FEATURED GUESTS: Stephen Quinlan grew up in the mountains of Colorado. After finishing his bachelors degree, he decided to go back to school to become a psychotherapist. In 1999, he moved to New York City to work on his graduate degree. He worked for five years in the housing projects of East Harlem at the James Weldon Johnson Counseling Center, which is well known for its rigorous training of young therapists. His work focused on working with children who had severe emotional needs through play therapy. Additionally, he  worked with adults who were dealing with issues related to depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. He also worked on the front lines of 9/11 and with the Red Cross.

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FEATURED GUESTS: 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 a 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.

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FEATURED GUESTS: Barry M. Cohen, MA, ATR-BC Retired, authored the Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS) in 1982; is the author/coauthor of journal articles and chapters; and coauthored/coedited three books, including the workbook Managing Traumatic Stress Through Art. Founder of the Eastern Regional Conference on Trauma & Dissociation in 1989, he cofounded an inpatient dissociative disorders unit in Washington, DC, in 1991. He was recruited to manage the 2006/2007 AATA conferences, then served as Executive Director of Expressive Media from 2008 through 2021. He founded the Expressive Therapies Summit: NYC in 2010, cofounded the Mid-Atlantic Play Therapy Training Institute with Eliana Gil in 2013, and with Ping Ho, the LA Summit in 2017. He is currently the Executive Director of the Expressive Therapies Summits.

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FEATURED GUESTS: Stephanie Wray is an artist, LMHC, ATR-BC, trauma informed expressive arts therapist and yoga teacher. In her work over the last 6 years she has responded to 49 natural and human caused disasters through the arts. Stephanie has been working with clients one on one as well during this time. In addition she has taught at the University of Tampa, started an online community-The Art Flow Lounge. Stephanie is launching her personal private practice in March 2022-Art Flow Therapy where she will serve women who are experiencing effects of past trauma, anxiety, grief and chronic illness.

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FEATURED GUESTS: Richard Gold, MA, is the retired founder/executive director of the Pongo Poetry Project and creator of the Pongo Method. Pongo establishes writing programs within sites such as detention centers and homeless shelters, and guides teens to process traumatic events while giving them a voice and showing them how to "own" their stories by connecting with others and themselves. His book is titled, Writing with At-Risk Youth: The Pongo Teen Writing Method is available for purchase on Amazon.

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FEATURED GUESTS: Wanda Montemayor, LPC-S-AT, ATR-BC, ATCS, RPT-S, has been creating public art for more than 23 years. With a bachelor's in art education, a master's in professional counseling, a post-secondary degree in art therapy, and MARI training, Wanda focuses on creating large-scale works of art through group art therapy focusing on hand-made ceramics. Wanda's 10 murals adorn schools and parks across the Austin region: multiple years in the marking, they are created through multiple group art therapy sessions. She has been leading children and adolescent art therapy groups for more than 14 years., servicing a diverse cross-section of teens around Austin, and has more recently developed skills as a virtual art therapy group facilitator.

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"Mosaic: The Deep Eddy Mural Project" Documentary Film. 

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FEATURED GUESTS: Mimi Savage, PhD, RDT-BCT, is the Education Chair of the North American Drama Therapy Association, core faculty in the MA Counseling Psychology & Expressive Arts department at CIIS, as well as founding faculty of UCLArts and Healing SEA program. Mimi created various drama therapy programs in acute psychiatric in-patient units for children and adults, facilitated programs for developmentally delayed youth, the formerly homeless, and youth in residential rehab. Lecturing and publishing on the intersection of identity in youth experiencing adoption and foster care, she is Director-founder of the SoCal Drama Therapy Center in LA, leads professional development workshops, and trains those who want to become drama therapists.

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FEATURED GUESTS: Shoshana Simons, PhD, RDT, an expressive arts-centered drama therapist, voice actor, professor and former Chair of the CIIS Counseling Psychology program, Expressive Arts Therapy concentration. She earned her MA in Human Development and PhD in Human & Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate Institute, an MA in Sociology & Social Policy from London Metropolitan University, UK. Shoshana completed her drama therapy training at the Omega Theater Transpersonal Drama Therapy Program, MA. Her extensive training and experience in the UK and USA in community-based work with children & families, counseling, education, leadership and systems change informs her work preparing expressive arts therapy students to transform mental health systems into humane, equitable, and culturally responsive communities of practice. Shoshana also offers “NarrARTive” coaching workshops and courses through Key of Life Academy, and the North West Creative & Expressive Arts Institute based on the narrative expressive arts approach to counseling and coaching she has been developing over the last decade at CIIS.

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FEATURED GUEST: Dr. Amber Elizabeth Gray is a trailblazer in the use of Dance/Movement Therapy, Somatic Psychology and Continuum in global multi-cultural and trauma contexts. She has provided clinical training on the integration of refugee mental health, torture treatment and creative arts, mindfulness, and body-based therapies with survivors and refugees to programs worldwide. Amber developed Restorative Movement Psychotherapy, a resiliency-based clinical approach for mind-heart-body-spirit infused therapies with survivors of interpersonal, complex, ancestral, collective  and multi-generation trauma.  Her deep immersion in Polyvagal Theory birthed “Polyvagal-informed Somatic and Dance Movement Therapies”, the focus of her upcoming book.

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FEATURED GUESTS: Jeni Swerdlow, MA-ATR, Founder & "Chief Rhythm Activator" of DRUMMM Rhythmic Events, is a dynamic and engaging facilitator, presenter and trainer with a passion for drumming and mission to build connections through rhythm. Founded in 2000, DRUMMM's popular facilitated drum circles and interactive rhythm events engage 10,000 participants a year at a variety of setting in the U.S. and abroad. 

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