his is a panel of lived-experience therapists and coaches who have used art for their own recovery and for their clients' recovery. This interactive panel will discuss the healing power of art and decolonize traditional art spaces by presenting tactile, interactive artworks for participants to touch and engage with.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify and articulate at least two specific ways that lived experience therapists and coaches use art processes to support emotional regulation, trauma integration, and recovery in clinical and community contexts.

2. Describe how decolonizing frameworks transform traditional art therapy spaces by examining approaches that center tactile engagement, community participation, and non-Western healing traditions.

3. Design one example of an interactive or sensory-based art intervention that they can implement in their clinical or coaching practice to promote embodied expression and client engagement.

Speakers

Wednesdae Reim Ifrach REAT ATR-BC ATCS LPC NCC CLAT RMT (they/them)
Professor, Art Therapist, Moravian University & Rainbow Recovery

Eliran Ifrach ATR-BC, LPC (he/they)
Art Therapist, Rainbow Recovery

Kevin Green (they.them)
Peer Advocate