[Self-Study] Asian/Asian American Art Therapists: Embodying the Contexts

Art therapist and Licensed Clinical Social worker in private practice and adjunct faculty at George Washington University.

Dr. Jayashree George has backgrounds in art and art history (BA, MA) from India, and art therapy (MA) and marriage and family therapy (MS) from the US. She has a doctorate (DA) in art therapy from New York University. She is currently Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Her research interests over the past decade or so have been centered in issues of diversity, equity and inclusion in clinical practice. Her current art practice explores the plight of elephants as they are blamed for their wildness and oppressed in multiple ways.

Tsz Yan Winnie Wong, MAATC, ATR-BC, LPC, is a Registered and Board-Certified Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, an EMDR-trained clinician, supervisor, educator, researcher, and artist. Winnie's research centers on cultural identities and differences in art therapy practice. Her art practice examines collective recovery and is presented through participatory art and site-specific installations, with her recent work exploring emigration and home through papermaking. With over fourteen years of diverse experience spanning institutions and communities in Singapore, India, Hong Kong, and the USA, Winnie currently practices at YWCA Metropolitan Chicago. There, she applies anti-oppressive frameworks rooted in critical feminisms and relational-cultural theory, offering trauma-informed art therapy to survivors of sexual violence across all age groups. In addition to providing professional training on crisis intervention, Winnie is an active participant in both national and international art therapy discourses, contributes as a reviewer for the American Art Therapy Association conference proposals, and serves on the Cook County human trafficking task force subcommittee. Winnie was also the founder of Dialogue in Art, an open community studio in Hong Kong dedicated to serving underserved youth.

Dr. Joyce Yip Green is committed to empowering individuals, families and communities through her work as a clinical art therapist, licensed marriage and family therapist, and international psychologist. She has specialized training as an infant and early childhood mental health specialist and has developed a picture card interview methodology as part of her research on cultural parenting practices in Rwanda. She is a professor and research advisor in the Department of Marital and Family Therapy with Specialization in Art Therapy at Loyola Marymount University. She has a private practice in Los Angeles, CA.