Please click directly on the name of the art therapist to contact them via e-mail for information about their practice. These listings are provided as a service and should in no way be considered as endorsement for the services offered or rendered.Although the Georgia Art Therapy Association (GATA) is here to help with finding an art therapist and learning about art therapy, it does not oversee or take responsibility for the work of its members. Members are to adhere to the Ethical Considerations and Standards of Conduct under the Code of Professional Practice provided by the Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB), and are responsible for holding their own liability insurance.

Registered Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor
Area: Decatur, Atlanta
Address: 743 College Ave NE, Suite E
Decatur, GA 30030

Email:
Website: http://arttherapyatlanta.com
Phone: 404-272-3890
Private Practice: Virginia works with adults and older teenagers in individual, group, and couples art therapy and counseling at her art therapy studio in Decatur, GA.
Other Services: Retreats, Continuing Ed Classes, Supervision, Consultation groups with therapists who want to use art in their counseling practice, Enneagram typing sessions and classes. (Trained in the Narrative tradition of the Enneagram).
Expertise/Experience: Virginia has over 10 years of experience in the field of art therapy. Her work with clients ranges from short term, issue-focused counseling to long term psychodynamic psychotherapy. Her work combines art therapy with depth psychology. Her on-going art therapy groups for women have become a place for continued growth and development for many women on an ongoing basis.

Registered Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor
Area:  Atlanta, Midtown, Decatur
Telephone: (404) 290-8773
Email:
Website: www.creatingmandalas.com
Other Services: Supervision, Workshops, Lectures
Expertise/Experience: Susanne is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Board Certified Art Therapist, and a Certified Counseling Supervisor. Since 1976 she has worked as an art therapist and counselor in mental health settings, schools, and hospitals. She serves as Ethics Chair for the Georgia Art Therapy Association. Susanne offers art therapy supervision, workshops, and classes at Plum Blossom Studio in Decatur, Georgia. She takes a Jungian approach in her work. Susanne is internationally known for her books about "mandalas" (Sanskrit for "sacred circle"). Through her own experience, as well as that of her clients and supervisees, Susanne has come to know the power of art for healing, wisdom, and vitality.

Board Certified Registered Art Therapist

• South Metro Program (GNETS)
• Hospice of NE GA Medical Center
• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA)
• Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
• Clay White Activity Based Sensory Driven Therapeutic Programs
|• Piedmont-Fayette Cancer Wellness Center

Area: Atlanta, Northeast Georgia, Clayton County
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Private Practice: Children, Adolescents, Adult, Individual, Group, Family  
Other Services: Supervision, Workshops, Internships, Consultations
Expertise/Experience: Jenny has two decades of experience working with children and adolescents with severe emotional and behavioral disorders, and dual diagnosis. She also has extensive experience in working with bereavement issues and provides art therapy grief counseling to individuals as well as to groups. Through Hospice of Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Jenny provides school based bereavement art therapy groups as well as summer bereavement camps. She also provides art therapy support groups to seriously ill patients and their families at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.Jenny consults with other professionals offering insights and diagnostic information regarding artwork from their clients. She provides workshops and in-services to professionals on the use of expressive techniques with a variety of populations. Jenny’s thesis completed in 2007 for her Ed.S degree, explores her practice after a couple of decades of service, and is available by clicking here. She utilizes the approach that Art in Therapy as well as Art as Therapy both benefit the client in obtaining insights into their inner world, bringing material forward, making it easier to access change and growth. Additionally, she understands the necessity of awakening the inner artist, which resides in all of us. Below is a short 3-minute PSA (public service announcement) that sums up her current philosophy:

Board Certified Art Therapist
Certified Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator
Health Rhythms Group Empowerment Drum Circle Facilitator
Area: Birmingham, Alabama; Travels nationally and internationally providing services
Address: 204 Oak Road, Birmingham, AL 35216-1410
Telephone: (205) 979-1744
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Website: www.sacredlabyrinth.com/annette
Other link: www.labyrinthsociety.org
Private Practice: Individual, Group, Children, Adolescents, Adults
Other Services: Supervision, Internships, Mentoring, Workshops, Presentations, Consultations
Expertise/Experience: Annette offers art therapy and labyrinth contract services for individuals and groups of children, adolescents, adults, and older adults with emotional and physical challenges. Services might also include creative expression using music, movement, and percussion instruments.She has experience using art therapy with at-risk and special ed. adolescents in alternative school settings; with children and adults who have life threatening illnesses in health care settings, support groups, and camps; with adults and older adults in-patient and out-patient mental health care settings. Annette also offers art therapy supervision, internships, mentoring, workshops, and presentations. Labyrinth services include consultation, workshops, creating temporary and permanent labyrinths for homes, conferences, retreats, camps, faith communities, and therapeutic groups, and ceremonies. Annette, a licensed health care professional for over 30 years, is a registered nurse and has worked as a CPE interfaith hospital chaplain. Her work is multidimensional, weaving together the physical, emotional, and spiritual. Through her enthusiasm and vitality, Annette shares her love of multicultural folk dance, singing, and percussion in her art therapy and labyrinth work.

