Response to Coronavirus Pandemic

With the closures of schools and gathering establishments in New York State and in consultation with the Hudson Valley Guild of Mental Health Professionals, I have decided to CLOSE the physical space where the Creative Art Therapy Studio is located, until public use is approved again, in the hopes that this action will help stop the unwitting spread of COVID-19.

At a later time, based on the situation on the ground, and the advisement of the Mental Health Professional Guild, I will inform you of my intention to see children, adults, and facilitate training programs, again at the Creative Art Therapy Studio OR to extend its closing.

In the interim, in order to serve the therapeutic needs of clients and students, I have put the following mechanisms in place:

For Adult Clients:

I am set up to provide therapy, via HIPPA-Compliant, Tele-therapy, FaceTime, or Skype Sessions.

For Training Programs:

I am set up to provide all scheduled on-going training to registered participants via ZOOM, a free, on-line meeting platform.

For Child Clients:

I have been conducting half-hour phone sessions with children who are in need of therapy and wish to check in and speak with me by phone.

I am also sending, child-specific, art & play “CARE" packages to each child. As I know, many parents/grandparents are "home schooling” and could use some support.

TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT PLEASE CALL: 845-417-4558 BETWEEN 9:00 AM & 9:00 PM.

Services

Additional Information

Training in Creative Arts Therapy:

-Post-Graduate Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Creative Arts Therapy

- Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals (Open to Mental, Medical, & Education Professionals)

- Sand Play Therapy Training

- Clinical Supervision for Creative Arts Therapy Licensure

Art Therapy:

- Individual and Group Therapy Sessions for Children, Adults, and Families

Sandplay Therapy:

- Individual and Group Therapy Sessions for Children, Adults, and Families

Meet Dr. Barbera

Dr. Barbera is a New York State Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Dr. Barbera serves on the faculty of the Humanistic/Multicultural Education Graduate Program at the State University of New York, at New Paltz, and for the last seventeen years, she has developed and teaches courses in Expressive Arts for Social Justice Teacher Education and Expressive Art Therapy. As well as being a Social Justice Educator, Dr. Barbera is an artist-ethnographic researcher, writer, and art therapist, in private practice.

Dr. Barbera Directs the Post-Graduate Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Creative Arts Therapy at Adelphi University's School of Social Work Hudson Valley Center, in Poughkeepsie, New York and The Creative Arts Therapy Certificate Program at Ulster BOCES Adult Education Career Center in Port Ewen, New York.

Dr. Barbera is the recipient of the 2010 Excellence in Scholarship Award from the Electronic Dissertation and Thesis Association (EDT) for her Doctoral Dissertation:Palpable Pedagogy: Expressive Arts, Leadership, and Change in Social Justice Teacher Education (An Ethnographic/Auto-Ethnographic Study of the Classroom Culture of an Arts-Based Teacher Education Course). She is also the author of Expressive Arts in Teacher Education: Cultivating Social Justice Leadership (2011), Lambert Academic Publishing, which is based on her dissertation. Learn more