The conference is organized into nine main subject tracks to help participants find areas of interest. During the proposal submission process, each proposal submitter selected one category to best describe their session. AATA uses these categories for the final Program Guide.
Contemporary Issues/Current Trends
Sessions that present information in Activism (AC), Grief/Mourning (GM), Autism (AU), Professional Practice (PP), Trauma (TR), and Ethics (ET).
Advanced Practice Courses and Workshops have limited seats and require additional registration and fees. All other sessions (e.g. panels, papers, performances, and videos) are included as part of conference registration and do not need additional registration.
Please note the program is still in formation!
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| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Professional Practice | PP138 | Creating Mandalas through the Great Round: Deepening into Natural Cycles of Life | Paige Scheinberg, Susanne Fincher | All-Day Advanced Practice Course Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/14 | 9 am |
| Professional Practice | PP106 | The Art of Private Practice: Developing an Inquisitive Mindset and Authentic Approach | Emery Mikel | All-Day Advanced Practice Course Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/14 | 9 am |
| Professional Practice | PP33 | Healing Connection: Art and Relational Cultural Therapy in Trauma-Informed Eating Disorder Care | Laura Rickles, Kasha Seltzer | Half-Day Advanced Practice Course Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/14 | 9 am |
| Professional Practice | PP11 | The Embodied Art Therapist: Theory and Practice for a New Paradigm | Marie de Bethune, Kelley Linhardt, Valeria Koutmina, Emily Nolan | Panel | 10/15 | 11:15 am |
| Professional Practice | PP17 | Working with Recurrent Dreams and Nightmares in Art Therapy | Sophie Boudrias | Paper | 10/15 | 11 am |
| Professional Practice | PP158 | Exploring Existential Paradox Through Art Therapy | Elizabeth Hlavek | Paper | 10/15 | 12 pm |
| Professional Practice | PP6 | Mindfulness and Art Therapy | Patricia Isis | Paper | 10/15 | 3 pm |
| Professional Practice | PP50 | Exploring Sexuality, Non-Monogamy and A-Typical Relationships | Pamela Malkoff | Workshop Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/15 | 4 pm |
| Professional Practice | PP187 | Art Therapy Meets Psychedelics: Personal and Professional Perspectives From the Field | Emily Segal, Rebecca Wilkinson, Juanita Viera, Valerie Epstein-Johnson | Panel | 10/16 | 11:15 am |
| Professional Practice | PP66 | Engaging Art Therapists Worldwide About Current And Future Trends Of The Profession | Malissa Morrell, Theresa Van Lith | Paper | 10/16 | 11 am |
| Professional Practice | PP222 | Sacred Imagination: An Embodied Framework for Spiritual Meaning-Making in Art Therapy | Joselyn Spence | Workshop Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/16 | 2:15 pm |
| Professional Practice | PP116 | Using Arts Therapy to Enhance Salutogenic Coping with Long-Term Social Stress | Ephrat Huss, Tami Gavron, Michal Bat-Or | Workshop Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/16 | 4 pm |
| Professional Practice | PP202 | Where Image Meets Movement: Exploring Interdisciplinary Collaboration Between Art and Dance/Movement Therapy | Alfred Lee, Hannah Whitley | Workshop Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/17 | 10:50 am |
| Professional Practice | PP93 | Past, present, future – surreal, tactile and digital exercises in Art Therapy practice | Simone Alter-Muri, Debra Sarlin | Paper | 10/17 | 12 pm |
| Professional Practice | PP180 | Response Art of Response Art: Peer Model for Clinician Grief Processing | Queenie Wong, Alfred Lee | Workshop Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/17 | 2:15 pm |
| Professional Practice | PP71 | For Those Who Care: Innovative Strategies for Individual, Community, and Systemic Wellbeing | Michelle Torrech Pérez, Casey Barlow, Evie Soape, Marissa Hart, Natalee Marquez | Panel | 10/17 | 2:15 pm |
| Professional Practice | PP174 | Seeing With Every Sense: Using Body-Mind-Spirit When Viewing Artwork | Barbara Robertson | Workshop Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/17 | 4 pm |
