Pratt Institute

Education

M.P.S., Pratt Institute; Art Therapy and Creativity Development
B.A., Psychology

Biography

Laurel Thompson is credentialed as a dance therapist, art therapist and Focusing Trainer, and is a licensed creative arts therapist in New York State. She is currently finishing her doctoral dissertation at Union Institute and University, focusing on the choices in art forms that creative arts therapists make in clinical treatment. She is on the Board of the American Dance Therapy Association (chairperson on Education, Research and Practice), on the Education Committee of the American Art Therapy Association and on the Board of the USA Body Psychotherapy Association. She is on the editorial boards of several professional journals, has published in the field and has done extensive presentations.