For more information on the Art Therapy Credentialing Board and their approved qualifications for supervisors, please their website at www.atcb.org.
Name: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC #10-038, LMHC #12643
Location: Southwest Florida
Contact: reina@floridaarttherapyservices.com , www.floridaarttherapyservices.com
Bio: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, LMHC has worked in a variety of therapeutic settings and programs providing therapy services to wide range of individuals including: community mental health; pre-K through 12 therapeutic, alternative and public education; complex medical; trauma focused; crisis stabilization; memory impairment; substance abuse; relationship difficulties; family conflict, and; with children and adults affected by autism spectrum disorders. She owns and works full-time in her private practice in Fort Myers, Florida. She offers face-to-face, hybrid, and distance art therapy supervision services for professionals seeking the ATR or on-going professional development.
Name: Patricia D. Isis, Ph.D., LMHC, ATR-BC, ATCS, HLM
Location: South Florida
Contact: ISISartrx@aol.com
Bio: Patricia Isis holds a Ph.D in the expressive therapies with an emphasis on art therapy. Dr. Isis is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida and a registered board certified art therapist. Since 1980, Patricia has practiced art psychotherapy in South Florida. Currently, she provides clinical art therapy services full time in the public schools, holds a part-time private practice, and facilitates mindfulness-based stress reduction classes at South Miami Hospital while serving on the Arts and Healthcare Advisory Committee. Additionally, Dr. Isis is a popular presenter locally, nationally, and internationally. Patricia holds both the supervision credential for LMHC interns and the ATCS, the supervision credential through the Art Therapy Credentialing Board (ATCB). Dr. Isis is the co-founder and Honorary Life Member of the Florida Art Therapy Association.
Name: Sheila Lorenzo de la Peña, Ph.D., ATR-BC
Location: Panhandle / North Florida
Contact: Sheilalorenzodelapena@gmail.com, www.mandalaexchange.blogspot.com www.symbolicprojections.blogspot.com
Bio: Sheila Lorenzo de la Peña, Ph.D, ATR-BC, providing Dialectical Behavior Therapy services including mindfulness-based art groups at a forensic state facility. She has also worked with women in the prison system, children in foster care, and home based therapy. She has provided on-site orientation and supervision for art therapy interns since 2008. Through workshops she promotes the integration of creative therapies such as music and art as well as much needed self-care practices for professionals. She encourages creative self expression as a means to assess and regulate stress.
Name: Myra F. Levick, Ph.D., ATR-BC
Director, South Florida Art Psychotherapy Institute
Location: South Florida
Contact: 561-487-3588
Bio: Founder and first president of AATA; Director of the first graduate Art Therapy program at Hahnemann University, now Drexel University; Director of the MCAT program at Hahnemann educating art, dance and music therapists; Tenured professor, retired in 1986; Moved to Boca Raton, Florida; Taught graduate school in Florida for 4 years; Worked at Fair Oaks Hospital, Wellness Rehabilitation Facility, Levis Adult Care Center, where she saw private patients referred by psychiatrists and psychologists; Author of many articles and 5 books. For further information, please check her web site address: www.childrenatrisk.biz, www.bocapenwomen.org, Facebook (62) | Boca Raton Branch, National League of American Pen Women.
Name: Merrilee Jorn, M.S., ATR-BC
Location: Panhandle / North Florida
Contact: Merrilee_J@yahoo.com
Bio: Merrilee Jorn, M.S. ATR-BC, has served FATA as the membership chair in the last two years and in January stepped into the role of FATA President. She received her Master’s degree in art therapy from Florida State University. She works with adolescents and adults at the Behavioral Health Center at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. In addition, she is an active volunteer in the community facilitating art therapy groups with post treatment cancer survivors.
Name: Marcia Rosal, Ph.D., ATR-BC
Location: Panhandle/ North Florida
Contact: mrosal@fsu.edu or 850-644-2926
Bio: Marcia L. Rosal, PhD, ATR-BC, Director of the Art Therapy Program at the Florida State University, received a master’s degree in art therapy from the University of Louisville and a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Queensland. She joined the faculty at the Florida State in 1999 as a Professor in the Art Therapy Program after teaching for 14 years at the University of Louisville where she received the 1998 University Distinguished Teaching Award. She has been a practicing art therapist for over 30 years, received her ATR in 1979 and became board certified in 1995. Currently, she specializes in teaching art therapy research, group art therapy, the use of symbols in art therapy, and art therapy with children. She has published numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes and has lectured widely across the US as well as Australia, Britain, and Taiwan. Dr. Rosal is a past Executive Secretary of the Kentucky Art Therapy Association and a Past President of the American Art Therapy Association. She serves on the Editorial Board of The Arts in Psychotherapy and is Senior Editor of the Journal of Art for Life.
