ATCB Board of Directors

2010 Board of Directors

Deborah A. Good, Ph.D, ATR-BC: President
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Good Deborah A. Good lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She holds a Masters Degree in Art Therapy and a Doctorate in Counseling from the University of New Mexico. She is a Registered and Board Certified Art Therapist, and state licensed as a Professional Art Therapist and Clinical Counselor . Deborah is a Past President of the American Art Therapy Association as well as a Past-President of the New Mexico Art Therapy Association. Deborah is employed by Family Therapy of Albuquerque, Inc. where she predominately works with adults and couples. She also supervises the practice of several art therapy and counseling professionals. She wrote and lobbied the first art therapy licensure bill in the county, which became law in New Mexico in 1994, and has served as the model for similar legislation in other states. Deborah speaks internationally and has written several invited chapters for recent art therapy and counseling books. Her professional interests span varied topics from PTSD to assessment, legal issues, ethics and spirituality within the therapy professions. She founded and directed the art therapy program at Southwestern College from 1989 to 1999 and continues to consult with a variety of colleges and universities in the United States and internationally.

Deborah was elected to serve as a director on the ATCB in 2004. She chose to become involved with the credentialing board because of her long-term interest in promoting and protecting the profession of art therapy, and ultimately the public, through professional regulation and credentialing. She feels passionately about the quality of art therapy services being rendered to clients and the ethical value of post-graduate experience, education and supervision.

Penelope P. Orr, Ph.D., ATR-BC: President-Elect
Fairview, Pennsylvania
Penny Orr 2008

Penny Orr is a Registered and Board Certified art therapist currently working as an assistant professor at Edinboro University. Penny received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Furman University and a Master of Arts in Art Therapy from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her Ph.D. from Purdue University. She provides art therapy services to students in alternative school settings and through her private practice. During her career, Penny has provided clinical art therapy services to diverse populations in medical and behavioral health settings. Penny has sat on the AATA Ethics committee, and is currently the chair of the Research Committee. Penny worked at Florida State University as an assistant professor from 2003-2008. During that time she served as a practicum supervisor,technical coordinator, and educator for the program. Penny has been active in state associations in South Carolina, Florida, and Pennsylvania. She has published and presented extensively on the role of technology within art therapy practice and work with special populations within alternative school systems.

Bill More, ATR-BC: Secretary
Woodbridge, Connecticut
More Bill More is a Registered and Board Certified art therapist who received his MA in art therapy from the George Washington University. Currently retired, Bill worked for 30 years at the Yale Psychiatric Institute as an art therapist while also serving in a variety of administrative, positions culminating with Director of Rehabilitation Services. After leaving Yale in 2000, Bill spent six years on the faculty of the Masters of Arts in Art Therapy (MAAT) program at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut including three years as Director. Currently Bill is remaining active in his retirement as an Adjunct Instructor in the MAAT program. He has served on the AATA Board of Directors and on a variety of AATA committees including the Strategic Planning Committee and as Chair of the Scholarships and Grants Committee. Locally, Bill has served as President-Elect and President of the Connecticut Art Therapy Association. He has been part of several panel presentations at AATA conferences focused on brief art therapy treatment.

Bill’s first introduction to the ATCB was in 2005 when he served as a consultant to the Board for strategic planning. Impressed with what he saw, Bill joined the board in 2006 not only to work with strategic planning, but also on ensuring the quality of the BC exam and the proper use of art therapy credentials. To that end, he has served as Board Liaison to the Certification Committee and as Chair of the Oversight Committee for the 2007 Job Analysis conducted to ensure the validity of the BC exam to the current practice of art therapy. A quality certification exam is vital to the ATCB mission of protecting the public by promoting the competent and ethical practice of art therapy.

