World
Arts Therapies 
Supervision Summit

October 30–31, 2026

The World Arts Therapies Supervision Summit 2026 is an international online gathering dedicated to clinical supervision across art therapy, music therapy, drama therapy, dance/movement therapy, and expressive arts therapies. It aims to bridge the creative supervision practice from different modalities, bringing together experienced supervisors, educators, and authors on the subject from around the world. The Summit explores creative, relational, culturally responsive, and arts-based approaches to supervision. 
Join a global community on October 30–31, 2026 to discover evolving practices, research, and perspectives shaping the future of supervision in the creative arts therapies. 

If you cannot attend online or want to benefit from CE/CPD credits, check our paid home-study package offering you all the presentations, outlines, and additional materials. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for details.
This home study package gives you 15 NBCC CE credits and ATCB CE credits.

Prices are in Canadian Dollars 
Students will benefit of 30% discount of the displayed price if they send us proof of enrollment in an academic institution.

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The free event will take place on October 30-31, 2026.
Please access the home-study package if you want to hear how creative arts therapists were dedicating their life to serve arts therapies by supporting colleagues gain confidence as professionals, use art as a co-therapist in their sessions, and inspiring through presence and guidance. This home study package gives you 15 NBCC CE credits.

Summit Founding Speakers

We are honoured to welcome the Founding Speakers of the Arts Therapies Supervision Summit, an international group of experienced practitioners, educators, authors, and researchers whose work has contributed to the growth of supervision across the creative arts therapies. Together, they bring diverse perspectives, traditions, and approaches to a shared conversation about how supervision can support reflective practice, creativity, professional development, and connection across disciplines and cultures.

The detailed program and goals of this home study course are presented on the Program page. Please click on it to check the abstracts, bios, and goals of each of the presentation contained in the course.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the CE credits offered.

Abbe Miller

Ph.D., ATR-BC, AATCE, LPC

Professor Emerita at Albertus Magnus College, Abbe has practiced transformational art therapy for over 45 years. She is an artist-art therapist who uses her original El Duende One-canvas layering process of re-working imagery as it emerges, teaching international workshops, in private practice, and supervision...

Monica Carpendale

BFA, DVATI, BCATR, RCAT

Art therapist, educator, supervisor, author, and founder and Professor Emeritus of the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute. With over 40 years of experience, she has contributed extensively to arts-based supervision and phenomenological practice. Her books include A Traveler’s Guide to Art Therapy Supervision...

Barbara Fish

PhD, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCPC

Art therapist who provided art-based supervision in academic and private practice settings for more than 40 years. Her research focuses on the use of response art in art therapy. She has authored many articles and book chapters. Author of Art-based Supervision: Cultivating Therapeutic Insight Through Imagery...

Heidrun Panhofer

Ph.D.

Founder of the master’s degree programme in Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) at the Autonomous University (UAB) of Barcelona in Spain in 2003. Since then, she has directed, taught, and supervised the programme at the Department for Clinical Psychology, which has trained over 600 students in dance and movement therapy... 

Annette Coulter

MA, AThR-S, PACFA

Art psychotherapist, published author, Interactive Drawing Therapy specialist and practicing artist. She is an accredited supervisor with PACFA and an honorary life member and approved supervisor of the ANZACATA. She has taught on four art therapy programs in Australia and overseas...

Lisa Hinz

Ph.D., ATR-BC

Art therapist, psychologist, educator, author, and internationally recognized ETC scholar. Her work bridges art therapy, neuroscience, assessment, and clinical practice. Author of the book Expressive Therapies Continuum, she has contributed extensively to ETC theory, research, and training...

Maria Riccardi

MA, Ph.D., ATR-BC, c.o

Art therapist, psychologist, supervisor, visual artist, guidance counsellor, and educator. She teaches at UQAT, Montreal. Her work integrates clinical practice and higher education and she created a reflective self-inquiry method based on Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETSI) to support art therapists in their practice...

Nuria Marsimian

Lic. in Music Therapy

Since 2014, she has been Director of Music Therapy and Autism Spectrum Postgraduate Course at the Italian Hospital University of Buenos Aires. She is a teacher and tutor of the Master of Music Therapy and Functional Diversity (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain) and a visiting lecturer for the Global Music Therapy Master’s program (Panama)...

Miki Nishida Goerdt

LCSW, LCSW-C, ATR-BC

Board-certified art therapist and clinical social worker licensed in Virginia and Maryland. She owns a private practice where she facilitates clinical supervision groups and provides individual therapy. She is also an adjunct faculty member in George Mason University’s Department of Social Work and Lewis and Clark College’s Graduate AT Program...

