
The institute offers live and online courses, certificate programs and distance learning opportunities in the United States and internationally. In 2010 she founded the Trauma-Informed Practices & Expressive Arts Therapy Institute to educate and promote the application of expressive arts therapy and art therapy towards the treatment of trauma in children and adults. While there she also served as editor for the journal Trauma & Loss: Research & Interventions. In this role she developed art-based trauma intervention programs for children and families of military personnel and veterans. īetween 19, Malchiodi was a faculty member for the National Institute for Trauma & Loss in Children. In an interview, Malchiodi states that she found her calling as an art therapist after finding work at a shelter for children escaping domestic violence, where she saw the importance of art in the role of healing and recovery.

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These accreditations include Licensed Professional Art Therapist (LPAT), her Board Certified-Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and her license as a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT). During this time she became a professional credentialed member of several different mental health associations with different designations of licensure. She attended Northcentral University and was awarded her PhD in psychology in 2009. In 1988 she attended the University of Utah, where she was awarded her post-graduate degree in Counseling and Health Education in 1992. Between 19 she studied art therapy at the College of Notre Dame De Namur and was awarded an MA. Malchiodi's work in the arts began as a student at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston MA where she studied multicultural arts, painting and conceptual/performance arts, where she achieved her BFA in 1975. JSTOR ( August 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources.
