Peggy Kolodny MA ATR-BC LCPAT

Peggy Kolodny MA ATR-BC LCPAT, is a Board Certified, Registered, and Licensed Art Psychotherapist with level 2 certificates in EMDR and in Internal Family Systems (IFS). She graduated with a Master’s in Art Therapy from George Washington University in 1982.Founder of the private practice Art Therapy Collective of Owings Mills, she has specialized in trauma treatment across the life span for 42 years. She is an approved Art Therapy Supervisor in Maryland. Peggy is adjunct faculty with George Washington University Art Therapy Graduate trauma track program and Florida State University’s Art Therapy Graduate program, co-creating the trauma course, as well as on multiple professional training faculties, presenting workshops internationally. Currently on the Board of the Maryland Art Therapy Association as the delegate to the American Art Therapy Association, she is also the Co-Chair for EMDR SIG and past chair of the Creative Arts Therapies Special Interest Group, of ISSTD.
Past faculties include University of Maryland School of Social Work, Goucher College, and Maryland Institute, College of Art. She was the past Director of The Family Connection, a former nonprofit focused on trauma survivor and past Chair of the former Central Maryland Sexual Abuse Task Force. Recent publications include a chapter entitled “The Interweave of IFS, EMDR, and Art Therapy,"co-authored with Salicia Mazero in EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies”(Davis, Fitzgerald, Jacobs and Marchand, 2022) as well as 2 chapters on trauma, neuroscience, substance use, and art therapy in Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addictions and Trauma (Quinn, 2021). A chapter on Art Therapy and Dissociation in the Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy is in press.

Elizabeth Davis, MFA, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT

Elizabeth Davis, MFA, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT is a board certified, state licensed art therapist with over 25 years’ experience working in the field of Creative Arts Therapy and trauma therapy. She has conducted dozens of workshops and presentations that offer practical and creative approaches to engaging and treating clients of all ages who present with complex issues. Her approach is integrative combining techniques and approaches from: Art and Expressive Therapy, EMDR Therapy, IFS and Ego State therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Progressive Counting, mindfulness practices, Hypnosis, Attachment Focused Therapy, and Play Therapy. She currently serves as Director of Intake for the Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute in Western Massachusetts . As Director Elizabeth is involved in training, research, consultation, supervision, and intensive therapy. Elizabeth also conducts trainings in Attachment and Dissociation Assessment and Treatment, Integrating Art Therapy Techniques and EMDR with Complex Clients, Advanced Methods for Intensive Trauma Focused Therapy.

Elizabeth is EMDR certified through Emdria and a Consultant and EMDR Trainer. She is level one certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Hypnosis through ASCH, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), play therapy, sand tray, and attachment assessment utilizing the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and has completed Level 2 training in Internal Family Systems (IFS). Elizabeth has published multiple chapters including in EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An Integrated Approach (2020) edited by Beckly–Forest & Monaco, (Springer), and in 2023 (Rutledge) “EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies” co-edited by Davis. Fitzgerald, Jacobs, and Marchan. She is currently a member of the Board of International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), Co-Chair for the EMDR Special Interest Group and past Secretary of the Creative Arts Therapies SIG.