RCAT, MPS-AT, CCC, SEP, REAT (in process)

Lindsay (she/her/they) is a Métis woman residing in Amiskwaciwâskahikan, Treaty 6 Territory, Metis Nation Region 4. Her roots include Indigenous and settler origins, holding Metis and Cree ancestry as well as Celtic, Scottish, French and Ukrainian; as such, walking in two worlds has been an instrumental part of her life path.

Lindsay is a body-centered, expressive-arts psychotherapist, coach, and guide. Her professional practice lies at the intersection of transformational learning, embodiment, creativity, and personal development. She offers trauma-responsive, creative, and resource-based guidance for all seasons of life - to bloom where you are planted.

She has a particular interest in clinical supervision and in supporting other emerging therapists in the praxis of their own personal and professional identities, along with supporting helping professionals in health and learning systems in developing the capacity for self-awareness and presence as reflective practice as a means to ethical practice through the process of embodiment.

MED, DKATI, BED, BSC

Martine is an art maker, a mother and an educator who lives her life inspired by the creativity she finds in nature, people and the world. She graduated from the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute in 1998 and completed a Masters in School Counseling in 2016. Martine has been an educator and school counselor in the public school system for nearly 15 years. She is the co-founder of Art for People Projects, an organization which raises money to support creative projects both locally and abroad. She is passionate for the outdoors and has enjoyed many slow adventures while bike touring the world with her family. Her approach is strongly flavoured with the gratitude she feels for the relationships in her life, and her commitment to living in the moment.

PhD, RP, RCAT

Olena is a Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario and a Registered Canadian Art Therapist. She completed her PhD in Expressive Therapies at Lesley University and has facilitated art therapy workshops and trainings nationally and internationally. As a mental health practitioner, she has 23 years of clinical experience working with individuals of all ages and from culturally diverse backgrounds in a variety of settings such as child and family services, developmental disabilities services agencies, schools, and long term-care facilities in Australia, Canada, USA, and Ukraine. At this time, she facilitates individual and group art therapy sessions for adults with autism spectrum disorders at Lawson Ministries Hamilton Autism Centre. She is a Past President of the Canadian Art Therapy Association.

BA, BFA, RCAT

Evie Dunville was born, raised and is currently practicing Art Therapy in the beautiful K’jipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia.

Evie began her journey to art therapy at Mount Saint Vincent University (2004), completing a BA in Psychology and English, followed by a quick trip around the world, teaching English in South Korea. Once back in Nova Scotia, she completed a BFA in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing from NSCAD University (2010), before earning her certification as an art therapist from the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute (2016). She continues learning each day, from her clients, from the earth, and through her colleagues and other professionals.

Evie believes in creating a sustainable and accessible environment for creativity and wellness to flourish. She often intertwines the written word with art, creating a body of work wherein the form is either emphasized or accentuated by prose and inspired by nature.

BAACS, DKATI, RCAT

Nikki Featherstone is a Registered Canadian Art Therapist who enjoys lifelong passions for art, healing, spirituality, cats, trees, and the sacredness of the everyday. Her therapeutic approach is Feminist, Anti-Oppressive, Person-Centered, Trauma Informed, and Spiritually Integrated.

Nikki is the author of an e-book titled, Shapeshifter: One Woman’s Journey through Creative Spiritual Transformation as part of the completion of her studies with the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute.

RCAT, RP, DKATI, BFA

Lindsay Joy Hamilton (Biidaaban) is an artist, educator, Registered Canadian Art Therapist (RCAT) and Registered Psychotherapist (RP) in Southern Treaty 3 Territory near Gojiji-zaaga'igan and Gojiji-ziibi (Rainy Lake and Rainy River). Lindsay has offered art therapy in child and family services, school systems, healthcare and social service systems over the past decade. She is ushering in a new chapter of her career by entering into private practice. Lindsay graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2009 and went on to graduate from the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute in 2015.

BSc, DKATI, RCAT

Juanita is an avid painter and clinician who offers mental health and substance counselling and art therapy services primarily focused on Indigenous populations. She is devoted to the preservation of traditional knowledge, the use of traditional healing methods and all efforts toward mending our relationship with the Earth. She facilitates workshops and healing circles and offers clinical and art therapy supervision. Her work is grounded by ethical, cultural, and spiritual sensitivity from an ancestral trauma-informed and anti-oppressive approach. Juanita is a Kutenai Art Therapy graduate (2013) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Communications from the University of Idaho (2004). Juanita celebrates the creative and playful spirit in each of us and our endless capacity for change and healing.

BA (Hons), DKATI, RTC, RCAT, CCTP

Cheryl is a clinical counsellor and trauma-informed art therapist. She is also a certified NARM therapist. NARM (The NeuroAffective Relational Model) is specifically designed for working with complex trauma by addressing the attachment patterns that cause life-long psychobiological symptoms and interpersonal difficulties.

