Amy Morrison, PhD

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Dr. Amy Morrison is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Registered, Board-Certified Art Therapist. She earned her doctorate in Expressive Therapies from Lesley University and has taught in higher education for over 20 years. She is currently a Founder and Co-Director of the Art Therapy Concentration in the Mental Health Counseling Program at Antioch University New England. She maintains a studio practice in drawing, collage, and fiber arts.

Dr. Morrison’s research and clinical interests include children’s art-making for health and expression, empowerment, creativity, developmental trauma, counselor self-care, and ethics. Her art therapy and counseling practice has focused on contemplative and attachment psychology, intersubjectivity, parenting, and life transitions during adulthood.

She is an advocate for experiential, transformative learning, and social justice pedagogy and has presented nationally and internationally on these topics. Dr. Morrison is committed to anti-racist practices; this is exhibited through program and curriculum development and mindful interpersonal interactions.

Co-Director

Art Therapy Concentration

Associate Professor

Clinical Mental Health Counseling

  • PhD, Lesley University
  • MA, Lesley University

Amy’s research interests include children’s art making for health and expression, empowerment, creativity, children’s rights, healthy development for girls and boys, and ethics. Amy has a particular clinical interest in attachment psychology, wellness and parenting, and life transitions during adulthood. Amy provides professional supervision for art therapists and clinicians working toward licensure for mental health counseling.

  • “Exploring Self-Care Practices for Counselor Educators Teaching in Online and Hybrid Programs.” Counselor Education Distance Learning Conference (CEDL), Palo Alto University, February 2022
  • “Aesthetics & Anti-Oppression for Online Education”. IEATA International Expressive Arts Therapy Association 14th Annual Conference, January, 2022
  • “Art Therapy Education: Considerations for Relational & Anti-Oppressive Approaches & Practice.” Canadian Art Therapy Association 2021 Virtual Conference Emergence: Cultivating Hope, Creating Change, November 2021, Online.
  • “What is Mindfulness and How to Begin a Practice” Antioch University, Department of Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Lunch & Learn Series, April 2021
  • “A Social Justice Pedagogy Committee: Our Journey Towards Decolonization and Anti-Racism Learning.” The Association for Humanistic Counseling [Conference], June 2021
  • ACA, American Counseling Association
  • ACC, Association for Creativity in Counseling
  • AATA American Art Therapy Association
  • IEATA International Expressive Arts Therapy Association
  • IVLA International Visual Literacy Association
  • Foundational Skills
  • History & Theory of Art Therapy
  • Developmental & Trauma-Informed Art Therapy
  • Creative Approaches to Trauma-Informed Practice
  • Counseling Approaches to Trauma, Grief & Loss
  • Human Growth & Development
  • Crisis Counseling Interventions
  • Career Counseling
  • Social & Cultural Diversity
  • Counseling Theories
  • Professional Orientation and Ethics
  • Group Counseling
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