MA, RCAT, RP

Heidi is a radiant creator, playful by nature, a powerful leader, intelligent to a fault and believes in providing sanctuary to those who need it. She believes art can be the bridge to good stuff we didn't know we needed. A graduate of The Toronto Art Therapy Institute and Martin Luther University, Heidi is in private practice working with marginalized sexualities, neurodiverse folks and young adults. Heidi serves as President for the Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA), is a teacher and instructor.

RCAT, MPS-AT, CCC, SEP, REAT (in process)

Lindsay (she/her/they) is a Métis woman residing in Amiskwaciwâskahikan, Treaty 6 Territory, Metis Nation Region 4. Her roots include Indigenous and settler origins, holding Metis and Cree ancestry as well as Celtic, Scottish, French and Ukrainian; as such, walking in two worlds has been an instrumental part of her life path.

Lindsay is a body-centered, expressive-arts psychotherapist, coach, and guide. Her professional practice lies at the intersection of transformational learning, embodiment, creativity, and personal development. She offers trauma-responsive, creative, and resource-based guidance for all seasons of life - to bloom where you are planted.

She has a particular interest in clinical supervision and in supporting other emerging therapists in the praxis of their own personal and professional identities, along with supporting helping professionals in health and learning systems in developing the capacity for self-awareness and presence as reflective practice as a means to ethical practice through the process of embodiment.

MED, DKATI, BED, BSC

Martine is an art maker, a mother and an educator who lives her life inspired by the creativity she finds in nature, people and the world. She graduated from the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute in 1998 and completed a Masters in School Counseling in 2016. Martine has been an educator and school counselor in the public school system for nearly 15 years. She is the co-founder of Art for People Projects, an organization which raises money to support creative projects both locally and abroad. She is passionate for the outdoors and has enjoyed many slow adventures while bike touring the world with her family. Her approach is strongly flavoured with the gratitude she feels for the relationships in her life, and her commitment to living in the moment.

MA, DVATI, RCAT, LMFT, RMFT, RCC, RYT

Katrina (she/they) is a Registered Canadian Art Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, Registered Couple and Family Therapist in Canada, and Certified Advanced Practitioner of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. She is a graduate of the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, (DVATI - 2001) and holds a Masters in Ecosystemic Clinical Practice with Children Youth and Families from the University of Victoria (2006).

As a somatic and creative arts psychotherapist, she works through liberatory, decolonizing, feminist, embodied relational neuroscience, and ecological views, primarily with themes of complex personal and collective trauma, primarily with Queer, Trans, BIPOC, and Neurodivergent folks. She runs a private practice offering psychotherapy and consultation (www.katrinacurrymft.com) and teaches internationally as faculty with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. She has trained deeply in movement and play and weaves these modalities into her practice and her teaching.

Over the past 25 years Katrina has worked in feminist antiviolence, Drug & Alcohol harm reduction, urban, rural, and remote Indigenous communities, psychiatric care, and community mental health in Canada and the USA. She now lives in the Ancestral Territory of the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations, in Victoria, and offers her practice online.

BA, BFA, RCAT

Evie Dunville was born, raised and is currently practicing Art Therapy in the beautiful K’jipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia.

Evie began her journey to art therapy at Mount Saint Vincent University (2004), completing a BA in Psychology and English, followed by a quick trip around the world, teaching English in South Korea. Once back in Nova Scotia, she completed a BFA in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing from NSCAD University (2010), before earning her certification as an art therapist from the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute (2016). She continues learning each day, from her clients, from the earth, and through her colleagues and other professionals.

Evie believes in creating a sustainable and accessible environment for creativity and wellness to flourish. She often intertwines the written word with art, creating a body of work wherein the form is either emphasized or accentuated by prose and inspired by nature.

BAACS, DKATI, RCAT

Nikki Featherstone is a Registered Canadian Art Therapist who enjoys lifelong passions for art, healing, spirituality, cats, trees, and the sacredness of the everyday. Her therapeutic approach is Feminist, Anti-Oppressive, Person-Centered, Trauma Informed, and Spiritually Integrated.

Nikki is the author of an e-book titled, Shapeshifter: One Woman’s Journey through Creative Spiritual Transformation as part of the completion of her studies with the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute.

BA, DKATI, RCAT

Chelsea (she/her) is a graduate of KATI and has been working as a private practice art therapy clinician since 2017. She is passionate about healing and connection through land based practices and integrates a relational approach to her work and way of being in the world.

Chelsea is a mother, a friend, a teacher and art therapist committed to ongoing learning and growth.

BSc, DKATI, RCAT

Juanita is an avid painter and clinician who offers mental health and substance counselling and art therapy services primarily focused on Indigenous populations. She is devoted to the preservation of traditional knowledge, the use of traditional healing methods and all efforts toward mending our relationship with the Earth. She facilitates workshops and healing circles and offers clinical and art therapy supervision. Her work is grounded by ethical, cultural, and spiritual sensitivity from an ancestral trauma-informed and anti-oppressive approach. Juanita is a Kutenai Art Therapy graduate (2013) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Communications from the University of Idaho (2004). Juanita celebrates the creative and playful spirit in each of us and our endless capacity for change and healing.

BA (Hons), DKATI, RTC, RCAT, CCTP

Cheryl is a clinical counsellor and trauma-informed art therapist. She is also a certified NARM therapist. NARM (The NeuroAffective Relational Model) is specifically designed for working with complex trauma by addressing the attachment patterns that cause life-long psychobiological symptoms and interpersonal difficulties.

