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association
Area: Atlanta & environs
Address: 2246 Northside Drive
Telephone: (404) 351-8111
Private Practice: Adults, Individuals
Other Services: Workshops, Classes, Seminars, Inservices
Expertise/Experience:
- Personal growth/identity
- Transitions/crisis
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Mind/body/spirit
- Ongoing recovery in alcoholism
Maxine works with reverence
for the transformational nature of art using a synthesis of Jungian psychology,
psychoanalytic psychotherapy, gestalt therapy and the mind/body/spirit connection.
She is an artist and board certified art therapist, a member of the
American Art Therapy Association and a diplomate of the American Psychotherapy
Association. Throughout her life she has been involved with the visual arts.
She earned both her BFA & Master's degree at Pratt Institute, NY, and
has psychoanalytic psychotherapy certification from the Long Island Institute,
NY. Her employment for many years as a Madison Avenue art director involved
her in the inner workings of advertising. Because of her lifelong fascination
with the visual image, and the transformative potential of art, she pursued
further training using art for healing. She has additional advanced training
in the psychology of health, immunity and disease, interactive guided imagery,
adult survivors of child abuse and trauma, and conscious aging. Her
25 years of clinical experience includes implementing and supervising
art therapy programs and leading workshops in mind/body/spirit connection
and retrieval of the real self. Currently she has a private practice
working with adults, teaches in the Atlanta College of Art Community Education
program, is an active board member and program designer for the ArtReach
Foundation, creates and presents art therapy workshops for the Crohns &
Colitis Foundation, and creates ceramic sculpture and special commission beaded
art and jewelry.
Cyndie Westrich, M.A., LPC, ATR-BC |
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Expertise/Experience: Cyndie Westrich, M.A., ATR-BC offers both art therapy as well as art classes for personal growth and wellness at her studio the EASEL, Inc. (Expressive Arts Studio for Empowerment in Living). The EASEL studio is located in the north metro area of Atlanta located in Northeast Cobb County.
With over thirteen years of clinical experience in residential treatment facilities, schools and psychiatric hospitals, she offers a range of art therapy services for women and children. Art classes for adults, which focus on facilitating art expression for wellness, can be taken in a relaxed community studio setting.
Workshops and presentations are available for facilities and organizations. To receive a free copy of Palette, the newsletter of the EASEL, and/or a brochure on art therapy, contact Cyndie.
Phyllis B. Kravitz, M.A., ATR-BC
Registered Art Therapist, Board Certified
Area: Buckhead , Sandy Springs
Telephone: (404)255-9090
Private Practice: Adult, Individual, Adolescents, Children
Other Services: Supervision, Women's Groups
Expertise/Experience: 12 years working with severe emotional behavior disordered children and adolescents in residential treatment, private practice with adults and children. Life transitions, relationships, drug treatment, eating disorders, conduct disorder, depression, anxiety and grief.
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