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Madeline Rugh
Visiting AssociAte Professor
M.A., University of Michigan Ann Arbor; B.F.A.,
Columbus College of Art and Design; Ph.D., University
of Oklahoma; specializing in providing healing art
experiences to disabled children and older adults and
developing programming at the interface of art, ecology
and spirituality; uses the arts to serve as the container
and primary vehicle for expressing synthesized
knowledge and for addressing the health and healing
needs of the individual or group.
Dina Schapiro
Adjunct instructor
Jean Seibel
Visiting instructor
Linda Siegel
director of grAduAte Art therAPy ProgrAM;
AssistAnt Professor
Certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy,
Brooklyn Institute for Psychotherapy and Psycho-
analysis; Certificate in Parent Infant Psychotherapy,
Ani Bergaman Parent Infant Training Program in Parent
Infant Psy; previous director of Art and Creative Therapy
Program at New Directions, out-patient substance
abuse program; co-founder, Park Slope Counseling
Center since 1990; exhibiting artist.
Laurel Thompson
Professor
M.P.S., Pratt Institute; Ph.D., Union Institute & University;
board member, American Dance Therapy Association,
chair of Education, Research & Practice; Education
Committee, American Art Therapy Association; board
member, USA Body Psychotherapy Association;
editorial board for Arts in Psychotherapy, Art Therapy:
The American Journal of Art Therapy, and Body,
Movement and Psychotherapy; numerous publications
and extensive presentations; credentialed in dance
movement and art therapy, focusing trainer; private
practice specializing in eating disorders, dissociative
disorders, and trauma.
Jennifer Frank Tantia
Visiting instructor
M.S., Pratt Institute; Ph.D. candidate, The Chicago
School for Professional Psychology; advanced training
in somatic experiencing; past PR chair, New York
Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies; past program
director, New York State Chapter, ADTA; current
research committee, United States Body Association
for Body Psychotherapy; published in the U.S.A. Body
Psychotherapy Journal and several ADTA national and
state chapter newsletters; national and international
conference presenter; private practice: leading
authentic movement groups and specializing in trauma
and somatic disorders; areas of research interest:
embodied epistemology and dance/movement therapy
and somatic psychology pedagogy.Susan Tortora
Visiting AssistAnt ProfessorElissa White
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
Charter member and past president of American
Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) and other board
positions since l964. Former co-editor and editorial
board member of the American Journal of Dance
Therapy. Co-founder of the Dance Therapy Program at
Hunter College, CUNY; author, articles on dance therapy
and Lab analysis, extensive teaching and presenter of
Marian Chace theory and practice; ADTR, CMA, LCAT.Joan Wittig
director of grAduAte dAnce/MoVeMent
therAPy ProgrAM; AssociAte Professor
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.S., Hunter
College, City University of New; ADTR, LCAT. Wittig
worked for New York City Health and Hospitals
Corporation for 16 years, including seven years as
director of the Creative Arts Therapy Department
at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center.
She teaches and presents widely, serves on the
Approval Committee for the American Dance Therapy
Association, is a member of the New York State Board
for Mental Health Professionals, and has a private
practice in Manhattan.Robert Wolf
Visiting AssistAnt ProfessorEva Teirstein Young
Visiting instructor
M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago; M.P.S.
Creative Arts Therapy, Pratt Institute; graduate, The
William Alanson White Institute’s Child and Adolescent
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program; has worked
with children, adolescents, and families at the
New York Foundling Hospital and Bellevue Hospital;
creative arts therapy consultant to the Young
Dancemakers Company and has a private practice
in NYC; ATR-BC, LCAT.