Directors Faculty Guest Faculty
Faculty
Ellen Levine
Ellen Levine, M.S.W., Ph.D., is is a Senior Staff Social Worker at the
Hincks-Dellcrest Centre for Children's Mental Health and a core faculty member
at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She is the author of Tending the Fire: Studies in Art, Therapy
and Creativity (EGS Press),
co-editor of Foundations of
Expressive Arts Therapy: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives (Jessica
Kingsley Press), co-author of Principles
and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics (Jessica
Kingsley Press), co-editor of In Praise
of Poeisis: The Arts and Human Suffering
(EGS Press) and co-editor of Art in
Action: Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change (Jessica Kingsley Press).
Ellen is a graduate of the Toronto Art Therapy Institute (D.T.A.T.I.), a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (A.T.R.-BC) and a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT). She is a graduate of the Toronto Child Psychotherapy Programme and a registered psychoanalyst (NAAP). Although her primary medium is visual art, she has also studied clown and mask work with Richard Pochinko and others. Lee Shields
Lee Shields, M.A., is a graduate of Ryerson University, ISIS-Canada and European Graduate School. (Switzerland) She also studied at Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy and has worked in private practice and community agencies as a therapist and supervisor for over 15 years. Lee has extensive experience in working with a variety of clients, including children, adolescents and adults. For the last 8 years, Lee has been doing group and one on one expressive arts therapy at the Griffin Centre.
For 8 years, Lee has been a core faculty member with ISIS-Canada, where she co-ordinates the practicums and teaches the 16-week Foundations of Expressive Arts course. Lee is a member of OACCPP. Lee has a background in dance and vocal art and over the last 8 years she has been studying encaustic art at the Toronto School of Art. If you want more information about this faculty member see www.leeshields.ca Lesley Swartz
Lesley Swartz, M.Ed, is an expressive arts therapist, group facilitator, teacher, and supervisor. She holds an undergraduate degree from Dalhousie University in International Development Studies and a Masters of Education from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE/UT) where she focused on holistic and aesthetic education, and creative community development.
She is also a graduate from ISIS-Canada, and has been core-teaching faculty at ISIS for the past four years. She has worked with a diverse range of high-risk communities in Toronto using the expressive arts, and has been working for Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services facilitating an expressive arts program for refugee and immigrant women in under-serviced neighborhoods for over eight years. She has a private expressive arts therapy practice in downtown Toronto for adults and children. She spends her creative time exploring the world with her young children and expanding her range of play through explorations in clown, voice and collage. |
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