AATA 2019 Virtual Conference: Morning Sessions

Dr. Daod is a child psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He is an avid refugee mental health activist and researcher.

Jessie Woolhiser Stallings ATR-BC, LIMHP, LPC, LMHC is the clinical director for a large nonprofit serving the Omaha metro area. Jessie also teaches undergraduate art therapy classes for the University of Nebraska Omaha. Jessie was instrumental in the Nebraska Art Therapy Licensure Coalition's successful licensure bid, and as of 2025 Nebraska has an art therapy specific certification/licensure. Jessie is also the author of Special Interests in Art Therapy With Autistic People: A Neurodiversity-Positive Approach to Empower and Engage Participants published in 2022 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers based on her extensive experience working with people with Autism. Jessie is a late identified adult with ADHD and is working to center neurodiversity positive methods in our field.

Rebecca is co-founder of Creative Wellbeing Workshops which provides therapy, supervision, consultation, and training to help individuals and organizations manage stress, reduce burnout, and improve wellbeing. Creative Wellbeing Workshops is a National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) approved continuing education provider in Positive Ethics, Creativity, Art Therapy, and Positive Psychology. CWW has offices in DC and Tucson, AZ. Rebecca is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed, Registered, and Board Certified Art Therapist, and a Certified Trauma Therapist in the Instinctual Trauma Response ®. She completed the 250 hr training as a Certified Psychedelic Therapist with the Integrative Psychiatric Institute (IPI) and Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS/Lykos). Rebecca serves as adjunct faculty at the George Washington University Graduate Art Therapy Program, teaching Positive Psychology and Art Therapy, Art Therapy and Mental Illness, and Supervision.

Rebecca also served as a Wellness Specialist at the internationally renowned Miraval Spa in Arizona and a regularly featured creativity facilitator at the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts for clients affected by life-threatening illnesses and providers working with them. She was a regular trainer for Business Health Services providing professional development and training to private corporations and government agencies in the DMV area and she coordinated the Washington Adventist Hospital Expressive Therapies Department. She was awarded Clinician of the Year by the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) for outstanding contributions to art therapy for adults from diverse cultural backgrounds, her skills as a therapist, and for serving as a model of excellence in service to others. She was instrumental in developing AATA's Institute for Continuing Education and helped the Potomac Art Therapy Association and Smith Center gain NBCC provider status. She served as President of the Arizona Art Therapy Association. Rebecca's focus has been on crisis stabilization and it is through this work both personally and professionally that she has developed an appreciation for the power of the human spirit to prevail even in the darkest moments.

Specialties: trauma resolution, art therapy, psychedelic facilitation and integration, improving well-being, creativity, end-of-life issues, crisis stabilization, stress management, burnout prevention, substance abuse, codependency, affect regulation, group presentation, positive psychology, individual psychotherapy, ethics.

Gioia Chilton, Ph.D., ATR-BC, LCPAT has taught art therapy internationally, and currently conducts art therapy near Washington, DC with active duty military in collaboration with Creative Forces. She is the co-author of the book, Positive Psychology in Art Therapy: Integrating Wellbeing into Theory and Practice, published by Routledge in 2018.

Dr. Mitra Reyhani Dejkameh, LCAT, ATR-BC, is a New York State licensed and board certified creative arts therapist. She has recently launched the Creatives Arts Department at NYS Office of Mental Health at Sagamore Children's Psychiatric Center were she works with children ages 6-17. She also provides monthly art therapy services at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital's adult inpatient behavioral unit, teaches at Hofstra University. She has several years of experience working with individuals of all ages in museum based and clinical settings. Mitra is an Iranian American visual and video artist. She works to increase the scope and diversity of populations served with the ongoing objective of making individual realities more visible in public discourse. Mitra has an MFA in Visual Arts, and MA in Creative Arts Therapy, and a doctorate in Art Therapy.