Name: Sara Windrem, ATR-BC
Location: South Florida (Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties)
Contact: sarawindrem@gmail.com
Bio: Sara Windrem is a graduate of the Florida State University art therapy graduate program. She is a member of FATA, AATA and serves on the ATCB Registration Standards Committee and the International Credentialing Committee. She has clinical art therapy experience in the public school system, juvenile justice system, forensic psychiatry at a state hospital, intervention, prevention, and treatment of substance abuse, trauma and victimization, family and couples art therapy, cross-cultural considerations, and Veterans issues (Acute psychiatric care, outpatient chronic mental illness, women Veterans’ issues, substance abuse, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder). She also has interests in mindfulness and art therapy, self-care for art therapists and has completed training towards registration as a Yoga instructor.
Name: Lisa Wasserman, Psy.D., ATR-BC
Location: South Florida (Broward County), Supervision in person and www.oovoo.com
Contact: lisafata@comcast.net
Bio: Dr. Wasserman has been practicing art therapy since 1996 when she was registered and then board certified in the state of Florida. She obtained her doctorate in psychology in 2003 and has spent most of her career in crisis stabilization. Dr. Wasserman was the first to work with Barry University Art Therapy program as a supervisor for the Art Therapy practicum student at Memorial Regional Hospital, Department of Behavioral Health in Hollywood Florida. The art therapy students had a wealth of experience with outpatient and inpatient patients/clients for group, individual, art therapy assessments, suicide assessments, team meetings and presentations on art therapy cases. Dr. Wasserman continues to work with all ages from young children to older adults in crisis hospitalization for acute and chronic mental and medical illness. A large proportion of the patients are dual and co-occurring disorders and issues relating to trauma, divorce, medication stabilization, memory impairments and more. Dr. Wasserman has had the pleasure of helping high school and college students with volunteering at the hospital to learn about psychiatric disorders and art therapy. As well, Dr. Wasserman has a wealth of knowledge in public speaking, team building, writing art therapy articles for local magazines and professional advancement. She is willing to supervise an art therapist looking to be registered, board certified and/or for purposes of consultation.
Name: Poppy Spencer, CPC, MS ATR
Location: Gulf Coast
Contact: poppy@coachpoppy.com
Bio: Poppy has facilitated Art Therapy sessions with individual clients and group workshops in multiple states throughout the country. Combining the fundamentals of Art Therapy principles, approaches, and professional facilitation with strong interpersonal skills, Poppy has guided thousands of elderly clients to recognize, access, and trust their own inherent, creative process. Poppy has been a practicing Registered Art Therapist for the past 7 years. During this time, she has seen significant growth and understanding of the field and its value, especially to those in the aging population, wherein lies her advanced training and specialty as a coach and Registered Art Therapist. For more information, please visit Poppy’s website atwww.arttherapywithpoppy.com.
Name: Mindi Rojas, MS, ATR-BC
Location: Panhandle/North Florida
Contact: mrmoore79@yahoo.com
Bio: Mindi Rojas, MS, ATR-BC, is a Board Certified Art Therapist currently working at Big Bend Hospice in Tallahassee, Florida. She received a master’s degree in art therapy from Florida State University. Mindi has experience providing clinical art therapy services in the areas of psychiatric mental and behavioral health, substance abuse, trauma, and grief and loss, and has facilitated individual, group, couples and family art therapy sessions. Mindi serves as Chair for the ATCB Registration Standards Committee. She is a Victim Services Practitioner as designated by the Office of the Attorney General. Mindi has presented on various topics in art therapy including art therapy and trauma, PTSD, music and art therapy, and family art therapy.
