Art Therapy Supervisors
Below is a list of ATR Supervisors in Colorado. COATA does not endorse or recommend specific supervisors but lists them here for you to contact, interview, and determine if they are a good fit for you to gain your ATR and/or LPC credentials.
Cindy Gordon PhD, LPC, ATR-BC
Longmont CO
720-491-1533
healchangegrow@gmail.com
www.healchangegrow.com
In her private practice, Cindy focuses on adults facing the challenges of trauma, grief, self-esteem/ body image, anxiety (including eco-anxiety), physical illness, and life transitions. She welcomes new graduates and seasoned professionals working towards their ATR and/or LPC in supervision. Supervision is one of her passions and she enjoys supporting others as they explore topics such as professional identity, ethics, compassion fatigue and transference/countertransference. Art-making is also a component of supervision.
Susan Slomski, LPC, ACS, ATR-BC
Art Therapy Counseling and Consultation
Approved Clinical Supervisor #4041
Licensed Counselor, Advanced Clinical Supervisor, and Board Certified Art Therapist
Greenwood Village, CO & DTC
303 981-5034
www.arttherapyconsultation.com
susan@arttherapyconsultation.com
With over 25 years of experience as an Art Therapist in inpatient and outpatient settings and private practice, I started Clinical Supervision for art therapists in 2007. My work focuses on art therapy as depth psychology, process-oriented, accessing, witnessing, and holding feelings, conflicts, and ideas of self. Art Therapy allows us in and through when words are not enough.
During my graduate work at Lesley College I had the good fortune of working with Dr. Shaun McNiff, Paolo Knill, Dr. Suzanne Canner-Hume, and Dr. Thomas Moore, integrating depth psychology, archetypal psychology with art and expressive therapy. I deepened my knowledge and trust in the image and its capacity to hold, inform, and transform. Following my graduate work at Lesley College I worked in supervisory capacity with Dr. Myra Levick and trained to utilize and teach the Levick Emotional and Cognitive Art Therapy Assessment. Likewise, I have expertise with The Rawley Silver Draw-a-Story. Utilizing art based assessment is a passion and a key part of my practice and of my supervision approach. I encourage supervisees to ground their practice in an art based assessment of their choosing, to explore their relationship with and response to the image, to trust the process and the image, and to develop their clinical and professional identity.
CO-ATA - Former President
AATA - Recipient of First Nancy Schoebel Distinguished Award for Legislative Action
AATA- Former Western States' Liaison
AATA - Gov't Affairs Committee Member
Michael A. Franklin PhD, ATR-BC
Boulder - Louisville CO
303-709-7509
atmichaelf@gmail.com
www.ArtisYoga.com
My orientation as an art therapist, consultant, and supervisor blends the perspectives of the depth psychologies and expressive therapies with the humanistic principals of transpersonal psychology and client centered therapy. My goal is to support and help guide, with your active participation, the creative and therapeutic exploration of relevant themes related to your clinical work. Areas of expertise:
40 years of experience in the field of art therapy, 35 years teaching and supervising.
Art therapy with diverse populations across the developmental spectrum.
How to look at, understand, and respond to artwork.
Art-based research, yoga, meditation, and connections to art therapy.
Art-based interventions, particularly in-session, empathic methods and community-based approaches.
Professional development including interview skills for employment, resumé review, writing for publication, understanding and navigating agency systems.
Aiya Leah Staller LPC, LAC, ATR-BC
Boulder CO
aiyastaller.com
aiyastaller@gmail.com
720-772-1606
Aiya works from an integrative theoretical orientation that pulls strongly from art psychotherapy perspectives, Sensorimotor (Body-Based) Psychotherapy, EMDR, and contemplative influences (somatic based mindfulness practices and DBT). She is a Naropa University graduate and spent several years as clinical support for master's level art therapy students. She is passionate about supporting art therapists as they form their own identities.