| Professional Practice | PP118 | Recuperation Comics: Graphic Medicine to Navigate Burnout and Recovery for Art Therapists | Christine Phang, Erin Partridge | Workshop Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/17 | 4 pm |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Trauma | TR29 | Attachment Repair & Individuation: A Relational Body-Based Approach to Healing Trauma | Paula Howie, Hugh Marr | All-Day Advanced Practice Course Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/14 | 9 am |
| Trauma | TR191 | Break the Lens of American Terror: Clinical Outreach Assessment Post Community Trauma | Nicole Porter Davis | All-Day Advanced Practice Course Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/14 | 9 am |
| Trauma | TR232 | The Clinical Practice of Using Clay in Addressing Attachment Trauma – Sensorimotor Approach | Brittany Johnson | Half-Day Advanced Practice Course Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/14 | 1 pm |
| Trauma | TR184 | Trauma Processing as a Heroic Journey: Analysis of Handsewn Story Cloths | Delaine Due, Girija Kaimal, Rachel A. Cohen, Tsun Wai Cherry Ng | Panel | 10/15 | 4 pm |
| Trauma | TR126 | Art Therapy Supporting the Emotional Journey of Fertility Treatment | Aleecia Kaloustian | Paper | 10/15 | 4 pm |
| Trauma | TR131 | Art as Disaster Response: Arts-based Psychological First Aid and Art Therapy | Delaine Due, Joseph Scarce, Angela Modzelewski | Panel | 10/16 | 2:15 pm |
| Trauma | TR127 | Trauma-Informed Hospitality and Community Engagement Through Art Therapy | Susan Kappel | Workshop Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/17 | 10:15 am |
| Trauma | TR189 | Oh Baby! Processing Birth Trauma through Art Therapy: Therapist and Client Perspectives | Laura Martin, V. Rogers | Paper | 10/17 | 12 pm |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Autism | AU229 | Supporting Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) in Art Therapy: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach | Amy Seitlin | Paper | 10/15 | 4 pm |
| Autism | AU47 | Finding Our Planet: A Social Empowerment Art-Therapy Group For Late‑Diagnosed Autistic Women | Gabrielle Gingras | Paper | 10/16 | 12 pm |
| Autism | AU194 | Benefits of Skills-Based Art Therapy in Behavioral Settings | Cambria Stovicek, Molly Boldt | Poster | 10/16 | 4 pm |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Activism | AC105 | Activist Art in Practice: Learnings from 2020 Twin Cities BLM Protest Art | Kristyn Stickley | Paper Presentation | 10/16 | 11 am |
| Activism | AC205 | Americana Blues Performance by Global Mass Child Trauma Responder | Nicole Porter Davis | Performance | 10/16 | 2 pm |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Grief/Mourning | GM216 | Autoethnographic Poem Making After Fire Disaster | Nancy Choe | Paper | 10/15 | 3 pm |
| Grief/Mourning | GM142 | Creative Arts Therapy and Self‑Esteem During the Menopausal Transition: A Mixed‑Methods Study | Meryl Cooper | Paper | 10/16 | 12 pm |
| Grief/Mourning | GM209 | When Legacy Work Hurts: Timing and Considerations for Hospital End-of-Life Memorial Art | Alyssa Millard | Paper | 10/16 | 2 pm |
| Grief/Mourning | GM182 | Canvas as a Container – How Art Held my Grief | Rebecca Arnold | Performance | 10/17 | 2 pm |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Ethics | ET124 | Rooted in Ethics & Rising Innovation – Research & Publication in Art Therapy | Kerry Kruk-Borisov, Emily Nolan, Theresa Van Lith, Leara Glinzak | All-Day Advanced Practice Course Requires Separate Registration (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/14 | 9 am |
| Ethics | ET173 | Ethical Applications of AI in Art Therapy Education, Practice, and Supervision | Eileen Douglas | Paper | 10/15 | 11 am |
| Ethics | ET117 | Shades of Black and White: Ethics in Community Art Programs | Janet Kempf | Paper | 10/15 | 2 pm |
| Ethics | ET235 | The Art of Self Disclosure: Ethical Boundaries in Therapist Artmaking with Clients | Traci Bitondo, Mallory Lang, Emily Englich | Paper | 10/16 | 2 pm |
| Ethics | ET178 | Nomadism in Art Therapy and the Act of Making a Mark | Mitra Reyhani Ghadim | Paper | 10/17 | 12 pm |