Name: Susan Joy Smellie, MS, LMHC, ATR
Location: Southwest Florida
Contact: hope@journeysthrougharttherapy.com or LGSJOY@AOL.com
Bio: Susan Joy Smellie is a Registered Art Therapist and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor whose private practice, Journeys through Art Therapy LLC, has been open for one year. She is a Qualified Supervisor for Florida Mental Health Interns and can offer dual supervision for those who are working toward both their ATR and their LMHC, as well as those working toward either credential individually. Susan Joy graduated from Barry University, Miami Shores, in 2003 with a dual Masters in Art Therapy and Clinical Psychology. During her almost 7 years at Lee Mental Health, she worked intensively with children and teens in an in-home program; in schools with small groups of children whose IEPs specified mental health services; and in the Outpatient Therapy Department with both adults and children. Her earlier training included hospice work with terminally ill children and adults, as well as adults and children moving from anticipatory grief through the bereavement process. She also worked with inpatient and outpatient groups in a psychiatric setting and in a clinical study with groups of women suffering from AIDS or at high-risk of contracting the HIV virus. For several years, she was the primary outpatient provider for individuals with trauma histories and for women suffering from Postpartum illnesses. She is certified in Perinatal Mood Disorders by Postpartum Support International; she is also a Certified Child Life Specialist. Susan Joy has presented to students, professionals, and the general public on Art Therapy, Art as Communication, and on using art in spirituality. Further information can be found on her website, www.journeysthrougharttherapy.com.
Name: Amanda Alders, PhD, ATR #11-016
Location: Throughout Florida; Distance supervision in qualifying cases
Contact: amandaalders@yahoo.com; amandaalders@gmail.com
Bio: Amanda Alders, PhD, has published, presented, and taught internationally on themes related to the creative arts therapies. Fluent in Spanish and English, she studied Art Therapy in Mexico City, New York, and at Florida State University. Amanda serves as President of the Florida Art Therapy Association and works as a registered art therapist in Miami-Dade public schools. For supervision, Amanda's goal is to provide affordable access through distance supervision. Florida is a large state; in cases where an art therapist will experience hardship to travel to the supervisor, distance supervision may be suitable. Amanda follows ATCB's recommendations for distance supervision: https://www.atcb.org/applications/ In cases warranting distance supervision, Amanda formalizes supervision on a tracking form so there is a record that is easy to access when it’s time to complete the summary form required by ATCB for the ATR application. If a communication method such as video conferencing is used, the online environment is private and in compliance with ATCB’s Code of Professional Practice and any laws relating to client confidentiality, distance practice and supervision. Amanda ensures that her costs are below the state's average to make supervision an obtainable goal for new art therapists.
Name: Amy Bucciarelli, MS ATR-BC
Location: North Central Florida/ Gainesville
Contact: abucciarelli@ufl.edu
Bio: Amy Bucciarelli, MS, ATR-BC is a Board Certified Art Therapist practicing with the Shands Arts in Medicine Program. She is also a lecturer and researcher with the University of Florida's Center for Arts in Medicine in the College of Fine Arts. Amy's clinical experience includes work with populations experiencing substance abuse issues, eating disorders, psychiatric diagnoses, behavioral issues, and palliative care. She has a particular focus in child and adolescent mental health care. She also has an interest in Mandalas for both her personal art exploration and her clinical work. Amy has published works on assessments in art therapy and has presented at national conferences on assessments and self-care through art therapy.
Name: Joseph Scarce, MA, ATR-BC
Location: St. Petersburg/Tampa, FL
Contact: jscarce@suncoastcenter.org
Bio: Joseph works with families as part of a community mental health agency. He provides art therapy groups with the homeless population. He also has experience with trauma clients and uses EMDR combined with art therapy interventions and conducts art therapy with families in their homes.
Name: Jessica Stilla, LMHC, ATR-BC
Location: Northwest Florida/Gulf Coast/Panhandle (Destin, FL)
Contact: jessicastilla@gmail.com
Bio: Jessica is a Board Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Destin, Florida. She is available to provide art therapy & counseling supervision. She received her undergraduate degree from FSU in 2003, majoring in Psychology with minors in Studio Art & International Affairs. She took her first art therapy course with Donna Betts at FSU and went on to get her MA in Art Therapy Counseling at Ursuline College in Cleveland, Ohio in May 2006. She worked in the greater Cleveland area for three years, and received art therapy supervision from Gretchen Miller. In 2008 she became a Professional Clinical Counselor and a Board Certified Art Therapist. She re-located back to Florida in 2009 and became licensed as a counselor in Florida in April 2011. She works as an art therapist/counselor at a residential substance abuse treatment center (part time) and in a community based intensive case management program (family intervention services for substance abuse). She is also beginning a private practice providing art therapy and mental health counseling. Her interests and training include art therapy focused in treatment of trauma, grief/loss, mood disorders, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, addiction and family issues
Name: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC #10-038, LMHC #12643
Location: Southwest Florida
Contact: reina@floridaarttherapyservices.com , www.floridaarttherapyservices.com
Bio: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, LMHC has worked in a variety of therapeutic settings and programs providing therapy services to wide range of individuals including: community mental health; pre-K through 12 therapeutic, alternative and public education; complex medical; trauma focused; crisis stabilization; memory impairment; substance abuse; relationship difficulties; family conflict, and; with children and adults affected by autism spectrum disorders. She owns and works full-time in her private practice in Fort Myers, Florida. She offers face-to-face, hybrid, and distance art therapy supervision services for professionals seeking the ATR or on-going professional development.
