Art Therapy Heals, LLC

Ready to level-up your career in collaboration with a dynamic group of art therapy colleagues? Feeling isolated as the only art therapist at your job? Want to help advance the profession???
Nominations for BATA officers and committee chairs for the 2026-2028 BATA Board of Directors are now open! We hope you'll consider nominating yourself or another. Nominations close on June 15th. Eligible BATA members recently received nomination ballots via email.

For more information or questions contact: Melissa Hladek, Nominations Committee Chair, [email protected] or Heather Denning, Secretary, [email protected]

Save the date for our 45th Annual Symposium, to be held November 5, 6, 7th 2026 at the Mt. Vernon Estates, Ashland, OH! This year's theme will be "Amplifying Expressive Therapies," with keynote speaker Krystal Demaine, PhD, REAT, ATR-BC, RYT! Please mark your calendars and consider proposing a paper, panel, or workshop! The call for papers will be forthcoming.

Donations help fund therapy sessions, art supplies and program activities so patients can experience the healing power of creativity.
https://wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E360384&id=14

Call for Art!🚨📣 🎉

🎨Art plays a key role in helping people and communities find peace during turbulent times. It always has and it always will. These remarkable times we are currently in are no different!

📥We are seeking submissions from artists, art therapists/ expressive therapists, creative counselors, artist communities, local groups, schools, therapy programs, and other creatives. Show us how you're using art as a path to peace in these turbulent times! Our spacious host gallery at Cuyahoga Community College's Eastern Campus (4250 Richmond Rd., Highland Hills, OH, 44122) can accept 2-D work, 3-D work, interactive installations, and performance art for opening night. Details for submission requirements, artwork drop-off, special arrangements, and other details can be found here: https://myglobalarts.com/art/

📆Exhibition dates are March 5th - April 9th, 2026. Artwork drop-off dates are February 24-26th.

🎉We are pleased to be celebrating the 25th year of our FREE community healing arts annual exhibit, in collaboration with the Undergraduate Art Therapy Program at Ursuline College, Counseling & Art Therapy Program, Ursuline College, and Cuyahoga Community College's Pre-Art Therapy program. We have extra special plans to mark this joyful occasion, as we express years of gratitude for the impact of this annual event that raises awareness about the power of art and the benefits of art therapy.

🤩We hope you will join us for our opening night reception on Thursday March 5th, 5:30-8:30, which will include interactive displays, performance art, silent auction, research displays, and a keynote speech "Art Speaks for Social Justice" from BATA President Katherine Jackson, Vice-President Melissa Perry Hladek, and Legislative Chair Shayna Mell. Register ahead and earn a free CEU! On Friday March 6th, we are offering two hands-on workshops (4 CEUs each!), both 9am-1pm. Our keynote presenters will offer one workshop to share art activities they have used in their social justice work, and art therapist Barbara Trauger-Querry will offer "A peaceful space: Personal Altars & Sacred Space." Both workshops cost $45 each and include art supplies and light refreshments. Registration for all CEU bearing activities can be found here:https://myglobalarts.com/art/Reg-Form-2026.pdf

😍 Thanks to Ursuline College undergraduate art therapy major Giavanna Victor for her powerful painting, "Solace," featured here!

Hope to see art therapists this Sunday afternoon for support and community building 🎨

Join us online Sunday November 16th for our last Regional Meeting of 2025, featuring Cleveland-based artist and psychotherapist J. Subsinsky presenting “The Inner Labyrinth: Exploring Dreams, Art, and Myth for Personal Insight.” Through a guided creative art intervention. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with archetypal imagery firsthand, tapping into unconscious material through intuitive art making. This experiential process allows for a deepened relationship with one’s inner world. FREE 1.5hr CEUs for BATA Members, $10 for non-members. No sign-ups, just join online through the zoom link below. Connect with colleagues from the comfort of your home, participate in the work of your professional association, and learn inspiring, valuable information and keep building your skills! Hope you can join!!!
Sunday November 16th 2025
4-5:30pm Virtual Membership Meeting with the BATA Board of Directors
6-7:30pm Virtual 1.5hr CEU Event
Join through this link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7901446488?omn=89854369083

Excited to have co-authored a chapter in this publication🥳

New Book!

Treatment Approaches for Body Image in Art Therapy

Editors
Eileen Misluk-Gervase
Taylor McLane
Heidi Moffatt

To enhance therapeutic treatment of body image, this book examines the multi-factors involved in body image as well as the neuroscience of body image, that is the role of the brain in body image development.

Examining the social, cultural, psychological and environmental implications of body image, readers are guided through various problems, clinical populations, treatment settings, art therapy approaches, best practices, and clinical case examples.

Content is divided into categories of: body image in medical settings, eating disorder treatment, and trauma - including chapters on amputations, s*x trafficking, trauma, q***r body image, peri and postpartum, cancer, and other medical conditions.
Published: Aug 21 2025
Jessica Kingsley Publishers

More info
https://www.arttherapygestalt.com/online-shoping

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