She has worked in partnership with arts therapists, Allied Health Professions, Psychologists, and Psychotherapists within a range of settings. Her practice is now with professionals and teams using art-based approaches for work-related stress, having completed a PhD on this topic in 2015. She continues her research work within the NHS and on a freelance basis. An interest in the importance of the body/mind connection in all these processes has led her to set up a new project with Kings College Hospital where she is developing online art therapy groups for people living with chronic pain.

In 2003, Dr Huet was appointed the first Chief Executive Officer of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT). From October 2020 to July 2002, she was its Director of Research. She lectures internationally and has published extensively. Her art practice focuses on life drawing and sculpture.

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Dr. Zhou serves on an international advisory board for the journal Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy. He founded Inspirees Education Group and Creative Arts Education and Therapy (CAET) – Eastern and Western Perspectives, the international open access journal. He is also a certified movement analyst (CMA) trained by LIMS in New York. Dr. Zhou is the team leader for the Chinese Group of Arts Therapy, Chinese Psychological Society, Guest Professor of Beijing Normal University, Co-founder and core member of World Alliance of Dance Movement Therapy. He also serves as the CEO of International Association of Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (IACAET).

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Her clinical practice included inpatient and outpatient treatments for adults with mental health issues. In her established private practice for couples and families Michal incorporates expressive therapies to deal with intimacy issues and promote wellbeing. Dr. Lev was the head of the approval committee for YAHAT- the Expressive Therapies Organization in Israel between 2016-2022, supporting public legislation for expressive therapies. Since 2022 she is an Executive Committee member in the International Association for Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (IACAET), and a co-editor for the open access Journal – CAET. As a social activist, artist, and enterpreuner, she maintains artmaking for innovation, inquiry and knowledge. Since October 7th, 2023 terrorist attack, Michal has been significant and influential in the establishment of field-treatment centers, supervising and treating victims and survivors.

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He has served as director at the Arbour Counseling Partial Hospitalization Program in Norwell, MA and also the founding director of the arts therapy department at Whittier Street Health Center, Boston. He has worked and developed programs with individuals and groups in conflict around the globe.

After 9/11 he developed and implemented the Healing Arts Program, an arts-based ‘trauma recovery/prevention’ program in Boston and New York City.

In the early 1990’s he was a founding member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and served as co-chair. During the 1980’s he lived in Sweden and did pioneering work in the field of Expressive Arts & Expressive Arts Therapy throughout Scandinavia. Phil is a senior lecturer at Lesley University, Cambridge MA & research associate at Drama For Life, University of the Witwatersrand, SA.  He has taught at numerous colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. He has worked extensively within the fields of mental health, special education, arts and medicine/health/disabilities and conflict transformation.

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She is the Co-Founder of ‘Synchrony’, an organisation that provides mental health services and trainings through creative arts with various populations. Ms. Mehta is the elected Treasurer and the Founding board member of IADMT. She is an Advisory  Board  Member of Creative Movement Therapy Association, India.  She has represented her work in India on multiple International Conferences and contributed to article on development of DMT in Asia. Her areas of interest are in that of neuro-rehabilitation, cultural consciousness in the body and working with adolescents.

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Upon arrival in Aotearoa, New Zealand, she trained as an Arts Therapist through Whitecliffe. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Auckland in 2016 for an arts-based autoethnographic thesis exploring her arts therapy practice during the Canterbury earthquakes. She is an ardent advocate of arts-based practices, supervises masters and PhD/Prof Doc students at various institutions, is co-editor for the academic journal JoCAT, has published on various aspects of her creative arts therapy/research work in a range of academic journals and books and has presented at conferences/symposia in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. 

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He  presented and trained professionals in Play Therapy, Creative Psychotherapy and trauma in 6 Continents and over 20 Countries.  Claudio is author of Beyond the Clouds: An Autoethnographic Research Exploring Good Practice In Crisis Settings (Mochi, 2022). He has published several book chapters and articles on play therapy and crisis interventions.  He has co-edited the book Play Therapy and Expressive Arts in a Complex and Dynamic World: Opportunities and Challenges Inside and Outside the Playroom (Cassina, Mochi & Stagnitti, 2023) published by Routledge. 