Cheryl began her career as a senior residential social worker in a therapeutic unit, using a play therapy approach. After moving from the UK to Canada in 2018 and completing the KATI program, she discovered the ‘missing piece’ she had been looking for in working with trauma. She is now passionate about integrating art therapy with NARM and Internal Family Systems Theory. She is particularly drawn to working with those with trauma-related diagnoses and marginalized populations, including survivors of human trafficking.

Alongside her work as an instructor, Cheryl facilitates art therapy groups and has a private practice where she welcomes individuals of any age, both online and in-person.

DKATI, RCAT

Tayler Schenkeveld holds the spirit name White Thunderbird Woman and is a member of the Manitoba Metis and the Bear Clan. She has roots on Treaty 1 territory in Win-nipi (also known as Winnipeg, MB) and now gratefully resides on Treaty 7 territory in Mohkinstsis (also known as Calgary, AB). She is an artist and a Registered Canadian Art Therapist specializing in Indigenous cultural reconnection, identity formation, community-based healing, and breaking the cycles of intergenerational trauma. Tayler is currently working towards completing the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology program at Yorkville University with plans of future registration with the College of Alberta Psychologists.

B.Ed, DKATI, RCAT

Jennifer Schwartz is a Registered Canadian Art Therapist, Mental Health Therapist, Supervisor, and Instructor with over 20 years experience in Child & Youth Mental Health. She works in private practice virtually and in-person as a Child & Youth Mental Health (CYMH) & Sexual Abuse Intervention (SAIP) Therapist.

Jennifer has completed numerous trainings in complex trauma and child development and has recently started training to become a Mentalization-based therapist. Jennifer’s approach emphasizes play, imagination, and symbolization with a firm footing in attachment, mentalization and object relations theories.

BFA, DTATI, RCAT, RP

Afsaneh Shafai is an interdisciplinary artist, Registered Art Therapist and Psychotherapist, and a person of diaspora of Iranian-Canadian heritage. She graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba and she continued her studies in Art Therapy at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute. She is based in Tkaronto (Toronto), the ancestral territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and the home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. She has decades of clinical experience helping a diverse population of all ages with their mental health struggles. She has considerable knowledge in working with neuro-diverse populations, BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, refugees, newcomers, and war and torture survivor.

RCC-ACS, RCAT, REAT

Keith is an artist, musician, yogi, gardener, and highly experienced art therapist, expressive arts therapist, somatic psychotherapist, and clinical supervisor with extensive experience of supporting people to heal and grow from the impacts of trauma and concurrent problems such as addictions, eating disorders, emotional dysregulation, and relationship issues. Originally from England, he currently lives and works on the west coast of Canada.

MA, DVATI, RCAT, LMFT, RMFT, RCC, RYT

Katrina (she/they) is a somatic creative arts psychotherapist, practicing 23 years, working with complex personal and collective trauma through liberatory, intersectional-feminist, embodied relational neuroscience, and ecological views. She lives in the Ancestral Territory of the Qualicum First Nation.

Katrina roots into embodied presence and expressive arts lineages. She runs a private practice offering psychotherapy and consultation (www.katrinacurrymft.com), and worked previously in feminist antiviolence, D&A harm reduction, urban, rural, and remote Indigenous communities, psychiatric care, and community mental health.

Enya-Morgan is a fibre and mixed media artist, a lifelong learner, and a mother — bringing a unique perspective to her role as a Marketing Assistant. She supports KATI in creating awareness of art therapy and the programs offered by the school. She finds her job at supporting KATI, and its students, meaningful and understands the importance of effective and timely promotion of the important work that happens at and through the Institute.

In her free time, she enjoys reading fiction and non-fiction literary work, exploring culinary techniques, and chasing cats.

RP(Q), RTC, DKATI

Ashleigh (she/her) is a professional art therapist, outdoor enthusiast and educator originally from Ontario, Canada. Since moving to Nelson and graduating from the art therapy training program on campus, Ashleigh has transitioned into the roles of school-based art therapy clinician and clinical placement coordinator at KATI.

Ashleigh brings a strength-based, spiritually-integrated, trauma-informed, and relational therapeutic approach to her work. She integrates neuroscience informed art-therapy, mindfulness techniques and somatic experiencing in her art therapy work with clients of all ages healing from trauma. Ashleigh directly specializes in child & youth art therapy services and facilitating eco-art therapy workshops and groups.

As part of her completion of studies at KATI, Ashleigh authored a self reflective art book grounding her own art therapy training experience in neuroscience, somatic and spiritual theories. It is entitled, "Soul Bodied: a creative journey of self exploration integrating mind, body and spirit."

BA, RTC, DKATI

Kat is a professional Art Therapist and Artist. Originally from Scotland, Kat is now privileged to live, work and play amongst the traditional territories of the Sinixt, the Syilx, and the Ktunaxa peoples, Nelson BC. Kat supports her clients using a relational, trauma informed approach, and believes passionately in drawing resources from the natural world.

Kat has experience working with children, youth at risk and adults in both indoor and outdoor settings. She currently co-facilitates an Equine Art Therapy practice, named Horses with Heart, which brings together the magic of art therapy with therapeutic experiences with horses.