TATA Members
TATA Board
President: Carrie May Ezell
Vice President: Megan Castronova
Co-Vice President: Heather Stanley
Secretary: Janet Guptill
Treasurer: Pam Childs
Student Liason: Karen Peacock
Ashley M. BrandonB.A. in Art Therapy
Chattanooga, TN
423-883-5278
oldiechic@hotmail.com
Ashley has been working as a Classroom Paraprofessional at the Siskin Children's Institute in downtown Chattanooga since August 2006 and is now also a Lead Extended Care Paraprofessional for the after school program. In collaboration with the teachers she has worked alongside, Ashley has been able to instill a lot of art activity into the routine of the room with the children. She has been working with children who have Autism, Down's Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Disabilities, Developmental Delay, and those who are blind, along with ones who are typically developing.
Sidonna BrightLCSW, RPT, LPC, CGP
Chattanooga, TN
423-596-0365
sidonnabright@yahoo.com
Sidonna Bright is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Registered Play Therapist, Certified Group Psychotherapist, Clinical Counselor in Domestic Violence, and Clinical Counselor in Forensic Therapy with experience in the court system, Hamilton County jail system and Tennessee State Penitentiary. Sidonna has specialized training in mediation, child abuse treatment and court proceedings as well as work over many years with psychiatrists.
Sidonna is a graduate of UTC where she interned in the Department of Youth Development†and at the Partnership for Families and Children with Youth Services. Currently, she practices as a solo outpatient practitioner and offers consultations on therapy with children and their families.
Sidonna has current goals of continuing her personal artwork, improving her skills with the arts and play therapy communities and to provide healing experiences for families, children and individuals outside the traditional therapeutic setting.
Cam BuschM.Ed., RN, PMHCNS-BC, ATR-BC, LPAT
Chattanooga, TN
423-265-3056
cambusch@comcast.net
Practice Concentration:
Art Therapy Consults and Studio
Services Offered:
Supervision, Consultations, Caring for Caregiver Workshops, Arts in Healthcare Curator
Cam is an artist/photographer, board certified, licensed and registered art therapist and psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist as well as a national arts in healthcare consultant. She is a Founding member and President Emeritus of TATA and received the organization's first Distinguished Service Award and Honorary Life Membership Award. She has served on a variety of professional boards including the American Art Therapy Association, the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, Memorial Healthcare System Foundation, Association for Visual Artists and the AIM Center. She is the owner of Art Therapy Consults and Studio in Chattanooga and has been in private practice for 20 years serving clients with life adjustment challenges. Cam is a mentor and supervisor for rising art therapists and arts in healthcare practitioners.
Janie Giles Carp MS, ATR-BC
Jackson, TN
731-668-3888 x137
janie.giles.carp@starcenter.tn.org
Website:
www.starcenter.tn.org
Practice Concentration:
Children and adults with disabilities including autism, individuals with Alzheimer's disease and dementia
Janie works atThe STAR Center
www.starcenter.tn.org in Jackson, Tennessee as an art therapist and
manager of art and music therapies. Janie does art therapy with
individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities, working
mostly with adults. Primarily an art-as-therapy model is followed, and
developmental, rehabilitative, and psycho-educational theories practiced
in a community setting with individuals with a variety of levels of
disabilities, from mild to severe. Janie also has an enduring interest
in the use of art therapy with individuals with Alzheimer's and dementia.
Megan Castronova MA in Art Therapy, BA Special Education
Chattanooga, TN
423-243-7308
megan_castronova@hotmail.com
Megan has 19 years of experience working with individuals of all abilities. She is a licensed special education teacher and has taught for several years. Megan has art therapy experience in America as well as internationally. She has worked in South Africa, Singapore and all across Australia. Megan was honored with teacher of the year in 2008. She has taken a new position with a local private school where she will be combining her love of teaching, her passion for art therapy and connection with nature on the beautiful 211 acre campus working with students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Tarri DriverMEd
Murfreesboro, TN
615-594-6659
tarri.driver@gmail.com
Tarri currently works with 5-8 graders who have been placed in special education services due to behavioral challenges and/or learning challenges throughout several Nashville Metro Schools. Tarri earned her B.F.A. in 2004 from Middle Tennessee State University and her Masters in Education from the University of Louisville in 2006. Tarriís graduate work focused on expressive therapies, especially art therapy. She is a member of the American Art Therapy Association and actively participates in art shows in middle Tennessee and surrounding areas.