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She has been providing individual and group expressive arts therapy for different populations including local and international schools, corporations, NGOs, youth centres and elderly homes. Prior to becoming a therapist, Joanna had been a Marketing and Communications professional with Fortune 500 companies for over 15 years. With her expertise working in corporate settings, she has been developing different arts-based programmes such as staff training and development, career counselling, employee well-being and engagement , team building, etc. She would love to promote Expressive Arts Therapy to the general public in cultivating personal growth and holistic health.

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Stephen was one of the founding editors of Arts & Health, an international journal for research, policy and practice.  He is joint editor with Professor Paul Camic of the Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health and Wellbeing.

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Kathryn’s practice and research scholarship draws on neuroscience, enactive cognition, creative learning and Deleuzoguattarian thinking. Her focus includes the performative work of making in the visual arts, the connection between art/science, both in educational and medical transdisciplinary research; arts-education and its methods in nurturing critical, ethical and caring individuals; narrative research and the significance of story-telling for individuals and across cultures; arts-based methods; the performative work of image construction; critical and social inquiry; subjectivity insights; embodied learning and visual performative pedagogies as they surround the contemporary subject.

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Although her interest was first lied mostly in drama, she often uses integrative approaches. During her studies in arts therapy, she furthered her skills to work in different social and cultural contexts, also successfully incorporating knowledge and experience she gained while studying cultural anthropology.

Saša is also the founder of Azum Institute (founded in 2015) in which she organises and runs drama and theatre activities for children and creative arts therapeutic workshops for adults, does all the project management and promotion activities.  Since the very beginning in 2015 she has been running a Mini Drama School. She has worked extensively with children and young people from different backgrounds, most notably in the Day Centre for Youth and Families, where she has facilitated creative arts workshops for Albanian children, theatre workshops for children from the Roma settlement, a project on violence among young people “With theatre against violence in action”, and the two-and-a-half-year project “The Cultural Heart of Trzin”, during which she worked with young people and children with intellectual disabilities, the elderly, first-time job seekers and the long-term unemployed. She has been cooperating also with day-care centres for people with intellectual disabilities as well as kindergartens and schools.

She has won several awards for mentoring youth theatre groups and has had two youth texts published in drama collections. From 2020 onwards, Sasa served as the President of the Slovenian Association of Arts Therapists.

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In her 10+ years as a dance/movement therapist, Erica has worked with thousands of patients aged 3-107! Known as “The Therapist Who Moves You,” Erica has truly changed the way people see movement with regard to mental health.  She has been recognized by Maria Shriver’s Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement as a woman making a difference in the fight against Alzheimer’s.  Erica won the 2018 Global Excellence Award in the Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health Category from Global Health & Pharma and the 2020 Social Care Award for Best Movement Therapy Center in Chicagoland.

Erica’s area of expertise has caught the attention of multiple publications such as The Epoch Times, Dance Magazine, Martha Stewart Weddings, and PARADE. As an expert on the intersection of movement and mental health, she has appeared in hundreds of publications, podcasts, live newscasts, and radio including WGN, NBC, The Chicago Sun Times, The Chicago Tribune, Buzzfeed, Bustle, Authority Magazine, Thrive Global, Medium, NBC News Better, Reader’s Digest, and Prevention. As a columnist for Dance Informa Magazine, 30 Seconds, and Thrive Global, Erica writes about all things movement and mental health.

Erica’s is passionate about working with cognitive and movement disorders, neurologic conditions, anxiety and depression, and trauma.  Erica is dedicated to bringing awareness to the field of dance/movement therapy to mainstream culture.  She is eager to provide knowledge on why and how the body should be addressed in the therapeutic relationship; making the information digestible and accessible to anyone seeking to improve mental health.

