Barbara Fish, PhD, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCPC, HLM
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Barbara Fish PhD, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCPC, HLM has been an art therapist, certified art therapy supervisor, art-based educator, and researcher for more than forty years, most recently teaching at Saint Mary of the Woods College. Barbara has worked extensively with children in state care, supervised therapists, consulted to agencies and provided training in trauma informed practices. Her research and practice rely on the authority of the image, manifested by using response art, as a fundamental resource and art-based way of knowing. Her publications, include her book, Art-based Supervision: Cultivating Therapeutic Insight Through Imagery (Routledge 2017), and her chapter, Drawing and Painting Research in Leavy’s Handbook of Arts-Based Research (Guilford, 2017). Barbara was awarded the American Art Therapy Association’s Honorary Life Member award in 2019., Barbara relocated to San Diego, California in 2019 where she teaches and provides supervision in person and at a distance.