Dr. Maria Kim, ATR-BC, LMFT received her PhD from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA with a specialization in Expressive Therapies-Art Therapy, and Master’s Degree in Marital and Family Therapy specializing in Clinical Art Therapy from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA. She is a Registered and Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) through the American Art Therapy Association, a clinical member and an Approved Supervisor in-training of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), and a clinical member of the Korean Art Therapy Association.

She is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in the state of California and Illinois. At Antioch University Seattle she serves as Teaching Faculty of Creative Arts Therapy and Couple & Family Therapy Specialization.

Prior to joining the Antioch faculty, she taught at the graduate art therapy program as adjunct faculty at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. In addition, she has extensive experience and knowledge about Korean culture and youths as she worked as a teacher in South Korea. Her work as a clinician started in 2003, working at a youth and family centered community clinic in Los Angeles providing individual, family, group, and parenting for diverse, multicultural clients, including but not limited to immigrants. She served as a clinician and eventually as a senior therapist, supervisor, and representative of the clinic for the meetings with DMH and DCFS in Los Angeles. Currently, her private practice is primarily telemental health, which she started in 2017, working with adults with various life challenges through primarily individual treatment.

She serves as the President of the Illinois Art Therapy Association for 2021 term. In the past, she served as the Conference Chair for the Illinois Art Therapy Association and the Chair for the multicultural and nomination committee for the Southen California Art Therapy Association.
Her interests include research in preventative interventions, including student, teacher, and community wellbeing, self-care, and supervision utilizing the Open Studio Process (OSP). She is also interested in international work and has been providing workshops and seminars in South Korea about art therapy and the OSP through in-person and online sessions. She has currently trained 13 OSP facilitators in South Korea and the US. She currently serves as a reviewer for the journal of the Korean Art Therapy Association. She translated two books into Korean including The Soul’s Pallette(Originally authored by Cathy Malchiodi) and Art is a Way of Knowing(Originally authored by Pat B. Allen).

Amanda Anderson PhD, LMFT is a Core Faculty member of the CFT program. She has been in the field of Marriage and Family Therapy since 2010 and added teaching to her clinical and supervisory work in 2018. Amanda graduated with her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pacific Lutheran University in 2011 and with her doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy from Northcentral University in 2018. She treats teen and adult clients with a variety of presenting problems and specializes in couples therapy; her clinical interests include intimate partner relationships and attachment experiences. She is a self published author of a self-help book for millennials and completed her dissertation on the role of attachment in long-term marriages that end in divorce.

Lastenia is a licensed marriage and family therapist and core faculty member at Antioch University Seattle in the Couple and Family Therapy program. She joined the faculty at Antioch in 2021. She has been practicing individual, couple, and family therapy since 2014. In her independent solo practice in she provides clinical services for individuals and couples with relationship problems, identity challenges, trauma issues to communities of color. She also specializes in work with veteran families.

Lastenia has served as the editor for the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) blog and has made efforts to recruit marginalized clinicians to participate in the blogs to get a well-rounded perspective on therapy. Her research interests involve the reintegration experiences of Black veteran families, as well as looking at intersectional identities and how that impacts reintegration. She completed her dissertation work on the reintegration experiences of Black veterans and their family members. She earned her Doctorate from Northcentral University and her Master’s degree from Mercy College.

Shawntres Parks, PhD, LMFT is a Core Faculty in the CFT Program. Shawntres has a combined 15yrs of clinical and teaching experience. She graduated with her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Azusa Pacific University in 2014 and her Doctorate in Psychology with an emphasis in Transpersonal Psychology in 2020. In June 2020 Shawntres co-founded a virtual group therapy practice called Parks and Powers Psychotherapy. Shawntres’ clinical interests are working with individuals and couples with growth opportunities stemming from lived experiences of racial oppression and sexual violence. Shawntres has diverse clinical experience including work in community-based mental health, school-based, hospital, forensic, and private practice settings. Shawntres’ research interests are Women of Colors’ posttraumatic growth experiences following lived encounters with sexual violence, code-shifting, and racial oppression. Shawntres’ dissertation research investigated the posttraumatic growth journeys of Black women sexual violence victim/survivors using qualitative methods.

Julia received their PhD in Philosophy at Michigan State University, writing her dissertation on palliative and remembrance ethics for the dead and the dying of climate change. She envisions her research taking shape where the boundaries between feminist, political, and environmental philosophy grow pleasantly and productively murky. Before obtaining their MA in Philosophy from the University of Colorado, Julia spent a number of years in Portland, OR working at an international salmon conservation organization and as a collective manager and produce expert at a community owned grocery store. She received her BA in Philosophy and Russian Studies from William Smith College.

Julia has authored publications in environmental ethics, ecocriticism, bioethics, technology studies, mobilities studies, and animal ethics. During her postdoctoral fellowship in the Philosophy Department at Queen’s University, Julia explored the synthesis, tensions, and incommensurabilities of decolonial and interspecies justice. This research finds material, emotional, and spiritual expression on their family farm where Julia lives and works on unceded Wappinger territory. In addition to brush-hogging, berry picking, and chasing down cows, her lived philosophical practice on the Farm involves further developing death ethics as part of a holistic intergenerational politics on and for the lands they call home.