Boundaries & Belonging: An Arts-Based Approach

Magdalena Karlick: It's a Dance

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2203004/open_sms] 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 worked in a variety of settings including community health agencies, community art therapy studios, youth shelters, and private group practice. He has co-facilitated several therapeutic groups. Sam received his Masters in Art Therapy/Counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2021 and his Bachelors of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. Magdalena Karlick, Ph.D-c, ATR-BC, LPCC is the owner of Our Imaginal World [http://ourimaginalworld.com/] an organization that provides individual and group therapy, arts and somatic based supervision, post graduate education, community health consultation for agencies, as well as commissioned art installations.  She has been an educator in the Art Therapy, Expressive Arts, and Counseling fields since 2012, focusing on Cultural Humility, Somatic Awareness, Ethics, Group Dynamics, and Creative Arts Techniques. Currently she teaches for the Kint Institute [https://kintinstitute.org/] in NYC, a post-graduate creative arts therapy and trauma training in-person program. For a number of years she was the Art Director for Tomorrow’s Women [https://tomorrowswomen.org/], working with Palestinian and Israeli youth during an international summer camp intensive in New Mexico, and co-created a trauma therapy support network for staff and alumnae of this program during the most recent outbreak of violence.  The Boundaries & Belonging Podcast focuses on educators in the United States, who are teaching in colleges and universities, In graduate and Ph.D programs within the expressive arts therapies umbrella. Episode recorded on 9/20/24.

Marialuisa Diaz de Leon Zuloaga: Invoking Presence

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2203004/open_sms] 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 thinking integration of myth, arts, somatic movement and archetypal psychology. This framework, while embodied in my professional praxis and ethos, is articulated in an unpublished collection of academic essays, Somaphilia: Re-membering the Soul and the Aesthetics of Being, which is my masters’ thesis.  I am a registered Expressive Arts Therapist through the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, and I am a registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator from ISMETA -the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. I served on the ISMETA Board of Directors for nine consecutive years, the last three as Board President. Through my Board service I gained organizational embodied leadership and insights into the work that it takes to collectively support an emerging field and profession. I continue to serve as a volunteer in the Professional Standards and Equity, Justice, and Accessibility Committees. I enjoy collaborating with the ISMETA Board of Directors to grow the field of somatic movement and advance the profession of somatic movement. As an adjunct faculty at Southwestern College [https://www.swc.edu/] I teach graduate courses on the concentration on Consciousness in Action; as well as in the community programs through the New Earth Institute. I am an Associate Teacher at Tamalpa Institute [https://www.tamalpa.org/] where I previously served as Program Director and core faculty.  I supervise advanced students’ fieldwork projects and also offer public workshops where I highlight and celebrate the Tamalpa Life/Art Process in my life’s work. The Boundaries & Belonging Podcast focuses on educators in the United States, who are teaching in colleges and universities, In graduate and Ph.D programs within the expressive arts therapies umbrella. Interview recorded on 12/4/2023.

Dr. Elizabeth Markman: Expressive Arts at Heart

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2203004/open_sms] 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 move toward healing & personal growth. Elizabeth has a passion for incorporating the arts into psychotherapy that is rooted in her own experiences as an artist and utilizes an intermodal approach to creative arts therapies that can be defined as pointing to an integrated application of the arts. Elizabeth believes that part of the therapeutic process is to “rouse the creative life-force energy”. Thus, creativity and therapy overlap. What is creative is frequently therapeutic. What is therapeutic is frequently a creative process. Elizabeth’s background includes a demonstrated history of working in the residential and supportive housing non-profit industry. She is skilled in crisis intervention, clinical supervision, treatment planning, psychological assessment, conflict resolution, and interventions. Populations she has worked with include children struggling in social and/or classroom situations, sexually aggressive youth, youth questioning their gender and/or sexuality, adults living with life-changing diagnoses, formerly homeless and marginalized populations, and the severely persistently mentally ill. Interview recorded on 2/9/24.

Michele Rattigan: Normalizing a Pause

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2203004/open_sms] 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 growth that is trauma-informed, compassionate, socially mindful and grounded in cultural humility. The intersections of daily arts practices, creativity, well-being, mindfulness, self- and community compassion, interdisciplinary collaboration and equity in mental health care influence her work as a clinician, artist, writer researcher, volunteer, national presenter, keynote speaker and 25 years as an educator. Rattigan is currently the creative arts therapies clinical coordinator at Stephen and Sandra Sheller 11th Street Family Health Services [https://drexel.edu/cnhp/practices/11th-street/] where she supervises and co-facilitates art therapy with Drexel practicum and internship art therapy and counseling students.  Interview was recorded on 2/2/24

Dr. Gwen Sanders: Art is that Way of Knowing

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2203004/open_sms] 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 5 service-learning community projects to Central America working with multigenerational survivors of war trauma. Dr. Sanders has a private practice in Oakland California since 1996 providing adults and couples therapy. She has worked with emotionally disturbed youth and their families, been a Military Family Life Consultant to the Army on 4 - thirty to forty five day rotations in Europe, and has been a Clinical Supervisor for twenty five years. She is a HLM and Past President of the Northern California Art Therapy Association (NorCATA), a California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT) Certified Supervisor since 2003 and an Art Therapy Certified Supervisor. *Corrections for the interview:  -Dominican University (of California) is in San Rafael, NOT is in Santa Rosa.  -Dr. Sanders meant to mention that  oil painting is her medium, she loves working on thickly gessoed paper with grease pencil. This episode was recorded on 1/22/24.