Sarah Tucker has extensive experience as a prison Art Therapy facilitator and aims to foster rehabilitation, healing, reconciliation, and recidivism prevention among offenders and in society.  Sarahs unique perspective stems from 25 years of involvement in the arts and tattooing, offering her profound insights into marginalised and underground communities. 

Sarah has consulted and advised Correctional Services, employing various creative therapeutic interventions, particularly with prisoners. Her expertise also extends to facilitating children's group therapy art workshops, individual therapy sessions, and trauma-informed creative therapy practices. 

Sarah also holds multiple undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in criminology, neuroscience and arts psychotherapy.

[email protected]

https://www.unsw.edu.au/hdr/sarah-tucker

Nora Swan-Foster, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, NCPsyA is a Jungian Psychoanalyst and board certified and registered art psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado where she has been adjunct faculty at the graduate art therapy program at Naropa University.

In 1986 she completed her masters from Lesley College in Expressive Arts Therapy and several years later she completed her Jungian analytic training (a PhD level training) in 2010. She has worked with people of all ages in various settings. Nora is a senior training analyst with the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA) and the Memphis-Atlanta Seminar MAJS.

She has presented and published internationally on trauma and Jungian analysis, pregnancy, group art therapy and various issues related to Jungian psychology and art therapy, and analytic training. She has two book titles: Jungian Art Therapy and Art Therapy and Childbearing Issues and chapters focused on Jungian art therapy. She also served as a North American editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology.

[email protected]

https://jungchicago.org/blog/product/image-or-art-from-jungs-red-book-to-jungian-art-therapy/

https://jungchicago.org/blog/jung-in-the-world-image-or-art-with-nora-swan-foster/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6N4FTIZIG0

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Jennifer Naa Ayorkor Koney is an Art Therapist, educationist, and researcher with nearly eight years of experience working with children with special needs, survivors of trafficking and vulnerable populations in Ghana. She holds an MPhil in Art Education, with a research focused on children rescued from trafficking in the fishing industry on Volta Lake in Ghana and an MSc in Creative Art Therapy, which focused on engaging young women affected by sex trafficking and street life in Kumasi.

Her research and practice emphasize trauma-sensitive care, educational, special needs care and therapeutic interventions, and strategies to support the emotional and psychological recovery of survivors of trafficking, and children with special needs particularly through improving attention and executive functioning.

Jennifer is married to an amazing husband, who is a medical doctor in Ghana. They are blessed three beautiful children.

Please email Jennifer with any further questions or interest to collaborate: [email protected]

Dr Jessica Collier (she/her) has practiced as an NHS art psychotherapist with violent offenders in prisons, secure hospitals and a modified forensic therapeutic community. She currently leads a team developing arts psychotherapies services for women and men in prison.

Jessica is co-convenor of the Forensic Arts Therapies Advisory Group, and formerly a council member of the British Association of Art Therapists and the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapists. Jessica has presented her work at conferences nationally and internationally. She lectures on postgraduate arts psychotherapy and forensic psychotherapy programmes and and is a visiting fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was the inaugural co-editor in chief of the International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy and has published widely including co-editing the book Intersectionality and Art Psychotherapies. Jessica's PhD considered the interdisciplinary dialogue between feminist criminology and art psychotherapy as a means of understanding gendered identities in prison and she remains passionate about working with criminalised women.

Jessica also has a private practice providing clinical supervision and reflective practice to psychological professionals and teams working with complex forensic patients across prisons, secure hospitals and community settings. In addition, Jessica has an interest in Social Dreaming and has trained with the Social Dreaming International Network.

https://uk.jkp.com/products/intersectionality-in-the-arts-psychotherapies

Dr. Savneet Talwar (she/ her) is a Chicago based American Studies scholar, fiber artist, educator, art therapist and somatic coach. She is currently a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the art therapy and fiber and material studies departments. Her art and therapeutic practice is informed by her doctoral training in anti-oppressive frameworks, social justice and intersectional feminism. She strives to embrace abolitionist concepts to enhance her art practice and pedagogy.

 As an interdisciplinary fiber and feminist artist, her work exists at the intersection of archives, memory, language, feminist politics and questions of resistance. She is interested in the contradictions of feminist and archival matters – what and who is worthy of being a subject of discourse? What colonial narratives and images continue to define matters of the global south?

 Talwar has initiated various community based projects such as the Wandering Uterus Project; the CEW (Creatively Empowered Women) Design Studio and most recently the Mending Lab, a pop up art studio to facilitate conversation on the role of repair in communities.  She is also a member of the P O Box Collective, a social practice space in Rogers Park, Chicago.