Name: Patricia D. Isis, Ph.D., LMHC, ATR-BC, ATCS, HLM
Location: South Florida
Contact: ISISartrx@aol.com
Bio: Patricia Isis holds a Ph.D in the expressive therapies with an emphasis on art therapy. Dr. Isis is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida and a registered board certified art therapist. Since 1980, Patricia has practiced art psychotherapy in South Florida. Currently, she provides clinical art therapy services full time in the public schools, holds a part-time private practice, and facilitates mindfulness-based stress reduction classes at South Miami Hospital while serving on the Arts and Healthcare Advisory Committee. Additionally, Dr. Isis is a popular presenter locally, nationally, and internationally. Patricia holds both the supervision credential for LMHC interns and the ATCS, the supervision credential through the Art Therapy Credentialing Board (ATCB). Dr. Isis is the co-founder and Honorary Life Member of the Florida Art Therapy Association.
Name: Sheila Lorenzo de la Peña, Ph.D., ATR-BC
Location: Panhandle / North Florida
Contact: Sheilalorenzodelapena@gmail.com, www.mandalaexchange.blogspot.com www.symbolicprojections.blogspot.com
Bio: Sheila Lorenzo de la Peña, Ph.D, ATR-BC, providing Dialectical Behavior Therapy services including mindfulness-based art groups at a forensic state facility. She has also worked with women in the prison system, children in foster care, and home based therapy. She has provided on-site orientation and supervision for art therapy interns since 2008. Through workshops she promotes the integration of creative therapies such as music and art as well as much needed self-care practices for professionals. She encourages creative self expression as a means to assess and regulate stress.
Name: Myra F. Levick, Ph.D., ATR-BC
Director, South Florida Art Psychotherapy Institute
Location: South Florida
Contact: 561-487-3588
Bio: Founder and first president of AATA; Director of the first graduate Art Therapy program at Hahnemann University, now Drexel University; Director of the MCAT program at Hahnemann educating art, dance and music therapists; Tenured professor, retired in 1986; Moved to Boca Raton, Florida; Taught graduate school in Florida for 4 years; Worked at Fair Oaks Hospital, Wellness Rehabilitation Facility, Levis Adult Care Center, where she saw private patients referred by psychiatrists and psychologists; Author of many articles and 5 books. For further information, please check her web site address: www.childrenatrisk.biz, www.bocapenwomen.org, Facebook (62) | Boca Raton Branch, National League of American Pen Women.
Name: Merrilee Jorn, M.S., ATR-BC
Location: Panhandle / North Florida
Contact: Merrilee_J@yahoo.com
Bio: Merrilee Jorn, M.S. ATR-BC, has served FATA as the membership chair in the last two years and in January stepped into the role of FATA President. She received her Master’s degree in art therapy from Florida State University. She works with adolescents and adults at the Behavioral Health Center at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. In addition, she is an active volunteer in the community facilitating art therapy groups with post treatment cancer survivors.
Name: Marcia Rosal, Ph.D., ATR-BC
Location: Panhandle/ North Florida
Contact: mrosal@fsu.edu or 850-644-2926
Bio: Marcia L. Rosal, PhD, ATR-BC, Director of the Art Therapy Program at the Florida State University, received a master’s degree in art therapy from the University of Louisville and a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Queensland. She joined the faculty at the Florida State in 1999 as a Professor in the Art Therapy Program after teaching for 14 years at the University of Louisville where she received the 1998 University Distinguished Teaching Award. She has been a practicing art therapist for over 30 years, received her ATR in 1979 and became board certified in 1995. Currently, she specializes in teaching art therapy research, group art therapy, the use of symbols in art therapy, and art therapy with children. She has published numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes and has lectured widely across the US as well as Australia, Britain, and Taiwan. Dr. Rosal is a past Executive Secretary of the Kentucky Art Therapy Association and a Past President of the American Art Therapy Association. She serves on the Editorial Board of The Arts in Psychotherapy and is Senior Editor of the Journal of Art for Life.
