Kate Donohue is a licensed psychologist & a registered expressive arts therapist (REAT). She holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology & has maintained an active private practice for 40 years. She has also taught for 30 years, at institutions such as the California Institute of Integral Studies, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, JFK University & the San Francisco C.G. Jung Institute. She co-founded the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association & is an MCEP & CEU provider.

Kate believes that searching for meaning connects us to the soul & the spirit, resulting in a life that is more open, more joyful & closer to the true self. Her approach to psychotherapy is guided by her passion for art, culture & spirituality. Her work marries Jungian-oriented expressive arts therapy with a search for what is real, authentic & unique within us.

Brinda Jacob-Janvrin is a contemporary dancer/choreographer with more than 25 years of performing experience. She is also a qualified counsellor and has been working extensively with movement therapy over the last 15 years.

Her current movement disciplines include contemporary dance (1994 onwards), Authentic Movement (2011 onwards) and Ashtanga yoga (2013 onwards). Her previous movement training includes Kalaripayattu, Bharatanatayam, Kathak, Hatha, and Vinaysa Flow yoga, Physical theatre, Contact Improvisation, etc.

From 2012 onwards Brinda has been training in and exploring Expressive Arts Therapy as a powerful modality to work with clients. While movement and the body is her primary modality, she also engages with techniques from visual art therapy, drama therapy, sand play, and psychodrama.

Today Brinda trains, works with individual and group clients, facilitates, performs and choreographs.

Katia Verreault is a Dance Movement Therapist with extensive work experience in multicultural settings and more specifically with trauma and communities affected by war & displacement. For the last 10 years she has been providing and developing evidence-based methodologies and psychosocial support programs such as TeamUp for displaced children and youth affected by conflict in humanitarian settings. Her clinical & research work focuses on using Dance Movement Therapy for resilience building and movement based psychosocial support. She also works with group and individual at the day treatment programme for Complicated grief at ARQ the National Psychotrauma centre in the Netherlands.

Katia regularly visits India and works in collaboration with various organisations to support the importance of the body in existing counselling programs and Expressive Arts therapy programs globally. She is a certified TCTSY certified practitioner (Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga) associated with the Centre for trauma and embodiment . She has integrated this approach into her work of the last years. She loves to share this humbling authentic practice with individuals and groups. Her work has taken her across the globe and his rooted, inspired and nourished in community-based work and practices. She has lived for more than 15 years in Nepal and is currently based in Amsterdam.

Pallavi Chander has over 15 years of experience as an artist, facilitator, and therapist. She has had the opportunity to work in schools, special needs centers, arts collectives, charities and hospital settings in India and the UK. She received the Charles Wallace India Scholarship Award in 2015 and completed her training in Drama and Movement Therapy at RCSSD, London in 2017. She is a certified Arts-Based therapist trained with WCCLF, Pune in 2012.

Pallavi is passionate about using the arts with children of all ages. She works with children and adults who are differently-abled and young adults challenged with behavioral issues and mental health concerns. As a Creative Arts Therapist, her practice is influenced by the arts-based therapy approach and the Sesame approach to drama and movement therapy which is informed by Jungian psychology, Laban movement, play theory and Billy Lindkvist’s work with Movement with Touch and Sound. She currently practices under the initiative – Turiya, with different communities, organizations, and institutions.

Krupa Jhaveri, PhD, is an expressive arts therapist, art director, artist, teacher, researcher (a/r/tographer) and founder of Sankalpa: Art Journeys based in Tamil Nadu, south India, since 2009. Born in the US and of Gujarati origin, she is a living bridge between cultures through art. Krupa specialises as a trauma-informed expressive arts therapist, in the combination of art & yoga/mindfulness, in reclaiming the therapeutic value of indigenous art forms and decolonising the links between ritual and resilience. Krupa is an Editorial Review Board member for the Canadian Journal of Art Therapy, Ambassador to India for Art Therapy Without Borders, is a TEDx Women speaker, published a chapter within Craft in Art Therapy (Routledge 2020) and completed her arts-based doctoral research on faith and spirituality in EXAT through the European Graduate School in Switzerland (2022). She is currently teaching four programs internationally to support the culturally-informed expansion of this field.

