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You don’t need to be an academic.
You don’t need a research background.
Your clinical experience matters.
You aren’t research-averse, you just need tools.
You belong here, and together we can change the field.
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📢 A platform for practitioner voices
Your observations matter.
Your innovations deserve recognition.
🔓 A challenge to institutional barriers
Academic jargon, paywalled journals, and old-school hierarchies aren't protecting quality — they're protecting territory.
We're democratizing access to research literacy.
🤝 A collaborative learning community
No gatekeeping. No hierarchy. No academic hoops.
Just art therapists committed to each other's success, learning together and elevating each other.
🛠️ A resource hub
Newsletter, courses, workshops, tools, and strategies to help you confidently read, evaluate, apply, and create research — all built specifically for art therapists.
🔬 A movement to bridge that pesky gap
The research-practice gap exists because practicing art therapists can't get heard.
We’re changing that.
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You read research and think, “That’s not what I see in my office.”
You have big ideas but don’t have enough time or training.
You know it works, but you can’t explain the power of art therapy to clients, their family members, your boss, or your partner.
You see gaps in the field but hear, “that’s just the way things are.”
You'd like to "check the literature," but don't have tools or access.
You have a nagging sense that systems of power are keeping your ideas on the outside for a reason.
You believe that learning together and elevating each other is how we build the field and improve our work.
Others see your question-asking as a burden. You know it’s your power.
Students and new graduates building their confidence
Seasoned Professionals and their clinical wisdom
Supervisors and educators training the next generation
Anyone who believes clinicians belong in the research conversation
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That’s not a bad thing, but while you’re doing the work, others are writing the story of what art therapy is, what it should be, and even what it can be.
Funding, jobs, and clinical legitimacy increasingly depend on "evidence" that many art therapists can't articulate in language administrators and funders demand.
Programs get cut when we can't demonstrate outcomes in measurable terms.
Institutional barriers keep practicing art therapists and their real-world ideas from reaching the people who need them.
Academic jargon, pay-walled journals, and old-school hierarchies aren't protecting quality, they're protecting territory.
Your legacy of meaningful change doesn't have to end with your direct client work.
The right skills let you influence treatment approaches, train the next generation, and shape policy.
Practicing art therapists are doing the work but aren’t part of the conversation.
(I know, because I’ve been an art therapist for longer than most grad students have been alive.)
Your wisdom from thousands of client hours? That's data.
Your innovative approaches? That's research waiting to happen.
Your confusion about what research actually says and what it means for you and your clients in the real world? Well… that might be built into the system.
If you don't have the tools to move with the field (or move the field yourself), your wisdom dies when you retire.
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Educational resources to fill the gaps from grad school (they couldn’t teach you everything, and being an effective art therapist comes first)
Scientifically-sound strategies to get your ideas into the world
Art therapists committed to each other's success
A no-hater collaboration
Collaborative learning without jumping through academic hoops
Early access to courses and resources built specifically for your needs
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I've been practicing art therapy for more than 20 years, supervising for nearly that long, and teaching graduate student therapists for over 10 years.
Like you, I was told that research should inform my practice. Unfortunately, no one taught me how.
So I went back to school for a PhD.
Now, I'm on a mission: to help you become a confident, research-informed art therapist without having to go back to school.
Practitioner voices come first, always
Real-world application — tools you can use today
Democratizing access, challenging gatekeeping
Accessible, jargon-free teaching for real humans
Anti-racism and social justice built in, not added on
Community over competition — we rise together
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Art therapy research is sparse, under-disseminated, and not rigorous enough.
They think our work has no evidence.
But our education didn’t give us the tools we need to implement scientific findings, let alone conduct our own research.
Meanwhile, we’re out here trying to prove our worth in an “evidence-based” world.
Academic jargon, pay-walled journals, and old-school hierarchies aren’t protecting quality — they’re protecting territory.
Your clinical experience is evidence.
You’re observing and recording data every single session.
You just need some guidance about what that means and what to do with it.
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