Connie Livingston-Dunn ATR-BC, ACET, CHT, CPAT
Springville, TN
731-642-4199
yogart@bellsouth.net
http://rainbowartscenter.com
Practice Concentration:
Mental illness, sexual abuse.
Services Offered:
Supervision, consultation.
Connie is a practicing artist and a Board Certified Art Therapist who has practiced art therapy since1966. She is semi-retired and is currently an adjunct professor at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville and at Murray State University and Hopkinsville Community College in Hopkinsville, KY. She has been a consultant and in private practice, was Director of Art Therapy Internship program at Mt. Mary College in Milwaukee in 1984 and 1985, and taught art therapy at the Oasis Center in Chicago. She has also worked in various settings with a variety of people of all ages, including a community counseling center, a state institution for persons with developmental delays and/or mental illness, a non-profit community center for persons who were sexual assaulted, and at a spiritual recovery center.
Carrie May EzellMA in Art Therapy
Chattanooga, TN
423-653-8116
carriegaylemay@hotmail.com
Carrie has done art therapy work in a wide variety of settings including community counseling center, drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, elderly day care center, physical rehabilitation hospital, adult psychiatric hospital, day center for mentally ill adults, oncology units and group homes for sexually abused teenagers. In late 2007 Carrie created a business, ‘Expressive Art Therapy Consulting’ providing services for those in the Chattanooga area.
Kathryn Flowers
Memphis, TN
901-327-1125
Sarah Hamil LCSW, RPT-S, ATR-BC
Jackson, TN
731-225-5933
shamil@charter.net
Practice Concentration:
Children and families
Services Offered:
Supervision, consultation, workshop and conference presenter
Sarah has been working as an art therapist since 1999. During this time she has worked with individuals across the lifespan (the youngest a 3 year old and the oldest a 90 year old). This work has been primarily focused on mental health issues and developing an integrated plan for optimal functioning for the individual or family. She has worked in the school system as well as the mental health system using art therapy to assess and evaluate the needs of children and adults with mental illness. Furthermore she has used art therapy to assist high functioning individuals to promote personal growth and professional development.
She provides supervision for art therapists working with Individuals and Families impacted by Alzheimer's, as well as those art therapists addressing the needs of families who have experienced domestic violence. Sarah currently is a full-time instructor for the Social Work Graduate Program for The University of Tennessee, Memphis Campus.
Sarah has written a book entitled "My Feeling Better Workbook; Help for Kids Who are Sad or Depressed".
Lisa IncardonaCMSW
Memphis, TN
901-751-1751 901-486-8192
lincardona@bellsouth.net
Practice Concentration:
Domestic violence groups, child abuse, Spanish speaking
Services Offered:
Lisa is fluent in Spanish and can offer individual or group counseling that can service clients who speak little or no English. At the Exchange Club Family Center as their bilingual therapist, she provides art therapy for individual counseling of Latino clients and facilitates a support group that uses English and Spanish along with the art interventions. She can provide contract work for any setting as well as give workshops in using mandalas as a therapeutic intervention.
Lisa has worked mostly with victims of domestic violence and child abuse for non-profit community health agencies and presently works part-time at the Exchange Club Family Center. She has experience in working with adult day care centers both as an art therapist and a social worker. In 2007, at the West Clinic of Memphis, she exhibited her mandala drawings along with the mandala work of breast cancer survivors that the clients created during group sessions that Lisa facilitated. She has given seminars on mandala work for mental health professionals who want to use creative expressions in their therapeutic practice, including the Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare.
