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Josephine Abbenante

Adjunct AssistAnt Professor

B.A. Rice University; M.A. University of Louisville; has

taught and practiced art therapy for the past 25 years;

added the practice of sandplay to her work 10 years

ago; has presented nationally and internationally on

topics including archetypal art therapy, transition,

art therapy with deaf culture, art therapy and feminist

theory, sandplay and art therapy, work across

cultures, and the language of aesthetics and metaphor.

ATR-BC, LPAT.

Claudia Bader

Visiting instructor

M.P.S., Pratt Institute, ATR-BC, NCPsyA, licensed creative

arts therapist, licensed psychoanalyst; executive

director emerita, Institute for Expressive Analysis (

2002–2008); board member 1993–2002, IEA; courses:

Art Diagnosis, Symbolism in Art Therapy, Alchemy,

Symbolism and Creativity, Dream Analysis, Mandala;

MARI certification, Projective Drawing Institute

Certification; private practice, Manhattan.

Donna Bassin

Visiting AssociAte Professor

M.P.S. Art Therapy, Pratt Institute, Ph.D. Clinical

Psychology, The Union Institute and University; art

therapist, licensed clinical psychologist, and I.P.A

certified psychoanalyst; member and faculty at IPTAR,

and has a full-time private practice in New York

City; author of published books, book reviews, and

journal articles in the areas of gender, motherhood,

mourning, and memorials; has exhibited her fine art

photography in museums and galleries, and screened

her latest full-length documentary, Leave No Soldier,

at many professional conferences and international

film festivals. She is a board member of Psychoanalysis

for Social Responsibility, and a vocal advocate for

increased community support for the care of our

returning soldiers.

Beate Becker

Adjunct AssociAte Professor

B.A., Smith College; M.A., Columbia University

(Teacher’s College); M.S., Hunter College; certified

psychoanalyst, New York Center for Psychoanalytic

Training; certified movement analyst, Laban/Bartenieff

Institute for Movement Studies; advanced training in

Somatic Experiencing. Private practice, Manhattan

and Westchester; staff, Institute for Contemporary

Psychoanalysis; co-editor, American Journal of

Dance Therapy; presenter at national professional

conferences; published in American Journal of Dance

Therapy, American Dance Teacher, and A Moving

Journal; former choreographer, performer lighting

designer. ADTR, CMA, LCAT, LP, LMHC.

Joachim Boenig

Adjunct AssistAnt Professor

Corinna Brown

Visiting instructor

B.A.; M.A., State University of New York at Albany; M.S.,

Hunter College City University of New York; Certified

Alcoholism Counselor; Certificate in Neo-Reichian

Psychotherapy; current vice president and former

editor of the New York State Chapter of the American

Dance Therapy Association newsletter; ADTA Research

Subcommittee; experience in addictions, adults with

multiple sclerosis, adult inpatient and outpatient

psychiatry, geriatrics and men with AIDS/HIV; private

practice; ADTR, CASAC, LCAT.

Kimberly Bush

Adjunct AssistAnt Professor

B.A., Sarah Lawrence Coll; M.F.A., Parsons the New

School of Design; Adv. Cert., Pratt Institute; Adv.

Cert., Westchester Institute for Psychoanalysis and

Psychotherapy; has been working creatively with

children, teachers, and parents for over 20 years. She

is a visual artist, a NYS licensed Creative Arts Therapist,

and Certified Child Life Specialist. In addition, she is

completing her training as psychoanalytic candidate at

the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychotherapy

and Psychoanalysis.

Barbara Cooper

Adjunct AssociAte Professor

M.P.S. Creative Arts Therapy, Pratt Institute; has taught

in the program for the past 20 years; co-founder and

co-director of SuperKids, a therapeutic program for

children and teens with social skills challenges and

disabilities; co-author of two workbooks for children

and teens with Asperger’s Syndrome; executive

consultant for http://www.socialskillscentral.com, and travels

throughout the country training teachers and therapists

who work with students on the autism spectrum in

using the creative arts to help these students process

their experience and learn the skills that will help them

become independent and successful in their lives. 

ATR-BC, LMHC.

Creative Arts Therapy Faculty