Tsz Yan Winnie Wong

LCPC, ATR-BC

Board-certified art therapist, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, EMDR-trained clinician, clinical supervisor, educator, researcher, and artist based in Chicago. Her clinical leadership centers on trauma-informed and reflective supervision, with a particular focus on supporting art therapists working with trauma... 

Louvenia Jackson

Ph.D., LMFT, ATR-BC 

Marital and family therapist, board-certified art therapist, educator, and researcher, An assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University, her work focuses on cultural humility, social justice, multicultural pedagogy, She is the author of Cultural Humility in Art Therapy and a national award recipient...

Lisa Lea-Weston

PgDip Dramatherapy, HCPC, BADth

Dramatherapist and Director of Talking Heads Supervision, a social enterprise based in the UK and delivering regular, external supervision to over 600 senior leaders in education on a long-term basis. Lisa also oversees the quality of delivery for the Wellbeing Support for Senior Leaders for Education Support... 

Mary Ann Hunter

Ph.D.

Based in Lutruwita (Tasmania, Australia), Mary Ann supervises education leaders across Australia while facilitating creative learning and research as an Assoc Professor of Education at the University of Tasmania. She brings grounded practices of curiosity, creativity and presence for supervision in education...

Lindsay Clarke

MA, ATR, RCAT, CCC

Art therapist and supervisor whose work centres on creativity, community, and empowerment. Her experience spans women’s shelters, schools, Art Hives, and community exhibitions. In her Montreal practice, atelier lanterne, she integrates trauma-informed and strengths-based approaches along with feminist approaches...

Carmen Oprea

MA, ATR-BC, RCAT

Registered art therapist, supervisor, researcher, and doctoral candidate in psychology. She provides art therapy and arts-based supervision at her clinic Acces Art Therapie. She was previously research associate at Concordia University. Creator and main organizer of World Art Therapy Conferences...

Irina Katz-Mazilu

MA

Holds a masters in Arts Therapies from University of Paris and practiced for more than 25 years as an art therapist with organizations, communities and in private, in different mental and social areas: psychiatry, disabled, migrants, prisoners, homeless, PSTD, with clients of all ages and genders...

Dace Visnola

Dr.paed, Mag.sc.sal.

Certified art therapist with 19 years of experience, certified sandplay therapy practitioner, university lecturer, creativity trainer, mentor. 
Since 2022 she is certified supervisor by the Latvian Association of Supervisors. Based in Latvia, Dace supervises art therapists, art teachers, social workers, social caregivers, etc...

Paula Prior

MA

Art Psychotherapist (Individual, couples & group) in private clinical practice. Supervisor. Certified teacher at the Art Psychotherapy Training Program. Worked as an art therapist in a female state prison, in an educational setting with borderline trait adolescents as well as at the Emergency Room of a public hospital in Lisbon...

Arts Therapies Supervision Summit

HOME STUDY PACKAGE - CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

This package offers you 15 NBCC Countinuing Education credits for certified counsellors in US and ATR-BC.
Other Professional Orders and Associations may accept the accreditation, so please consult with your respective regulatory body.

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Creative Therapies Events Inc. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7468. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Creative Therapies Events Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

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This package will give you 21 hours of continuing education hours, as per approval by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Members of CCPA will receive transcripts at no cost listing all attended events assessed as Continuing Education Credit. Non‐members must attach a cheque for $30.00 payable to CCPA to have CEC’s recorded and to have a transcript issued.

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Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc. (ATCB) recognizes an array of Continuing Education Credit activities, inclusive of those pertaining to the spheres of professional and mental health counseling. These specified activities are delineated within the recertification standards, which are disseminated to all Art Therapy Registered-Board Certified (ATR-BC) professionals during their recertification year, as well as being accessible via the official ATCB website. It is mandated that a minimum of six CE credits in the domain of ethics and six CE credits in the domain of supervision or education must be acquired in each certification cycle. Licensees practicing as art therapists within their respective states (in US) are advised to consult with their state boards to ascertain the acceptability of various CE courses for the purpose of license renewal. 
ATCB Provider ID: 68075312

Please check with your regulatory body in your country, this home study program may be accepted for CE/CPD credits in European countries, Australia, Asia, etc.

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Creative Therapies Events Inc. is our registered legal name under which all official and legal matters are conducted. This includes compliance with all regulatory requirements and licensure board mandates.
We operate under the brand name 'Creative Arts Therapies Events' which may be used, along with our logo, for all our educational and promotional materials, both in print and electronic formats, including for advertising certified credits where applicable.
We have employed LearnWorlds, a learning management system, for delivering this program. The use of LearnWorlds, including its logo, does not imply sponsorship or co-sponsorship of any educational or business activities by LearnWorlds in relation to Creative Therapies Events Inc.

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