Brief History of Expressive Arts Therapy

at Lesley College Graduate School in Boston, now Lesley University. It emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of art therapy and incorporates diverse artistic concepts, distinguishing it from single-media art therapy.

founded the Tamalpa Institute, a dance-based expressive arts education and therapy center.

brought expressive arts therapy training to Europe and North America, promoting sensory and interactive expressive arts work. Philip Speiser and Jack Weller also developed expressive arts programs at the Scandinavian Institute for Expressive Arts in Sweden and John F. Kennedy University in California, respectively.

Combining the strengths of her father, Carl Rogers’s, Person-centered therapy and the expressive arts, she founded the Person-centered Expressive Arts (PCEA) model and established the Person-centered Expressive Therapy Institute (PCETI).

opens an expressive arts training academy in California.

and in 1996, he developed a different master’s program in expressive arts therapy.

discussed formally changing the name of expressive therapy to expressive arts therapy.

established the Integrated School of Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS) in Canada.

founded the European Graduate School (EGS) in Switzerland

establish the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA).

offered an expressive arts therapy course at Appalachian State University in the mid-1980s, which developed into a master’s program in community counseling with major in expressive arts therapy in 1999 (McNiff, 2009).