Zelena King
Rogersville, TN
423-293-0333
cookwithzk@charter.net
Zelena has a degree in Fine Arts from both Walters State and Tusculum College. She currently attends Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College pursuing her MAAT. Zelena has traveled extensively and is committed to her family. Her son is diagnosed with Touretteís Syndrome. She is interested in new and exciting ways to communicate with the challenged and has experience with clients who have Alzheimer's disease as well as the mentally disabled. Zelena says, ìWe are all challenged every day one way or another its how we remain standing that counts. Artists and therapists have shown that there are better ways to do that... together.
Blythe MayfieldMA in Art Therapy
Chattanooga, TN
423-505-3184
thaloblue26@aol.com
Throughout receiving her Bachelor of Art Therapy degree in Indianapolis and Master of Art Therapy degree in Melbourne (AU), Blythe worked in a variety of internship/placement settings including aged care facilities, public school system, community hospital/behavioral care services, mother and baby inpatient unit, maternal and child health outreach services, specialist school for children who have special needs including nonspecific learning disabilities, global delay, and autism, and informal play groups for single parents, indigenous, and refugee families.
Dora MartinMAAT
Watertown, TN
615-812-0774
artsyast@yahoo.com
Dora is a native of Lebanon, TN and received her BA from Cumberland University. She received her MA at the University of Louisville. She has worked with children in residential facility, adults diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness, as well as geriatrics and those diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia.
Melissa MeadeGraduate Student, Mental Health Counseling, Dance/Movement Therapy
Chattanooga, TN
423-255-6466
mdmeade1@hotmail.com
Melissa is a graduate student in mental health counseling at Capella University and in dance/movement therapy at the Pratt Institute. Melissa started down this path because of a deep desire to help others survive utilizing a modality that has helped her heal personally. Dance and movement provide an outlet and a means of expression that enables an individual to heal, release negative energy and integrate all three parts of a person, mind, body and spirit.
Through internship placements, Melissa has worked with cancer patients, grieving children, and clients with eating disorders. Melissa expects to be licensed as a professional counselor and registered as a dance/movement therapist. She will complete her education in April 2010.
Jas MilamMAAT intern
Chattanooga, TN
423-322-2514
jas@jasmilam.com
www.jasmilam.com
Jas Milam graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 with a degree in Studio Art and Early Childhood Development. She has worked with children and adults teaching art in a wide range of settings since then. Jas has designed art programs for The Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, worked within the Hamilton County School System and assisted with children’s groups at Another Way. Her experiences with special populations of children and adults include work at Orange Grove, Hosanna House, Siskin Children’s Institute, At-Risk Youth, The Community Kitchen and The Hearing-Impaired Classroom at White Oak Elementary School. She has over 15 years of experience in addiction and recovery as well as a background in Holotropic Breathwork, Jungian psychology and both individual and group therapy models. Jas is currently working on a masters degree in Art Therapy and Spirituality at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.
Karen Peacock
Memphis, TN
901-729-9099
karenvpeacock@hotmail.com
Karen received her Masterís Degree in Art Therapy in 2008 from Pratt Institute and is serving as the TATA Student Liaison for 2008-09. She is currently engaged in an art therapy collaboration with the Brooks Museum of Art and the Veteransí Administration in Memphis.
Karen has worked at the Hope and Healing Center, Alzheimerís Day Services, and HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital, and her previous collaboration with the Brooks Museum resulted in a 2007 exhibition of art created by Alzheimerís patients. Karen is interested in continuing to integrate art therapy into new venues such as museums, and she hopes to ultimately incorporate animal-assisted therapy with art therapy.
Heather StanleyATR-BC
Chattanooga, TN
423-413-3133
heatherstanley@gmail.com
Practice Concentration:
Children, individual, family, substance abuse
Services Offered:
Supervision, internship
Heather Stanley currently works in the North Georgia school system providing contracted art therapy sessions for students that are emotionally at risk or that are physically at risk. She also provides group sessions for school grades 3-12 and support group sessions for Y-Me Breast Cancer Center of Chattanooga
Alaina Kaszupski
Frances McDonald
Sharilene Troost