Category: Expressive Arts Therapy

When I was a child, my grandmother collected calendars of Inuit art. The images were eye catching to me given their often stark, curved lines and minimalist presentation: quite different from the images I was accustomed to seeing my grandmother paint, which included primarily naturalistic prairie scenes and portraits.

Watch the second video in our YouTube Conversations Series featuring faculty and students.

New this summer 2021 register for the fully Indigenized Dual Diploma in Art Therapy and Expressive Arts. Other available programs include the Indigenized Art Therapy Diploma, Expressive Arts Therapy Diploma, and Expressive Arts Certificate.

Watch the first video in our YouTube Conversations Series featuring faculty and students.

New this summer 2021 register for the fully Indigenized Dual Diploma in Art Therapy and Expressive Arts. Other available programs include the Indigenized Art Therapy Diploma, Expressive Arts Therapy Diploma, and Expressive Arts Certificate.

We are excited to launch our new Online Wellness Centre which provides online groups, individual art therapy, and expressive arts sessions for healing and wellness. Student therapists are available to help you amplify your creativity and self-awareness, build self-esteem, relax, and come into the present moment through the arts.

It is a great honour and privilege to introduce Jungian Psychologist and Expressive Arts Therapist Dr. Kate Donohue, via video!
Watch the video below to meet Dr. Kate Donohue as she reflects on her life, work and connection to the Expressive Arts, Jungian psychology, and global Indigenous perspectives on the arts.

Mark your calendars! The Expressive Arts Certificate begins online in less than a month (November 28).
In anticipation, meet three of our highly regarded Expressive Arts Personal & Professional Practice instructors for the upcoming cohort, via video!

Carmen Richardson

MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT

Carmen is a Registered Clinical Social Worker, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and Registered Canadian Art Therapist in private practice. She is the founder and director of the Prairie Institute of Expressive Arts Therapy (PIEAT).

Carmen Richardson

MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT

Carmen is a Registered Clinical Social Worker, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and Registered Canadian Art Therapist in private practice. She is the founder and director of the Prairie Institute of Expressive Arts Therapy (PIEAT).

Carmen Richardson
MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT
Carmen is a Registered Clinical Social Worker, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and Registered Canadian Art Therapist in private practice. She is the founder and director of the Prairie Institute of Expressive Arts Therapy (PIEAT).

Fyre Jean Graveline (left) with WHEAT students and Lana Whiskeyjack (right) at Saskatchewan

summer launch, July 2019

In Ancestral times All Beings were communicated with and included as part of the Council of Collective Wisdom, giving Life and Voice to the Elemental Powers, the Air, the Fire, the Water, and the Earth, as well as to All Our Relations, the winged, the crawlers, the swimmers, the four-legged, the stone people, the tree nations, and all ones.