I am a Queer artist-art therapist who practices having spanned multiple age groups and communities. My work is grounded in relational-cultural theory with a social justice focus. I foster a collaborative, person-centered, and art-based therapeutic relationship through which participants can explore their concerns, intersectional identities, and cultural narratives.

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Marcela Andrade del Corro graduated as a Psychologist from ITESO in Mexico in 2002, and as an Art Therapist from the University of Barcelona in 2007. Marcela has specialised in working with children and families in a variety of settings, including residential care homes, street children, parent and infant projects, private practice, and school settings in Scotland. She currently works as a Lecturer for the Art Psychotherapy program in Queen Margaret University in Scotland, and in Metafora, Spain. Marcela has lectured widely on Art Therapy programs across Europe. She is currently conducting child and infant observation studies.

Dan Anthon is an artist, author, and mostly retired art therapist. One of the greatest joys of his life was working alongside artists with HIV/AIDS.

Chris Bayard is a Chicago-based, highly regarded, cinematographer and documentarian.

Rebekah Byrd is an Associate Professor of Counseling and Director of the Institute for Play Therapy and Expressive Arts Education and Research at Sacred Heart University. Dr. Byrd has been a counselor educator for over 10 years and has almost 20 years of experience working in the mental health field in varying capacities and settings. She currently provides individual counseling in a k-12 virtual academy and in private practice work.

Her research specialization falls primarily in issues pertaining to children/adolescent counseling, play therapy, LGBTGEQQIA+ advocacy, school counseling, social justice/multicultural concerns, self-injury, and women‚ and wellness. She recently co-authored a textbook on counseling children and adolescents. She serves on many national and statewide committees and was recently awarded the Counselor Educator Advocacy Award from the Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling (ACAC).

Mimma Della Cagnoletta, doctor in Philosophy, certified psychologist, art therapist and psychoanalyst and painter, is co-founder and president of Art Therapy Italiana (1982). Former professor at the University of Milan, she has been teaching and supervising for more than three decades.

She is now director of advanced studies in art therapy for Art Therapy Italiana. She runs art therapy groups for users and professionals in many health services and private institutions. She supervises individuals and groups in the mental health fields, using creative arts techniques. She works with dance movement therapists in order to integrate art and movement into teaching and practice.

She works in private practice in Milan, in Como and online. Author of an art therapy handbook and co-author of a book on group art therapy and many articles in English and Italian, she is a member of the editorial board of CAET, member of the Research Committee and Application Review Committee of the European Federation of Art Therapy and honorary member of the Italian Professional Association of Art Therapists.

Andy Campbell is an art and design historian, critic, and curator working at the intersection of community, aesthetics, and material process. His books include Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art, and Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ. He is an associate professor of Critical Studies in USC's Roski School of Art and Design.

Olivia Cohen is a board certified music therapist and creative arts therapist. She graduated from Molloy College with a master’s in music therapy and completed post graduate training in the arts and trauma treatment from the Kint Institute. Olivia has had the privilege in her career in healthcare to work with individuals across the lifespan within varying levels of cognitive and physical abilities. Olivia has presented at regional music therapy conferences and the national LeadingAge Expo. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Huffington Post, Chasing News, Aging Today and as co-author on a chapter in Creative Arts Therapies and the LGBTQ Community. Currently, Olivia is completing her 600 hour comprehensive pilates teacher certification with Pure Body Teacher Training and hopes to use the intersections of movement and creativity to continue to create safe spaces for people to connect to their bodies, emotions, and mind.

Rivkah (Rebecca) Hetherington is an HCPC (UK) registered art psychotherapist who trained at Art Therapy Italiana (Italy). Her particular interest in treating trauma has led her to specialize in the Clay Field and Guided Drawing at the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy (Australia) and to train in Somatic Experiencing (Italy). She is an artist with a BA and MA in Fine Art in the UK where she grew up, and she has recently graduated in Italy in Psychology.

She lives in Bologna (Italy) where she has her private practice, working with children and adults, individually and in groups, expanding on-line since the outbreak of COVID-19. Her interest in social justice has led her to create projects (funded and voluntary) with Bologna women’s prison, child refugee centres and women’s shelters.

Her international and LGBTQI+ identity has led her to value an intersectional approach and to specialize in working with out-of-the-box identities be that with Third Culture Kids or minority groups. In collaboration with Bologna’s LGBTQI+ centre, she set up the first art therapy group in Italy dedicated specifically to LGBTQI+ service users and has published her research in this field (The Arts in Psychotherapy and IJAT). She firmly believes in Amber Gray’s ‘reciprocal alliance’ approach and is passionate about making art therapy available to everyone.

M is a trans/non-binary art therapist, fat activist and artist whose work focuses on body justice, intersectional social justice and eating disorder treatment equity access.

They are the Director for Walden Behavioral Care’s Rainbow Road, the country’s first virtual Eating Disorder 2slgbtqia+ IOP & PHP, which is proud to announce having over 90% Queer Staffing (as of February 2022). They also co-own and operate Rainbow Recovery where they support people through the gender affirmation process, complex trauma recovery, eating disorder recovery and body image issues.

M is committed to the mission that all bodies deserve recovery and that marginalized bodies need to be amplified in the eating disorder landscape to eradicate the stereotypes surrounding eating disorders and gender. To that end M had the honor to participate in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Artful Practices for Well-being, presented at national and international conferences on the use of HAES, Intuitive Eating and Intersectional Social Justice in mental health care and teaches multicultural and diversity practice in Master’s Level Art Therapy programs.

When M isn’t working they enjoy raising many animals including Pinball Wizard, their blind dog, watching all things Horror on repeat, obsessing over all things Elton John, and enjoying time with their partner.

