Practitioner-Led Research in Community: Connectors, Collaborators, Transformers of the Art Therapy Profession (NY-RE5230)
Panels
Lynn Kapitan, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM
Lynn Kapitan, PhD, ATR-BC, Professor and Director of the Professional Doctorate in Art Therapy at Mount Mary University. She is a former Editor of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, Past President of AATA, and a cross-cultural research consultant with international nongovernmental organizations, primarily in Latin America. She is the author of Introduction to Art Therapy Research.
Danielle Moss, DAT, ATR-BC, LPC
Dani Moss, DAT, ATR-BC, LPC is assistant professor of graduate art therapy at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She works with children and their families. She researched art therapists’ experiences on the journey between graduation from art therapy training to obtaining the ATR-BC and created an illustrated video fable.
Lauren Leone, DAT, ATR-BC, LMHC
Lauren Leone, DAT, ATR-BC, LMHC works with art therapy participants in private and community-based practice and is a faculty member at Lesley University. She received a doctorate in art therapy from Mount Mary University where her research investigated how craft activism can support art therapy clients in being agents of social change.
Erin Headley, MS, LPC, ATR-BC
Erin Headley works in private practice at the Portland OCD and Anxiety Center and as an adjunct faculty member of Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR. She is a doctoral student at Mount Mary University researching art-based methods to promote advocacy and visibility for people with OCD.
Melanie Heindl, MS, ATR, LPC
Melanie Heindl is an art therapist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin currently serving as a Clinical Services Supervisor in an outpatient mental health clinic. Melanie specializes in developmental and complex traumas, working specifically with youth and their families involved in juvenile justice and child welfare. She is a doctoral student at Mount Mary University, where she serves as adjunct faculty in the graduate art therapy department. She received her Masters at Mount Mary in 2012. Her current work focuses on anti-oppressive trauma focused practice.
Jonathan Haag, DAT, ATR-BC, LISW-S
Jonathan Haag is an Assistant Professor of Art Therapy at Millikin University. He has 25 years of experience as an Art Therapist. Previously, he worked at Ohio’s Hospice of Dayton in the capacity of Art Therapist for 16 years and developed the art therapy program, Drawn Together.
Panelists describe effects of their practitioner-led research projects when supported by a community of practice committed to transforming art therapy knowledge and practice. Conceived as a third path between scientific and artistic inquiry, practitioner-led research is conducted in collaborative partnership with everyday art therapy practice in a complex social world.