Emmy Lou Glassman, MA, ATR-BC, is a registered and board certified art therapist who, for over twenty years, worked in the Fairfax County Public Schools system. During that time, she served at Centers for emotionally disabled high-school students, integrating her art therapy program within the public school framework, focusing on meeting IEP goals, as well as identifying individual student strengths. Awknowledged professionally by, The Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc., Ms. Glassman has lectured at public schools, colleges and conferences nationwide about the positive role that art therapy can play in the adjustment of students to the world around them.
As a clinical field supervisor for The George Washington
University, Ms. Glassman has provided art therapy graduate students with
first-hand experiences for over eleven years. Since 1988, she has also
maintained a private practice of professional supervision for new and
established art therapists in the field.
Utilizing a wide variety of art media and images, the therapeutic modality of Art Therapy reinforces the importance of the process in creating. Facilitated by a professionally trained art therapist, personal responses and reflections of client art are explored. Individualized sessions reflect and build on various psychological and human development theories. In the process, an outlet is provided for and form is offered to unexpressed feelings. Newly acknowledged or reframed, these feelings may then become reintegrated, bringing balance within.
For further information about Art Therapy, contact The American Art Therapy Association at: http://www.arttherapy.org/
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