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Support the podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fat-moon/subscribe FAT Moon is a platform for creative therapists to connect and learn from one another through conversations with practitioners from around the globe. It is an independent, self-funded podcast created and run solely by me. Subscriber support helps sustain the care and labour involved in making each episode. Listening to FAT Moon is recognised as CPD by ANZACATA.

Episodes

  1. Sarah Tucker - Art Therapist (Aus)

    JAN 9

    Sarah Tucker - Art Therapist (Aus)

    Sarah Tucker has extensive experience as a prison Art Therapy facilitator and aims to foster rehabilitation, healing, reconciliation, and recidivism prevention among offenders and in society.  Sarahs unique perspective stems from 25 years of involvement in the arts and tattooing, offering her profound insights into marginalised and underground communities.  Sarah has consulted and advised Correctional Services, employing various creative therapeutic interventions, particularly with prisoners. Her expertise also extends to facilitating children's group therapy art workshops, individual therapy sessions, and trauma-informed creative therapy practices.  Sarah also holds multiple undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in criminology, neuroscience and arts psychotherapy. sarah.tucker@unsw.edu.au https://www.unsw.edu.au/hdr/sarah-tucker

    43 min
  2. Dr. Jessica Collier - Art Psychotherapist (UK)

    10/15/2025

    Dr. Jessica Collier - Art Psychotherapist (UK)

    Dr Jessica Collier (she/her) has practiced as an NHS art psychotherapist with violent offenders in prisons, secure hospitals and a modified forensic therapeutic community. She currently leads a team developing arts psychotherapies services for women and men in prison. Jessica is co-convenor of the Forensic Arts Therapies Advisory Group, and formerly a council member of the British Association of Art Therapists and the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapists. Jessica has presented her work at conferences nationally and internationally. She lectures on postgraduate arts psychotherapy and forensic psychotherapy programmes and and is a visiting fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was the inaugural co-editor in chief of the International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy and has published widely including co-editing the book Intersectionality and Art Psychotherapies. Jessica's PhD considered the interdisciplinary dialogue between feminist criminology and art psychotherapy as a means of understanding gendered identities in prison and she remains passionate about working with criminalised women. Jessica also has a private practice providing clinical supervision and reflective practice to psychological professionals and teams working with complex forensic patients across prisons, secure hospitals and community settings. In addition, Jessica has an interest in Social Dreaming and has trained with the Social Dreaming International Network. https://uk.jkp.com/products/intersectionality-in-the-arts-psychotherapies

    58 min
  3. Judy Rubin - Art Therapist (USA)

    07/21/2024

    Judy Rubin - Art Therapist (USA)

    Judith A. Rubin, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM is a licensed psychologist, child and adult psychoanalyst, and board-certified art therapist. A past President and Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, she has written six books and created thirteen films. For three years in the sixties she was the Art Lady on the PBS children’s program, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” Now retired from clinical practice and regular teaching, she served for forty years on the faculties of the Psychiatry Department at the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. She also presented and taught at many universities and conferences in the U.S. and abroad. President and co-founder of Expressive Media, she launched an online Training Film Library in the expressive therapies. In 2024, the film library was acquired by Psychotherapy.net, a video streaming platform serving a range of mental health professionals. Judy is currently engaged in two unfinished EMI projects: an International Film Festival on the Arts in Healing and a film provisionally entitled “The Many Faces of the Creative Arts Therapies,” in process of being created. expressivemedia.org Arts In Healing International Film Festival

    1h 19m
  4. Kate Dempsey - CEO of ANZACATA (Australia)

    04/14/2024

    Kate Dempsey - CEO of ANZACATA (Australia)

    Moon Mail - Monthly Newsletter Collective Calm: well-being sessions (May) Kate Dempsey is the CEO of ANZACATA. She has been in the position for just on 5 years. The work has grown from 2 days a week to 4 days a week in that time. She was chosen for the role because she has significant experience as a change management and leadership development consultant and has worked with not-for-profit associations and enterprises for over 20 years. She is also an academic, teaching in MBA and other business related post graduate programs at Deakin University. She is also a business coach. She has post graduate qualifications in organisational psychology and a PhD in leadership.

