Meet Our Dedicated Team of Volunteers
Our Team
Founder + President
Zachary D. Van Den Berg (they/he), MA, LPC, ATR-BC, a graduate of Adler University with an MA in Counseling: Art Therapy and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute (SAIC), has held various leadership roles within the art therapy community, publishing queer affirming art therapy scholarship in peer-reviewed journals and presenting at regional, national, and international creative arts therapy conferences and symposia. They practice queer world-making art therapy at Community Arts, LLC in Austin, TX, serving LGBTQIA+ individuals and groups.
Websites: Zachary Van Den Berg / Our Queer Kin Mural Profile: Orcid
Outreach DIRECTOR + SecreTary
Sara Blevins-Ranes (they/them), MA, ATR, LPC, is a trauma informed art therapist based out of San Antonio, TX. They have just transitioned to a group practice, where their focus is on affirming care for queer and neurodivergent individuals.
Profile: Psychology Today
Creative Director + Marketing CHAIR
Sharon Arbtin (she/her) is a Registered Art Therapist and founder of Evergreen Envisioning: A Holistic Approach to Mental Health. In her practice, she partners with individuals through accessible arts-based processes to help them unlock embodied connections to themselves and their feelings, expanding their self-knowledge, tools, resilience, and opportunities to authentically engage in their relationships. She's invested in disability advocacy and community-based, intergenerational work.
Website: Evergreen Envisioning
Logistics + it
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
Nicholas "Nick" Denson (he/him/his) MA, LCPC, ATR-BC, NCC, is a queer board certified, registered art therapist, licensed clinical professional counselor, and certified licensed clinical alcohol drug counselor intern (CLCADC-I). His full time job is Military and Family Life Counselor (MFLC) for the Air Force. Work as an MFLC includes brief, solution-focused, and non-medical counseling with service members, their spouses, family, and community. Nick is also a contractor. His contracts include a drop-in center for teens in substance use recovery, an outpatient center, an online counseling platform, and a drug and alcohol recovery center.
Profile: LinkedIn
Programming Chair
Gette Levy (they/them) is an established artist living in Wisconsin. Their work as an art therapist is inherently connected to their work as an artist. Themes of embodied joy, generational trauma, chosen family, culture shock, and disability can be found in Gette’s work no matter where it arises or in what capacity.
Email: gettelevy@gmail.com
International Outreach LIAISON
Marie Deschamps (she/her) is an art psychotherapist, researcher, and artist. A doctoral candidate at Lesley University, she studies art-based symptom self-disclosure using technology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She teaches at Instituto Mexicano de Psicoterapia de Arte (Mexico) and is a visiting scholar at the Sex tech lab at the New School, NY.
Email: marie.deschamps@yahoo.com
Special ThankS to our collaborators who
helped make Expressing Pride 2024 possible!
helped make Expressing Pride 2024 possible!
Dr. Missy Satterberg (she/her) PhD, ATR-BC, LMFT, LCAT, is a queer, cisgender woman and artist with over 20 years of experience in the mental health field, providing mental health treatment in both California and Oregon (since 2020). She specializes in working with teens and families and in providing supervision services to recent graduates (Art Therapy-Provisional and Associate supervision in both states). She serves as an assistant clinical professor in a graduate art therapy program while maintaining her private practice.
Website: MSP Art Therapy
Rachel Mims
(she/her) MS, ATR-BC, LPC-AT, believes in holistic healing and the power of art to make positive changes in personal lives and the world. She works in Private Practice with Women, Queer Folx, and Veterans who have experienced trauma.
Website: Deep in the Heart of Texas Therapy
Instagram: DeepInTheArt
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TikTok: Mimsrachel1
Profile: Facebook
Danielle Maveal (she/her) is a Masters of Science Art Therapy student at Lewis & Clark in Portland, Oregon. She is interested in the intersections of body size, race, gender, and sexuality and is working on art-based research that explores the lived experiences of being fat in therapy. Danielle is also deeply interested in community, queer futurity, and clouds.
Instagram: bikini_kiln
Lauren Wolfe (she/her), BA, is a proud Rutgers University - Newark 2022 graduate, with a degree in Fine Arts and minors in Psychology & Art History. She is currently 2 years deep in her graduate school journey, hoping to become an Expressive Arts Therapist or an Art-Drama Therapist. In her free time, she loves going to the gym, hanging out with friends and expressing herself creatively, whether that be theatre, choir, film or lending her voice to a project in need.
Email: lewolfe831@gmail.com
Instagram: sm00thtmarts