Name: Sara Windrem, ATR-BC
Location: South Florida (Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties)
Contact: sarawindrem@gmail.com
Bio: Sara Windrem is a graduate of the Florida State University art therapy graduate program. She is a member of FATA, AATA and serves on the ATCB Registration Standards Committee and the International Credentialing Committee. She has clinical art therapy experience in the public school system, juvenile justice system, forensic psychiatry at a state hospital, intervention, prevention, and treatment of substance abuse, trauma and victimization, family and couples art therapy, cross-cultural considerations, and Veterans issues (Acute psychiatric care, outpatient chronic mental illness, women Veterans’ issues, substance abuse, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder). She also has interests in mindfulness and art therapy, self-care for art therapists and has completed training towards registration as a Yoga instructor.
Name: Lisa Wasserman, Psy.D., ATR-BC
Location: South Florida (Broward County), Supervision in person and www.oovoo.com
Contact: lisafata@comcast.net
Bio: Dr. Wasserman has been practicing art therapy since 1996 when she was registered and then board certified in the state of Florida. She obtained her doctorate in psychology in 2003 and has spent most of her career in crisis stabilization. Dr. Wasserman was the first to work with Barry University Art Therapy program as a supervisor for the Art Therapy practicum student at Memorial Regional Hospital, Department of Behavioral Health in Hollywood Florida. The art therapy students had a wealth of experience with outpatient and inpatient patients/clients for group, individual, art therapy assessments, suicide assessments, team meetings and presentations on art therapy cases. Dr. Wasserman continues to work with all ages from young children to older adults in crisis hospitalization for acute and chronic mental and medical illness. A large proportion of the patients are dual and co-occurring disorders and issues relating to trauma, divorce, medication stabilization, memory impairments and more. Dr. Wasserman has had the pleasure of helping high school and college students with volunteering at the hospital to learn about psychiatric disorders and art therapy. As well, Dr. Wasserman has a wealth of knowledge in public speaking, team building, writing art therapy articles for local magazines and professional advancement. She is willing to supervise an art therapist looking to be registered, board certified and/or for purposes of consultation.
Name: Poppy Spencer, CPC, MS ATR
Location: Gulf Coast
Contact: poppy@coachpoppy.com
Bio: Poppy has facilitated Art Therapy sessions with individual clients and group workshops in multiple states throughout the country. Combining the fundamentals of Art Therapy principles, approaches, and professional facilitation with strong interpersonal skills, Poppy has guided thousands of elderly clients to recognize, access, and trust their own inherent, creative process. Poppy has been a practicing Registered Art Therapist for the past 7 years. During this time, she has seen significant growth and understanding of the field and its value, especially to those in the aging population, wherein lies her advanced training and specialty as a coach and Registered Art Therapist. For more information, please visit Poppy’s website atwww.arttherapywithpoppy.com.
Name: Mindi Rojas, MS, ATR-BC
Location: Panhandle/North Florida
Contact: mrmoore79@yahoo.com
Bio: Mindi Rojas, MS, ATR-BC, is a Board Certified Art Therapist currently working at Big Bend Hospice in Tallahassee, Florida. She received a master’s degree in art therapy from Florida State University. Mindi has experience providing clinical art therapy services in the areas of psychiatric mental and behavioral health, substance abuse, trauma, and grief and loss, and has facilitated individual, group, couples and family art therapy sessions. Mindi serves as Chair for the ATCB Registration Standards Committee. She is a Victim Services Practitioner as designated by the Office of the Attorney General. Mindi has presented on various topics in art therapy including art therapy and trauma, PTSD, music and art therapy, and family art therapy.
