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 33 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 with which 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 populations affected with trauma. In her community-based and clinical work, she integrates trauma-informed practices while supporting individuals and groups who wish to integrate the body into their therapeutic journeys.

Her work has taken her to Palestine, Uganda, Kenya, Greece, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and The Netherlands where she offers individual and group therapy sessions to develop Dance Movement Therapy education programs and workshops on trauma and restoration through the body.

In India, she has been supporting mental health practitioners and Expressive Arts Therapy programs through her training, workshops, and embodied supervision with various organisations. In the Netherlands, she collaborates with NGOs such as Refugee Company, War Child Holland, to develop movement-based psycho-social care for children and adults with a refugee background globally. Her research work focused on using Dance Movement Therapy for resilience building among traumatised women refugees and asylum seekers. She is also a certified trauma-sensitive yoga practitioner at TCTSY, associated with the centre for trauma and embodiment, JRI. Her trauma-informed approach anchors bodily engagement across the spectrum of creative modalities at A Moving world – WE DANCE; where she promotes dance and movement as a therapeutic tool for self-empowerment, community building, and resource-building.

With nearly 15 years of experience as an artist, facilitator, and therapist, Pallavi 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.

Born in the US and of Indian ethnic origin, Krupa is a living bridge between cultures through art. As an art therapy gypsy, Krupa travels, presents and teaches regularly throughout Asia, America and Europe. Krupa’s TEDx Women talk on “Art as a Mirror” can be viewed online.

After working on more than 100 children’s books and trade media as an Art Director in publishing in NYC, Krupa found her passion in service, art and healing. She recently completed her PhD through the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, documenting her arts-based research on faith and spirituality within Expressive Arts Therapy (Switzerland, 2022). She also has formal graduate Art Therapy training from the School of Visual Arts (NYC, 2008) before integrating therapeutic awareness into traditional expression in the Indian culture.

Krupa is an Ambassador to India for Art Therapy Without Borders, with specialized research on the therapeutic experience of traditional and sacred Indian art forms including kolam, henna, embroidery, and mandalas. She continues to investigate the links between intention (sankalpa), ritual arts and resilience in humankind. She is currently the Head of the Research & Publication Committee for The Art Therapy Association of India (TATAI), and teaching on the esteemed PG Diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy program at St. Xaviers (Mumbai).

Krupa has experience working with children and women with HIV/AIDS, in child protection, as a certified Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy consultant, cross-cultural social justice work, mindful and nature-based creativity, and the combined practice of Art & Yoga. In 2009, she travelled through over 80 locations in India and Nepal, independently surveying potential applications of art therapy with a vision to build an art centre and share creativity as a healing journey with others.

Krupa enjoys rising with the sun to offer a kolam or traditional ground drawing with rice powder in front of her home in Tamil Nadu, South India.

Madhu 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, Ph.D., REAT is an Associate Professor, Chair of Holistic Counseling and Co-Chair of Counseling Psychology at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, CA, USA. He sees psychotherapy clients as a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Berkeley, CA (PSY 26445).

Jacob has served as President of the John F Kennedy University Faculty Senate, Associate Managing Editor for the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, and on the Boards of Directors of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, the Association of Transpersonal Psychology, and as President of the San Francisco Psychological Association. He has presented internationally on expressive arts therapy, Jungian psychology, dreams, imagination, nature and psyche, and spiritual diversity issues in clinical practice.

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. 

Belinda Rego’s journey towards becoming an Expressive art Therapist was a natural and inevitable step in her personal and professional journey.

Belinda did her Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting at the College of Fine Arts, Bangalore and went on to complete her Masters in History of Art, with a specialisation in Art Education, at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan. As an art teacher, she had witnessed the transformative power of the Arts.

Belinda did her Foundation in Creative Arts therapy from the Studio for Movement Arts and Therapies and Basic Skills in Child and Adolescent Counselling at Parivarthan. She also completed her Basic and Advanced courses in NLP and Gestalt therapy under Richard McHugh. As part of her continuing learning, she has attended workshops by Jungians Anne Shearer, Sam Bolstrom and Kate T Donohue and was part of a group working with dreams with Anjali D’souza. She is currently doing a 2-year intensive program in Psychodrama under Dr. Jochen Becker-Ebel of the Moreno Institute.

Her clients include adolescents and children as well as adults. She is drawn to and has been working with children affected by HIV and the underprivileged for the last few years. She has conducted one-day experiential workshops as part of the FECAT program and also runs studio art sessions for engagement with the Arts with them. She covers the experiential visual arts module as a trainer and is a personal therapist and supervisor for the FECAT program.

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 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.