    40 min
  5. Theresa Van Lith - Art Therapist (Australia)

    02/04/2024

    Theresa Van Lith - Art Therapist (Australia)

    I currently hold the role of Course Coordinator for the Master and Graduate Diploma of Art Therapy. Upon completion of my PhD, I took up a tenure-track position at Florida State University where amongst other activities I had the key responsibility for coordinating clinical placements. I continued my research in the area of art therapy and mental health recovery, as well as investigations on research and professional issues in art therapy. I have been the Principal Investigator on several research projects including: Group art therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, early intervention art therapy with Latinx farmworker children, as well as mindfulness-based art therapy, and technology-assisted approaches to dealing with anxiety and stress in university students. I continue to play an active role in the American Art Therapy Association including as Associate Editor of the highly regarded professional academic journal. I currently serve as a Board Member for the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapy Association (ANZACATA) and External Member for the MIECAT Academic Board. I have been the recipient of numerous awards including the American Art Therapy Association Seed Grant (2021); National Endowment for the Arts Research Award (2020); Department of Art Education Faculty Teaching Award (2019); the Rawley Silver Research Award from the American Art Therapy Association (2017); and the Transformation Through Teaching Award from Florida State University - Spiritual Life Project (2016). www.artthxresearch.com

    1h 48m
  6. Noula Diamantopulous - Psychotherapist (Australia)

    10/22/2023

    Noula Diamantopulous - Psychotherapist (Australia)

    Noula is an Australian clinical psychotherapist, artist, and author, and the founding director of the BeCause Movement. Across all her expressions, she is deeply passionate about removing the affect of developmental neglect and not belonging on human lives.    She is a Brainspotting Trainer and Consultant, and also trained in Somatic Experiencing (SE) levels 1 and 2, Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) level 1& 2 and trained in Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR, full member EMDRAA), and with Frank Corrigan in Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) and trained in trauma therapy and parts work. Noula also uses a range of mediums to open new conversations and perspectives on mental health issues. She is represented by Artereal Gallery, Australia, was the Founder and Director of MAANZ, and also hosts a variety of art & well-being focused workshops. Noula was selected as the therapist in a six-part observational documentary - called Space 22 - which explores the impact of creativity on our mental wellbeing.    https://iview.abc.net.au/show/space-22  See more about Noula here:  www.nouladiamantopoulos.com www.becausemovement.org  Or follow Noula on Instagram @nouladiamantopoulos

    59 min
  7. Dr. Carla Van Laar - Creative Arts Therapist (Australia)

    06/28/2023

    Dr. Carla Van Laar - Creative Arts Therapist (Australia)

    You can support the show via a monthly membership at ⁠patreon.com/GreeneMoonStudios Carla is an Artist and Creative Arts Therapist based in Boon Wurrung Country, Inverloch, Victoria. She brings decades of experience working with people and the arts for well-being in community, justice, health, education, and private practice contexts. Experiential ways of knowing underpin Carla’s therapeutic work, including embodied attunement and arts-based responding, informed by trauma-centered, strengths-based, existential, and narrative approaches. She loves to share creative practices as ways of knowing and being. Carla’s book Bereaved Mother’s Heart (2007) broke social taboos about maternal grief. Seeing Her Stories (2020) presents Carla’s research into making Women’s stories visible through art. Her most recent publication is “Art Therapy First Aid: Growing Capacity with Art Therapists in Communities Affected by Australian Bushfires”(in Scarce, J. (Ed.) 2022). An educator in the field of Creative Art Therapy since 2001, Carla received an Artist Fellowship at RMIT’s creative research lab, “Creative Agency” in 2018. She is a lead campaigner in the ACTivate Arts Therapy collective, and Founding Director of the Creative Mental Health Forum. Carla insists on being part of a creative revolution in which art re-embodies lived experience, brings us to our senses, makes us aware of the interconnectedness of all life, and is an agent of social change.  Carla is the Convenor of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)’s College of Creative and Experiential Therapies, and in this role, she is dedicated to working for access to creative therapies for everyone. carlavanlaar.com

    51 min
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Support the podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fat-moon/subscribe FAT Moon is a platform for creative therapists to connect and learn from one another through conversations with practitioners from around the globe. It is an independent, self-funded podcast created and run solely by me. Subscriber support helps sustain the care and labour involved in making each episode. Listening to FAT Moon is recognised as CPD by ANZACATA.

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  • Creator
    Greene Moon Studios
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Clean
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