Board Certified Registered Art Therapist
Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association
Area: Atlanta & environs
Address: 2246 Northside Drive
Email:
Telephone: (404) 351-8111
Private Practice: Adults, Individuals
Other Services: Workshops, Classes, Seminars, Inservices
Expertise/Experience:

• Personal growth/identity
• Transitions/crisis
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Mind/body/spirit
• Ongoing recovery in alcoholism
  

Maxine works with reverence for the transformational nature of art using a synthesis of Jungian psychology, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, gestalt therapy and the mind/ body/ spirit connection.She  is an award winning artist, board certified art therapist, a member of the American Art Therapy Association and a diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association. She earned both her BFA & Master's degree at Pratt Institute, NY, and has psychoanalytic psychotherapy certification from the Long Island Institute, NY. Her employment for many years as a Madison Avenue art director involved her in the inner workings of advertising. Because of her lifelong fascination with the visual image, and the transformative potential of art, she pursued further training using art for healing. She has additional advanced training in the psychology of health, immunity and disease, interactive guided imagery, adult survivors of child abuse and trauma, and conscious aging. Her 35 years of  clinical experience includes implementing and supervising art therapy programs and leading workshops. Currently she has a private practice working with adults, teaches in the Savannah College of Art & Design Community Education program teaching" Introduction to Art Therapy" and "The Artist's Way" plus workshops in the mind/body/spirit connection and the retrieval of self. She actively maintains her personal art making currently in ceramic sculpture, collage, drawing, beaded sculpture and special commission work. Her work can be found in The Carter Center and private collections.

Board Certified Registered Art Therapist 
The EASEL, Inc.
Area: NE Cobb County, Cherokee County
Address: 3660 Canton Rd., Suite 200, Marietta, GA 30066
Telephone: (770) 713-4794
Email:
Website:www.easel-arttherapy.com/
Private Practice: Adult, Children, Individual, Group
Other Services:  Classes, Supervision, Workshops Expertise/Experience:  Cyndie Westrich, M.A., ATR-BC offers both art therapy as well as art classes for personal growth and wellness at her studio the EASEL, Inc. (Expressive Arts Studio for Empowerment in Living). The EASEL studio is located in the north metro area of Atlanta located in Northeast Cobb County. With over thirteen years of clinical experience in residential treatment facilities, schools and psychiatric hospitals, she offers a range of art therapy services for women and children. Art classes for adults, which focus on facilitating art expression for wellness, can be taken in a relaxed community studio setting. Workshops and presentations are available for facilities and organizations. To receive a free copy of Palette, the newsletter of the EASEL, and/or a brochure on art therapy, contact .

Registered Art Therapist, Board Certified
Area: Atlanta
Address:  4765 Jett Rd NW, Atlanta, Ga. 30327
Telephone: (404) 405-0026
Email:
Private Practice: Individual with children, teens and adults
Other Services: Supervision

Expertise/Experience: Phyllis has been in practice for 17 years. She instituted the first art therapy program at Hillside Psychiatric Hospital, a residential facility for adolescents dealing with severe emotional behavior disorders. Phyllis is currently in private practice and sees adolescents, children, and adults in her studio. She has a Masters degree in sculpture, and her art is in numerous private collections. Phyllis uses a multi-disciplinary approach. She specializes in the use of image-making, collage, visualization, and imagination to work on issues of addiction, sexual abuse, eating disorders, anxiety, artistic blocks, motivation, life transitions, and grief. She uses art to explore feelings, help clients gain insight into themselves, and grow through their knowledge of themselves, while developing a sense of confidence and inner calm.

Board Certified Registered Art Therapist Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Jungian oriented Certified Sandplay Therapist at the Teaching Member level of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy
Area: Sandy Springs
Address:  The Link Counseling Center, 348 Mt. Vernon Hwy. NE, Sandy Springs, GA 30328
Telephone: 404/256-9797
Website: http://www.sandplay-alchemy.com
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Private Practice: , Adolescents, Adults, Individual and Couples
Other Services: Sandplay Therapy Supervision

Expertise/Experience: Donna has 35 years experience in mental health. Her experience includes 18 years in private practice from a Jungian psychology orientation prior to joining The Link Counseling Center. Other experience contains Employee Assistance counseling, mental health centers, and psychiatric hospitals. She has lectured nationally on nonverbal expressive therapies combining art and sandplay therapies. Her interpersonal style is engaged, sincere, and well grounded. Specialty areas include mood disorders, anxiety disorders, "worried" children with perfectionism issues, mind/body/spirit connection through mindfulness, release of artistic blocks, relationship issues, chronic illness and chronic pain, grief reactions, trauma resolution (EMDR), and dream work from a Jungian perspective. Donna completed a Masters degree in painting. To view her artwork, please visit www.donnajohnsonart.com.

Registered Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor
Area: Marietta
Address: 1640 Powers Ferry Rd, Bldg 2 Ste 150 Marietta, GA 30067
Telephone: 770-296-2971
Website: artitout.org
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Private Practice: Teresa works with children, adolescents, teens and parents in her private studio (Art It Out Therapy Services) in Marietta, GA.

Expertise/Experience: Teresa has worked in a variety of settings including: hospitals, schools, clinics and private practice. She specializes in working with children and adolescents who have low self-esteem, anxiety, difficulty adjusting to parental divorce, ADHD, OCD, or Bipolar Disorder. Teresa also helps clients who do not have a diagnosis but would benefit from gaining coping skills for dealing with life's stressors. Teresa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Registered Art Therapist (ATR), Georgia Certified Art Teacher, Trauma and Loss Clinical Specialist (CTS), and Certified Anger Management Specialist (CAMS). She sees clients in groups and individually and specializes in working with children and teens, ages 5 to 18.