March 29, 2018
Andrea Davis, ATR-BC, LPC-AT-S, works in private practice and has worked with various nonprofits, providing individual and group art therapy services. Recently, she founded her own nonprofit, Dallas Art Therapy, that offers low-cost and free art therapy services for the community. Davis is a Past President of the North Texas Art Therapy Association (NTATA) and volunteered for a number of committees through the AATA and the ATCB on behalf of the profession. Through her work in these capacities, she is “so grateful to be able to meet such amazing professionals and in awe at what talent exists in our profession.” She adds, “Being exposed to the pulse of what is happening in art therapy is my favorite [AATA] membership benefit.”
Davis earned her MA in Humanistic Psychology and went on to complete post graduate art therapy work at the Art Therapy Institute in Dallas, Texas. She is passionate about accessibility to art therapy services, and her dream is to see art therapy licensure and insurance reimbursement in every state.
When asked how art therapy is effective, Davis says, “Just talking about a problem does not take away the bad feeling that resides in the body. Making art has the innate capacity to transform this negative visceral energy, releasing it.”
Cymatic Heart” by Andrea Davis. January, 2018. Needlepoint, needle felting, and watercolor.
Artist’s statement: “My effort to capture the cymatic vibration of the heartbeat as it makes a mandala.”