Name: Susan Joy Smellie, MS, LMHC, ATR
Location: Southwest Florida
Contact: hope@journeysthrougharttherapy.com or LGSJOY@AOL.com
Bio: Susan Joy Smellie is a Registered Art Therapist and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor whose private practice, Journeys through Art Therapy LLC, has been open for one year. She is a Qualified Supervisor for Florida Mental Health Interns and can offer dual supervision for those who are working toward both their ATR and their LMHC, as well as those working toward either credential individually. Susan Joy graduated from Barry University, Miami Shores, in 2003 with a dual Masters in Art Therapy and Clinical Psychology. During her almost 7 years at Lee Mental Health, she worked intensively with children and teens in an in-home program; in schools with small groups of children whose IEPs specified mental health services; and in the Outpatient Therapy Department with both adults and children. Her earlier training included hospice work with terminally ill children and adults, as well as adults and children moving from anticipatory grief through the bereavement process. She also worked with inpatient and outpatient groups in a psychiatric setting and in a clinical study with groups of women suffering from AIDS or at high-risk of contracting the HIV virus. For several years, she was the primary outpatient provider for individuals with trauma histories and for women suffering from Postpartum illnesses. She is certified in Perinatal Mood Disorders by Postpartum Support International; she is also a Certified Child Life Specialist. Susan Joy has presented to students, professionals, and the general public on Art Therapy, Art as Communication, and on using art in spirituality. Further information can be found on her website, www.journeysthrougharttherapy.com.
Name: Amanda Alders, PhD, ATR #11-016
Location: Throughout Florida; Distance supervision in qualifying cases
Contact: amandaalders@yahoo.com; amandaalders@gmail.com
Bio: Amanda Alders, PhD, has published, presented, and taught internationally on themes related to the creative arts therapies. Fluent in Spanish and English, she studied Art Therapy in Mexico City, New York, and at Florida State University. Amanda serves as President of the Florida Art Therapy Association and works as a registered art therapist in Miami-Dade public schools. For supervision, Amanda's goal is to provide affordable access through distance supervision. Florida is a large state; in cases where an art therapist will experience hardship to travel to the supervisor, distance supervision may be suitable. Amanda follows ATCB's recommendations for distance supervision: https://www.atcb.org/applications/ In cases warranting distance supervision, Amanda formalizes supervision on a tracking form so there is a record that is easy to access when it’s time to complete the summary form required by ATCB for the ATR application. If a communication method such as video conferencing is used, the online environment is private and in compliance with ATCB’s Code of Professional Practice and any laws relating to client confidentiality, distance practice and supervision. Amanda ensures that her costs are below the state's average to make supervision an obtainable goal for new art therapists.
Name: Amy Bucciarelli, MS ATR-BC
Location: North Central Florida/ Gainesville
Contact: abucciarelli@ufl.edu
Bio: Amy Bucciarelli, MS, ATR-BC is a Board Certified Art Therapist practicing with the Shands Arts in Medicine Program. She is also a lecturer and researcher with the University of Florida's Center for Arts in Medicine in the College of Fine Arts. Amy's clinical experience includes work with populations experiencing substance abuse issues, eating disorders, psychiatric diagnoses, behavioral issues, and palliative care. She has a particular focus in child and adolescent mental health care. She also has an interest in Mandalas for both her personal art exploration and her clinical work. Amy has published works on assessments in art therapy and has presented at national conferences on assessments and self-care through art therapy.
Name: Joseph Scarce, MA, ATR-BC
Location: St. Petersburg/Tampa, FL
Contact: jscarce@suncoastcenter.org
Bio: Joseph works with families as part of a community mental health agency. He provides art therapy groups with the homeless population. He also has experience with trauma clients and uses EMDR combined with art therapy interventions and conducts art therapy with families in their homes.
Name: Jessica Stilla, LMHC, ATR-BC
Location: Northwest Florida/Gulf Coast/Panhandle (Destin, FL)
Contact: jessicastilla@gmail.com
Bio: Jessica is a Board Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Destin, Florida. She is available to provide art therapy & counseling supervision. She received her undergraduate degree from FSU in 2003, majoring in Psychology with minors in Studio Art & International Affairs. She took her first art therapy course with Donna Betts at FSU and went on to get her MA in Art Therapy Counseling at Ursuline College in Cleveland, Ohio in May 2006. She worked in the greater Cleveland area for three years, and received art therapy supervision from Gretchen Miller. In 2008 she became a Professional Clinical Counselor and a Board Certified Art Therapist. She re-located back to Florida in 2009 and became licensed as a counselor in Florida in April 2011. She works as an art therapist/counselor at a residential substance abuse treatment center (part time) and in a community based intensive case management program (family intervention services for substance abuse). She is also beginning a private practice providing art therapy and mental health counseling. Her interests and training include art therapy focused in treatment of trauma, grief/loss, mood disorders, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, addiction and family issues
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