Madhu Shukla is a certified Psychodrama Director (CP) and PAT based out of Bangalore. She believes in the power of creative arts to live and lead with creativity, purpose, and a sense of service. She is a story practitioner and co-founder of By the River, a storytelling initiative started in 2014 that revels in taking the joy and power of stories to adults and communities. Since her post-graduation in acting from The National School of Drama, New Delhi, she has also explored the applications of theatre, storytelling and psychodrama practices for personal and leadership transformation for over 15 years. She is also the co-founder of India’s first all-women’s improv group – The Adamant Eves and is one of the early members of the improv community in Bangalore. 

While Madhu facilitates workshops for a range of diverse groups, she is drawn to working with adolescent girls, helping them transition into adulthood through creative arts-based processes and practices.

Jacob Kaminker, PhD is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the State of California (PSY 26445) and a Professor in the MA in Counseling Psychology program in the John F Kennedy School of Psychology. Formerly, he was Chair of Counseling Psychology at John F Kennedy University (JFKU), Chair of Holistic Counseling Psychology, Founding Director of the Depth Psychotherapy Program, Director of the Expressive Arts Therapy Program, and Director of the Trauma Certificate. He has sat on the Board of Directors for the Association of Transpersonal Psychology and the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and is a Past President of the San Francisco Psychological Association. His published peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and textbook contributions have been in the areas of mindfulness, self-compassion, spiritual diversity in clinical practice, dreams, and imagination. He has presented internationally on Jungian psychology, dreams, imagination, and spiritual diversity in clinical practice. In addition to his private practice based in Berkeley, CA, he has provided clinical supervision to trainees and associate therapists in a sliding scale clinic in Oakland, CA.

Laura Smith-Riva is a certified practitioner of Natural Dreamwork and a practising Druid of the Green Mountain Druid Order. She offers one-on-one dream consultation to individuals in the US and abroad and is a mentor for Natural Dreamwork Practitioners-in-training. She practices Natural Dreamwork through the cultivation of a dream practice based on the natural healing qualities found in dreams inherent in the sacred objects, symbols, creatures and archetypes that populate the dream landscape. She compassionately creates space for the dreamer to delve deeply into the images and feelings of the dream to find their authenticity, voice, passion and creativity.

Laura lives in the mysterious Green Mountains of Vermont with her partner of 25 years on a small homestead farm. When she’s not wrangling sheep, you can find her painting or writing in her studio, connecting to the healing energy of the earth, or engaged in laughter and general mayhem with her friends and family in various parts of the globe. She regularly blogs about her journey through dreams and vision work on the dream blog In Search of Puella and her artworks have been featured in several publications and ezines. 

Sukhvinder Sircar is an accredited group process facilitator and life coach and her deep understanding of human behaviour and aspirations support her facilitation work. Her ‘Joyous Woman!’ workshops are hugely popular and transformational. Through these workshops, she facilitates men and women to come back to their true, joyous, and divine selves in a powerful way.

Robin Raju is an Expressive Arts Therapy Practitioner (certified by Studio for Movement Arts & Therapies, Bangalore) with a keen interest in movement based practices. Body & movement and what it means to live an embodied life are his areas of research and exploration.

Before moving to Expressive Arts, Robin worked as a a Communications professional specialising in Public Relations, Social Media and Digital Communications.

Monica Gangoly has been associated with SMArT as a graphic designer since its inception. She graduated from the second batch of FECAT and now contributes as a resource builder, strategic planner, developing the Learning Management System and instructional design of the various courses offered by SMArT.

She also spearheads her design studio – MGP India, creating communication material for corporates & individuals. With over 2 decades of experience in the field of advertising & design, Monica started her career at Grey Advertising, before launching out on her own.