Dr. Gwen Sanders, Ph.D., LMFT, ATR-BC, ATCS, has taught at several Universities and is the most recent Director of Clinical Practicum Training for Dominican University Art Therapy Psychology program. She is the recipient of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) annually designated Distinguished Clinician Award in 2019 and Notre Dame de Namur University’s most prestigious student nominated George M. Keller Award for teaching excellence in 2016. Gwen has taken students on 5 service-learning community projects to Central America working with multigenerational survivors of war trauma. Dr. Sanders has a private practice in Oakland California since 1996 providing adults and couples therapy. She has worked with emotionally disturbed youth and their families, been a Military Family Life Consultant to the Army on 4 - thirty to forty five day rotations in Europe, and has been a Clinical Supervisor for twenty five years. She is a HLM and Past President of the Northern California Art Therapy Association (NorCATA), a California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT) Certified Supervisor since 2003 and an Art Therapy Certified Supervisor.
*Corrections for the interview:
-Dominican University (of California) is in San Rafael, NOT is in Santa Rosa.
-Dr. Sanders meant to mention that oil painting is her medium, she loves working on thickly gessoed paper with grease pencil.
This episode was recorded on 1/22/24.