Cheryl began her career as a senior residential social worker in a therapeutic unit, using a play therapy approach. After moving from the UK to Canada in 2018 and completing the KATI program, she discovered the ‘missing piece’ she had been looking for in working with trauma. She is now passionate about integrating art therapy with NARM and Internal Family Systems Theory. She is particularly drawn to working with those with trauma-related diagnoses and marginalized populations, including survivors of human trafficking.

Alongside her work as an instructor, Cheryl facilitates art therapy groups and has a private practice where she welcomes individuals of any age, both online and in-person.

DKATI, RCAT

Tayler Schenkeveld holds the spirit name White Thunderbird Woman and is a member of the Manitoba Metis and the Bear Clan. She has roots on Treaty 1 territory in Win-nipi (also known as Winnipeg, MB) and now gratefully resides on Treaty 7 territory in Mohkinstsis (also known as Calgary, AB). She is an artist and a Registered Canadian Art Therapist specializing in Indigenous cultural reconnection, identity formation, community-based healing, and breaking the cycles of intergenerational trauma. Tayler is currently working towards completing the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology program at Yorkville University with plans of future registration with the College of Alberta Psychologists.

B.Ed, DKATI, RCAT

Jennifer Schwartz is a Registered Canadian Art Therapist, Mental Health Therapist, Supervisor, and Instructor with over 20 years experience in Child & Youth Mental Health. She works in private practice virtually and in-person as a Child & Youth Mental Health (CYMH) & Sexual Abuse Intervention (SAIP) Therapist.

Jennifer has completed numerous trainings in complex trauma and child development and has recently started training to become a Mentalization-based therapist. Jennifer’s approach emphasizes play, imagination, and symbolization with a firm footing in attachment, mentalization and object relations theories.

BFA, DTATI, RCAT, RP

Afsaneh Shafai is an interdisciplinary artist, Registered Art Therapist and Psychotherapist, and a person of diaspora of Iranian-Canadian heritage. She graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba and she continued her studies in Art Therapy at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute. She is based in Tkaronto (Toronto), the ancestral territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and the home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. She has decades of clinical experience helping a diverse population of all ages with their mental health struggles. She has considerable knowledge in working with neuro-diverse populations, BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, refugees, newcomers, and war and torture survivor.

BRLS, DKATI, RTC, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Sara is the owner of Golden Light Art Therapy. She provides art psychotherapy to individuals, to groups and offers community-based art making for children, youth, adults and older adults. She walks alongside individuals as they explore issues related to relationships, identity, trauma, life transitions, burn out, grief, loss, stress, pre and post-natal health, parenting, menstrual health, anxiety, depression and spiritual exploration.

Sara's therapeutic approach is relational and trauma informed, rooted in intersectional feminism and she uses a variety of modalities and theoretical frameworks within her work, such as mindfulness-based practices, attachment theory, neuroscience, psychoanalytical theory and nature-based psychotherapy.

She is firmly connected to nature, weaves through her life with curiosity and playfulness and believes in the healing powers found in storytelling, creativity and community.

RCC-ACS, RCAT, REAT

Keith is an artist, musician, yogi, gardener, and highly experienced art therapist, expressive arts therapist, somatic psychotherapist, and clinical supervisor with extensive experience of supporting people to heal and grow from the impacts of trauma and concurrent problems such as addictions, eating disorders, emotional dysregulation, and relationship issues. Originally from England, he currently lives and works on the west coast of Canada.

BFA, DKATI

Nicole is a recent graduate of the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute and is currently working as a professional Art Therapist with multiple agencies in Edmonton, AB. She brings a trauma-informed, relational, and client-centered approach to her practice, with experience in respite care, temporary accommodations for families whose children are undergoing hospital stays and medical treatment, trauma recovery, grief and loss groups, and wellness retreats.

Nicole is an entrepreneur, author, musician, artist, lover of nature. After a life-changing brain surgery in 2021, she fully committed to Art Therapy as a path of healing for both herself and others. She integrates music, movement, and expressive arts into her sessions, creating compassionate, creative spaces for connection and transformation.

BA, DKATI, RCAT

Chelsea (she/her) is a graduate of KATI and has been working as a private practice art therapy clinician since 2017. She is passionate about healing and connection through land based practices and integrates a relational approach to her work and way of being in the world.

Chelsea is a mother, a friend, a teacher and art therapist committed to ongoing learning and growth.

BRLS, DKATI, RTC, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Sara is the owner of Golden Light Art Therapy. She provides art psychotherapy to individuals, to groups and offers community-based art making for children, youth, adults and older adults. She walks alongside individuals as they explore issues related to relationships, identity, trauma, life transitions, burn out, grief, loss, stress, pre and post-natal health, parenting, menstrual health, anxiety, depression and spiritual exploration.

Sara's therapeutic approach is relational and trauma informed, rooted in intersectional feminism and she uses a variety of modalities and theoretical frameworks within her work, such as mindfulness-based practices, attachment theory, neuroscience, psychoanalytical theory and nature-based psychotherapy.

She is firmly connected to nature, weaves through her life with curiosity and playfulness and believes in the healing powers found in storytelling, creativity and community.

BA, RTC, DKATI

Kat is a professional Art Therapist and Artist. Originally from Scotland, Kat is now privileged to live, work and play amongst the traditional territories of the Sinixt, the Syilx, and the Ktunaxa peoples, Nelson BC. Kat supports her clients using a relational, trauma informed approach, and believes passionately in drawing resources from the natural world.

Kat has experience working with children, youth at risk and adults in both indoor and outdoor settings. She currently co-facilitates an Equine Art Therapy practice, named Horses with Heart, which brings together the magic of art therapy with therapeutic experiences with horses.