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She holds credentials as a Board-Certified Music Therapist, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, and Registered Yoga teacher with advanced training in Neurologic Music Therapy, Performance Wellness, Integrative Medicine for Mental Health, and Trauma Sensitive HeartMath, she is a Certified Trauma and Resilience Specialist in Clinical Application (CTRS-C), and is a Listening Hour Practitioner. She has written numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and presented her work across the globe. She is currently Professor of Expressive Therapies at Endicott College in Beverly, MA teaching Art Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy undergraduate degree programs and coordinating the biennial Endicott College Expressive Therapies Symposium. She serves on the undergraduate education committee of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA), is Chair of Professional Development Committee of the Northeast Chapter of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA), is on the IEATA conference planning committee, and the Beverly Cultural Council.

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She has developed training programs in trauma rehabilitation based on the therapeutic use of movement for refugee children and youth, co-authoring chapters. She is providing post-disaster support, staff-care and wellbeing sessions. Seda is the former President of the Arts Psychotherapies Association, Türkiye.

She has worked in many different roles, including as an MHPSS supervisor, dance movement therapist, trainer of trainers, and also a well-being consultant for staff mental health. Additionally, Seda has facilitated trauma-informed, movement-based trainings for teams and teachers; worked with children and mothers under protection; and is currently working in the field of post disaster recovery. Following the devastating 2023 earthquake in Türkiye and Syria, Seda has been training and supervising psychosocial support staff working within the earthquake zones, using embodied methodologies for empowerment.

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She has collaborated with Diane Waller to establish a partnership with Goldsmiths College and her training program and has been directing the training program for more than 20 years. Mimma has been teaching art therapy at the University of Milan, in the medical faculty of psychiatric rehabilitation, and is now co-director of advanced studies at Art therapy Italiana. Teaching art therapy has been a major commitment during her forty years of practice, but she also has a private practice and supervises students and professionals from the mental health field. She has many publications and wrote an handbook on psychodynamic oriented art therapy, co-edited one on children art therapy and another one on group art therapy. Mimma is a painter and I enjoy writing, doing art and spending time in nature.

Mimma works with a broad range of people including psychodynamic oriented art therapist, group trainer, group and individual supervision, creative arts journey and interdisciplinary arts therapies projects, women identity, body tracing applications, creative process and its modalities, art based research, squiggle game and intervisione (ISG)

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She also worked as a primary school teacher for a number of years and was Educational Director of Young People’s theatre in South Africa. Her PhD, from the University of Melbourne Australia, examined the role of oral art forms in supporting Drama pedagogy and intercultural understanding within teacher education and her Masters, from the University of Fort Hare South Africa, examined personal and contextual constraints in the use of classroom drama. She has published and presented numerous papers, books and workshops nationally and internationally. Some of her most recent work involves examining ways in which the Arts (particularly Drama) creates dialogical spaces and supports cultural identities in early childhood, primary, enabling and teacher education contexts. Another of her research interests, that she continues to explore, is identifying Drama strategies and techniques to support and enhance learning and teaching in diverse learning and teaching contexts.

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He is  a mental health advocate, arts in health promoter and practitioner, and author of many scientific publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals and handbooks.

His research interest is in health communication, media, television and film studies, therapeutic theatre, and mental health. He is the Founder and President of the Centre for Research and Practice of Art-related Therapy, Cameroon; and Communication Secretary/Founding member of the Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists (CAYS).

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She is part of the São Paulo State Art Therapy Association, AATESP and is a member of the editorial board of the AATESP Scientific Magazine. Director of GSAHW Brasil (Global South Arts & Health Week). She is currently a professor of the Postgraduate Course in Art Rehabilitation at the Instituto Faces e ArteReab. She provides art therapy and art rehabilitation services to elderly people with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. She carries out research in art therapy and encaustic painting at Ana Carmen Nogueira Ateliê de Artes. 

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