Bianca is an artist, advocate, educator, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and Board Certified Registered Art Therapist. She is a private practitioner with a transnational practice. Bianca currently holds lecturing positions at Antioch University Seattle, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and University of Hong Kong. She was the president of Hong Kong Association of Art Therapists from 2017 to 2021.

**Bianca hosted an OPEN STUDIO FOR RADICAL COLLECTIVE CARE, for which there is no recording**

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.

She 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.

Sonya Lorelle received her PhD in Counselor Education from Old Dominion University and is Core Faculty at Northwestern University for the online counseling program. Her clinical experience includes working as a counselor at a university counseling center and as a children’s counselor at an agency that provided services to homeless families, serving children ages 3-18 and their parents. She is also a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. Her interests include play therapy, neurobiology applications in the counseling, and in international counseling and has trained counselors and provided counseling services in Bhutan, India, and Thailand.

Maro is a lecturer in art psychotherapy at Queen Margaret University. She is also a practicing art psychotherapist, working primarily with primary school-aged children. Maro is currently interest in feminist-informed approaches to psychotherapy, embodied cognition and mentalization-based art psychotherapy interventions for children and young people.

Community Art Therapist, Founder of CommunityArts, and Epic Artist Wanda Montemayor has been creating public art since 1998. With a bachelor's degree in art education, masters' degree in professional counseling and post-secondary degree in art therapy, she enlists the skills she's learned to engage and bring the people of her community together to collectively create massive public works of art through art therapy. In addition to her traditional counseling and talk therapy methods, she integrates art therapy for her middle-school students, as well as in community art projects with children throughout her community. Wanda is also MARI certified as well as a Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) practitioner.

Liisa Murray is a board-certified music therapist and licensed creative arts therapist. She work from a foundation of person-centered and psychodynamic psychotherapy and emphasize trauma informed, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and culturally responsive care.

Her work focuses on working collaboratively with clients to develop caring and compassionate relationships in a space of safety and healing.

She has received advanced training in trauma and the arts from Kint Institute, and presented at national and regional conferences. She was the co-author of a chapter in Creative Arts Therapies and the LGBTQ Community.

Paolo identifies as queer and is interested in queering art therapy by bringing “desire” at its core. As an art therapist Paolo is influenced by collective experiences in self-organisation and by the legacy of Felix Guattari onto clinical, social and organisational practices. Paolo has worked as an art therapist in different settings, from schools to therapeutic communities to community centres, he also works as a Lecturer in Art Psychotherapy at Queen Margaret University, and he is currently training as a systemic practitioner.

Jude Regula is a drama therapist working in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Services at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County. They are currently involved in an initiative to develop an LGBTQ+ inpatient psychiatric unit that provides affirming care to queer and trans young people. They facilitate outpatient groups for LGBTQ+ youth to explore their identities and find community. They have published on the efficacy of drama therapy in virtual spaces and the intersection of drama therapy and workforce development.

Joseph Scarce is currently in private practice, owner of Joe’s Art Time, LLC, in Tampa Fl. He provides art therapy to medical hospitals, and substance abuse facilities. Joseph has worked in disaster response art therapy, including Hurricanes, Maria, Irma, Michael, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and the Pulse Night club shooting through the Orlando Youth Alliance. Joseph is an Assistant Professor at The University of Tampa and coordinates the BA in Art Therapy program. He partners with the Tampa Museum of Art to provide underserved populations art therapy services through the Art Space Program. Joseph worked in community mental health as an art therapist for 10 years with Suncoast Mental health in St Petersburg. He worked with children in school based programs and families in home care. Joseph is the author / editor of Art Therapy in Response to Natural Disasters, Mass Violence & Crisis.

Roxy Schoenfeld is a drama therapist in Brooklyn who offers drama therapy and supervision in private practice. They previously served as the Senior Recovery Counselor at Goodwill Seamark PROS. Roxy received their MA in Drama Therapy at NYU, and completed postgraduate training at the New York Institute for Developmental Transformations (DvT). They offer recurring guest lectures on DvT at NYU, as well as presentations and workshops at the NADTA Conference, including "Queer Disruptions of White Supremacy."

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Dana George Trottier is a clinical supervisor for Behavioral Health Services at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County. They earned a Certificate of Advanced Training in LGBTQ Healthcare from the Fenway Institute. They are currently a PhD Student in Counselor Education and Supervision at Antioch University Seattle. Dana is co-editor of the book Creative Arts Therapies and the LGBTQ Community: Theory & Practice, and has published on the topics of traumatic loss, embodiment in clinical training and supervision, and empathy in psychiatric rehabilitation. He is an adjunct faculty member in the Program in Drama Therapy at New York University and maintains a private practice focusing on clinical and embodied supervision.

Zachary D. Van Den Berg has an MA in counseling/art therapy from Adler University and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute. He is past-president of the Adler art therapy student association, founder of the international online forums Art Therapy Students Associated and Coalition for Queer Creative Arts Therapies, current chair of the multicultural committee of the AATA, and creative director of the Expressive Media Film Library. He works at CommunityArts, LLC, a group art therapy and counseling practice in Austin, TX.

**The WELCOME, which Zak presented, was not recorded.**

Stephanie Wray has served people for the last 26 years through the arts. In 2016 she began responding to natural and man-made disasters through art therapy. Stephanie has responded to 49 disasters through the therapeutic art program Stars of HOPE. She has been awarded twice for her outstanding leadership and service to the community and is an international speaker, educator and published author. Stephanie is the CEO of a private practice Art Flow Therapy and founder of The Art Flow Lounge an expressive arts online membership community.