She is the author of Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersections and has published numerous articles in national and international journals on ethics of care, intersectional feminism, feminist pedagogy, the politics of crafting, culture and identity, ethics, law and cultural competence and trauma informed art therapy.

https://www.savneettalwar.com/

Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersection

Publications List - Copies of articles can be access on Research Gate

Jordan S. Potash, PhD, ATR-BC, REAT, LPAT (DC), LCPAT (MD) is a registered, board certified, and licensed art therapist, as well as, registered expressive arts therapist (USA). He is Associate Professor in the Art Therapy Graduate Program at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. As an art therapist for 25 years,

Potash has worked with clients of all ages in many settings including schools, clinics, and community art studios. He works with organizations in Washington DC focused on youth experiencing homelessness and grief. His primarily interests are in the applications of art and art therapy in the service of community development, social change, and peacebuilding.

Potash has authored several articles and book chapters as well as presented at conferences, universities, and communities in the U.S., U.K., Hong Kong, and Israel. Potash supports the art therapy profession as Editor in Chief of Art Therapy (2019-2024) and lead advocate for the passage and implementation of the DC Professional Art Therapist Licensure Amendment Act.

⁠www.jordanpotash.com⁠

Megan is licensed by the counseling boards in the U.S. states of Arizona, Indiana, and Texas, and she also holds board certification status through the Art Therapy Credentials Board. She has served on professional boards and committees at local, regional, and national levels within the U.S.

Her career includes clinical work in behavioral health, correctional, educational, medical, and social services settings, and she now draws upon these experiences in her online private practice. She earned her master’s degree in art therapy with a specialization in grief and medical counseling from the University of Louisville, where she studied under Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) co-creators, Drs. Vija Lusebrink and Sandra (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn.

These art therapy pioneers trained her in their ahead-of-its-time, nervous system-oriented, outcome-informed framework as a basis for assessment, treatment planning, intervention, progress monitoring, and case conceptualization. Megan enjoys sharing information about the ETC per the ideas and intentions of her professors. She is cultivating a community of ETC enthusiasts and provides ETC supervision as well as live webinars to help others develop appreciation for both the basics and the nuances of this important framework.

www.meganvanmeter.com

Cornelia Elbrecht BA. MA. (Art Ed), AThR, SEP, has more than 40 years of experience as an art therapist. She is also a Somatic Experiencing trauma therapist (SEP). She is the director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy. She has studied Expressive Arts Therapies at the School for Initiatic Art Therapy in Germany, also Jungian and Gestalt therapy, Bioenergetics and bodywork.

She is founder and director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy, School for Initiatic Art Therapy. She has lectured in Art Therapy at RMIT, Melbourne. Cornelia is a registered professional member and accredited supervisor of ANZACATA, the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Art Therapy Association and IEATA International Expressive Arts Therapies Association. Cornelia gives courses and individual sessions internationally, throughout Australia and in private practice at Claerwen Retreat in Apollo Bay, Australia.

www.sensorimotorarttherapy.com

Juliet L. King, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, LMHC, is an Associate Professor of Art Therapy at The George Washington University and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine. With over two decades of experience as a clinician, educator, and administrator, Dr. King's research focuses on the integration of art therapy and neuroscience, making the science of therapeutic arts accessible and adaptable to diverse sociocultural contexts.

Her PhD in Translational Health Sciences culminated in the development and testing of a neuroscience-informed art therapy toolkit designed for the treatment of psychological trauma.

She is the author and editor of Art Therapy, Neuroscience, and Trauma: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives, with the second edition published in 2024.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003348207/art-therapy-neuroscience-trauma-juliet-king-christianne-strang

Catherine Hyland Moon (she/her/hers) is Professor Emerit, Department of Art Therapy and

Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Author of Studio Art Therapy: Cultivating the

Artist Identity in the Art Therapist and contributing editor of Materials and Media in Art

Therapy: Critical Understandings of Diverse Artistic Vocabularies, she has worked in varied

settings, including a psychiatric hospital, home-based behavioral healthcare, and a studio-based

private practice. Her current art therapy work is focused on co-leading cross-cultural

therapeutic arts training programs in East Africa through Global Alliance for Africa and co-

facilitating a free community art studio in the U.S. aimed at cultivating collective care across

social differences. Her professional publications and presentations in art therapy have focused

on the unique contributions of an art-based perspective in therapeutic practice, community-

based art studios as public healthcare, the ethics of art therapy in international collaboration

and exchange, and intersectional, socially just approaches to care within art therapy praxis and

organizational structures. Her current artmaking centers around assembling and repurposing

strategies, whether through text-based works, collage, painted assemblages, found object

constructions, or fiber-based creations.