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The Michigan Association of Art Therapy (MAAT) is a non-profit organization
ratified in 1977 by the state of Michigan. MAAT works with the American Art
Therapy Association (AATA) to provide educational opportunities in art therapy,
to promote public awareness of the field of art therapy and the therapeutic use
of art by publicizing research and maintaining standards of clinical practice
and training.
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MAAT Board of Directors
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Genevieve Willson MA, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC
Genevieve Wilson is MAAT's Legislative Chair.
Native Michigander, Genevieve received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her Masters in Art Therapy from The University of Illinois of Chicago. For the following 14 years she worked the first 5 with the chronic mentally ill, including survivors of severe trauma at a large art therapy studio that employed 4 art therapists and had numerous art therapy interns from local Universities. Briefly, she was the Director of Therapeutic Activities at a LTC in Oak Park, IL and then became the adolescent and adult Licensed Clinical Art Therapist for rape, incest and sexual assault survivors in Gurnee, IL. Tired of commuting, Genevieve then became the Licensed Clinician / Art Therapist for the adolescent female floor of Illinois' largest emergency shelter for DCFS children. When this moved, she worked for the same agency, helping to market, promote and create an outpatient mental health facility in Des Plaines, IL. There she worked as an art therapist until she took a spiritual pilgrimage to Tibet. Genevieve then moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn and ran an art therapy studio for the chronic mentally ill, veterans with PTSD, and gender-identity D.O. clients at a SRO in New York. Missing her family, nature and Michigan, Genevieve returned 3 years ago, to design an art therapy/mindfulness based program for a RTC in Kalamazoo. This July, Genevieve fulfilled her dream and has opened a private practice in downtown Kalamazoo. Having spent much time taking extra courses at the C.G. Jung Center while living in Chicago, Genevieve works with adolescents and adults in a beautiful art studio (with a working fireplace!) offering depth-psychology oriented art therapy. She also specializes in treating all forms of trauma and it's symptoms. She is also a first-responder with two American NGO's, providing PTSD alleviation and education to survivors of natural disasters and war. She volunteered for FEMA and Harris Co. Psychiatric Triage at the Astrodome in Houston after Katrina. She intends to be going to Haiti this Spring, and possibly Uganda, to Nyaka AIDS Orphans School to offer art therapy as treatment for children and adolescents traumatized by unspeakable losses. Having always been a Licensed Clinician, Genevieve is ecstatic to be Chair of Legislation for MAAT. With the collaboration of many MAAT members she intends to make Licensure available to all Michigan Art Therapists!
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Karen Schurgin
MAAT Membership Chair 2012-2014
MAAT Ethics Chair 2012-2014
email: kschurgin@comcast.net
phone: 248-855-5752
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Marla Schram-Wolfe MEd, ATR, CAC-1
Marla Schram-Wolfe is Treasurer of MAAT.
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Theresa Quinn ATR, LMFT
Theresa Quinn is President of MAAT.
Besides being a Registered Art Therapist, Theresa is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who was educated at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Theresa is currently the contract art therapist-teacher in the special education school for inpatient children at Hawthorn Center psychiatric hospital in Northville. Theresa also has an all-ages private practice, Quinn Art Therapy, located in Southfield, that is especially dedicated to family art therapy. Theresa would like to see that all practice settings, particularly clinical art therapy in the outpatient setting, be promoted to consumers and health providers and agencies in Michigan. She is committed to the belief that art therapists deserve recognition by and parity with other mental health professionals. This will be Theresa's second and final year as President of the MAAT Board, and she is looking forward to what the year holds in store.
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Genevieve Willson ATR-BC, LCPC, LPC
MAAT Legislative Chair 2012-2014
email: genevieve70@mac.com
phone: (269)270-2322
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Mike Collins ATR-BC
MAAT Board Secretary 2012-2014
email: mhc_atlanta@yahoo.com
phone: (770)365-7118
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Barbra Allen ATR-BC
MAAT Education Chair 2012-2014
email: barbraallen@yahoo.com
phone: (516)810-8239
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