Season 6, Episode 2

Today’s Guest: For 39 years, Dr. Ericha Scott has treated people struggling with substance and behavioral use disorders, mental illness, trauma and dissociation. She has also worked with victims of torture and sex trafficking. As a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and certified Creative and Expressive Arts Psychotherapist, Dr. Scott has dedicated her life to health, wellness, and art as medicine. This work has included academic and experiential teaching for clinicians, doctors, the public, and herself, relevant to her own personal health journey. She describes herself as “a healer who walks the fine line between mysticism and evidenced-based psychotherapy.” As an artist, author, therapist, and keynote speaker she advocates for disempowered populations by collaborative cultural exchange around the world. This year she was the keynote speaker for the first scientific expressive arts therapy conference in Cairo, Egypt, and she has been invited to return in 2024.

SHOW TOPICS

• Walking the fine line between mysticism and evidence-based therapy
• The importance of treating the effects of all memories, even those that may be not be remembered exactly
• Techniques for working through artist’s block
• Real-life examples of the power of using art to work through artist’s block and trauma​

Season 5, Episode 8

Today’s Guest: Kristen Rashid (she/her) is a Registered, Board-Certified art therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor, holding a Masters Degree in Creative Arts Therapy from Drexel University. Kristen is the founder of Artful Explorations Therapy, an art therapy and counseling center for kids, teens, families, and adults, located in Philadelphia, PA. Kristen has a background in graphic design and book arts, and apart from her art therapy work, her main creative outlet for the past few years has been writing picture books. She’s a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and is the blogmaster for the Eastern Pennsylvania chapter. She’s also the recipient of a 12x12 Picture Book Challenge Scholarship for 2023. Before picture books, Kristen focused her creative energies on songwriting, and before that on visual art. Creative expression is always an integral part of her life.

SHOW TOPICS

• What does art therapy with children look like?
• Finding comfort in new artistic modalities that have less pressure than the ones we use for work
• The release of simply experiencing art, even if that means sitting down to watch a movie
• The challenges that professional or experienced artists may face in art therapy

Season 5, Episode 2
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Today’s Guest: Julia Vering, LSCSW, LCSW, REAT, is a performance artist and musician, licensed clinical social worker, and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist based in Kansas City. She has integrated the arts into social work for 20 years, centering her practice in joy, humor, imagination, and the strengths perspective. She has received grants from The Charlotte Street Foundation and Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts for her community-based performance work involving collaborations with older adults and people with neurocognitive disorders. She also tours and releases albums as “Unicorns in the Snow,” a performance art project that integrates interactive projections, stop-motion animation, and original music. 
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Vering has worked in hospice and long-term care settings for the past 17 years. She opened her private practice, Expressive Arts Therapy KC, in 2022. She became the first Registered Expressive Arts Therapist in the state of Kansas in 2023 and serves as the Kansas State coordinator for the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. Vering integrates expressive arts, psychodrama and EMDR into her practice, and is currently creating a workbook and film on performance art interventions for people with neurocognitive disorders. 
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SHOW TOPICS

• Finding liberation and community through "weird" and "quirky" art forms
• The symbiotic relationship between art and therapy
• Facilitating healing and rehumanizing activities for patients and families in long-term care facilities through silliness and fun

Season 5, Episode 1
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Today’s Guest: Elizabeth Davis, MFA, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT, is a board-certified, state-licensed art therapist and an EMDR consultant and trainer through EMDRIA. She has more than 25 years of experience working in the field of trauma. Her approach integrates art therapy, EMDR therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and play therapy. She has conducted dozens of workshops, including for the EMDR International Association and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She is an author and editor of Creative Arts Therapies and EMDR (2022). She currently serves as a director at the Trauma Institute and Child Trauma Institute.
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SHOW TOPICS

• What are parts of a person and how do they manifest?
• The necessary parts of themselves that artists form in order to better create and commune with their art form
• How to foster harmony between parts through love, compassion, and respect
• Switching between the therapist and artist parts of ourselves

Season 3, Episode 4

Today’s Guest: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS, is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor practicing in Fort Myers, Florida. She is the owner of Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC, where she and her small team of therapists provide in-person and technology-facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision and is a frequent presenter/speaker at local and national professional conferences. 

Reina is the owner of Creative Clinician’s Corner, LLC , where she hosts and produces the podcast The Creative Psychotherapist and offers practice-building resources and consultation services for creative arts therapists with a desire to build and scale their own private practice. As the host of The Creative Psychotherapist, she interviews successful creative therapists about the tools and strategies they use to grow their dream practices, as well as how they have hustled to create additional streams of income using their knowledge and creativity by developing products and services that enhance their therapy practices.

​In her spare time, she loves to play on and in the ocean with her husband and their dog, explore vast natural landscapes, and get messy in the kitchen creating complex but healthy recipes. 

SHOW TOPICS

• The vital importance of maintaining a creative practice, even through school, training, or work as a therapist
• How to approach every activity with a creative mindset
• Fun examples of creative interventions in therapy
• The importance of allowing for other creative modalities in art therapy, even if they are not the ones we are oriented toward as therapists

Season 2, Episode 8

Today’s Guest: Gina Cardillo (she/her) is a licensed professional counselor, board-certified art therapist, and EMDR therapist in private practice in Philadelphia. She brings her training and experience from her first career in the art and design world into her clinical work, and is a practicing artist and musician outside of her role as a counselor. As an art therapist, Gina bases her work on the principle that art is itself a language and that all people are inherently creative. She guides her clients in using imagery and art-making to illuminate their innermost truths. She believes that by nurturing one’s creativity within any given medium, it allows an opportunity to uncover and develop a new side of oneself and to build a sense of mastery and empowerment.

SHOW TOPICS

• How art therapy helps a therapist step into a client’s inner world
• The interplay of different modes of art in art therapy
• Helping clients confront and work directly with their inner critic through art therapy and EMDR
• Discussing how EMDR 2.0 differs from traditional EMDR reprocessing
• How “exiled parts” often hold our wounds and trauma, and how IFS (Internal Family Systems) can address this 
• Therapy as a creative and improvisational art

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.” —Kurt Vonnegut

Season 1, Episode 4

​Today’s guest: Rachelle Archer, MA, is an expressive arts practitioner, organizational consultant, and the founder of Artful Leadership. She helps leaders impact lives sustainably by putting wellness first so they can lead with a full tank and create a culture that supports both staff and the community they serve. Rachelle has over 25 years’ experience at the intersection of arts, education, and healing. She serves marginalized youths and the adults who support them and helps organizations thrive by fostering the individual, interpersonal, and institutional well-being that empowers them to live out their mission and flourish. She believes that everyone can be a leader, humans thrive in community, and the well-being of that community starts with us doing our inner work first.

SHOW TOPICS

• How Rachelle helped found the Monarch School in San Diego
• Why “coregulation” is important, especially when working with children
• How our trauma can get in the way of the good work we want to do, and what to do about that
• How organizations are responsible for setting up a culture of health
• Making conscious decisions WITH people rather than doing things to or for them
• “How do we make life more wonderful for you?”