David Gussak, Ph.D, ATR-BC: Treasurer
Tallahassee, Florida
Gussak David Gussak, PhD, ATR-BC, is currently an Associate Professor and Clinical Coordinator for the Florida State University program. He also has a private art therapy practice. David has been practicing for 16 years, received his ATR in 1994, and his ATR-BC in 1996. David has served the ATCB twice as a member of the Standards Setting Committee, member of the nominating committee one year, and has written questions for the exam. Since September 2006, David has been ATCB’s Strategic Planning Consultant. David’s involvement with the American Art Therapy Association is extensive and includes, but is not limited to member of Art Therapy: Journal of the AATA editorial board for 4 years, elected Board Director for 4 years, chair of Legal Search committee for 1 year, and the Governmental Affairs Chair for 3 years. He has also been active in the state associations in California, Kansas and Florida. He has been awarded: Outstanding Member by the Kansas Art Therapy Association, Distinguished Person Award by the Northern California Art Therapy Association, and received the Journal of Allied Health Distinguished Author award. David has recently been appointed chair of a statewide committee to develop the Florida Arts in Corrections Program.

David Henien: Public Member
Raleigh, North Carolina
heinenphoto David Heinen is the director of public policy and advocacy for the N.C. Center for Nonprofits. In this role, he advocates on issues affecting North Carolina’s nonprofit sector, monitors and analyzes federal and state issues affecting nonprofits, keeps nonprofits across North Carolina informed about important legal and policy developments, provides training on nonprofit advocacy and legal compliance, and convenes coalitions of nonprofits from diverse fields. David began his service as ATCB’s Public Member in 2008.

Previously, David spent seven years as an attorney with Dorn & Klamp, P.C., a Washington, D.C. law firm serving the nonprofit community. In this practice, he worked with a variety of board certification programs, advising them on legal matters such as ethics issues, board governance, ADA compliance, state licensure issues, tax compliance, intellectual property issues, contract review and negotiation, and HIPAA compliance. He feel strongly that successful credentialing boards such as ATCB play an essential role in protecting the public by establishing high standards for competent and ethical practice in mental health fields.

Stephanie Wise, ATR-BC: Director
Wyoming, Pennsylvania
Wise- smallfile Stephanie Wise, a Registered and Board Certified art therapist, currently teaches at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. After 25 years as a professional artist, Ms. Wise decided to become an art therapist and acquired the necessary education and training to do so. Early on, she began specializing in the field of trauma, which has enabled her to pursue art therapy within the United States and abroad--most recently in the Middle East. She has written chapters on art therapy, presented at professional conferences, founded a children's program post 9/11, and taught at New York University. She is both a national crisis intervention specialist and a core member of the ArtReach Foundation team which does national and international work with classroom teachers working with children who have been traumatized.

Susan Ainlay Anand, ATR-BC
Flora, Mississippi

Susan Ainlay Anand, ATR-BC, joined the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1987 after receiving her MA in Art Therapy from New York University. her clinical interests relate to art therapy of medically ill and psychiatric patients, and she has published accounts of this work in the literature. In addition to her work at the UMMC, Susan Provides art therapy services to Catholic Charities, Inc. and the Hederman cancer Center in Jackson. She has been a member of the Nominating, Program, Scholarship, and Honors Committees for AATA. For six years she served as State liaison for the Governmental Affairs committee and is current chair of the Nominating committee. On the state level, Susan serves as chair of the GAC and Program Committee for the Mississippi Art Therapy Association, and was the founding president of this organization. She was instrumental in achieving legislation to license the profession of art therapy in Mississippi. Susan conducts training workshops both locally and nationally and frequently travels to India to visit her family. Susan's interest in serving on the ATCB is tied to her first-hand experience of achieving licensure for art therapists in her state. Both registration and board certification credentials provided the necessary standards required for licensure and are used by the state of Mississippi to protect consumers of art therapy services, establish minimum qualifications for Professional Art Therapists, and create exclusive titles for individuals who wish to perform art therapy.

Debra Paskind, ATR-BC: Director
Chicago, Illinois
Debra Paskind, ATR-BC, has worked in a variety of clinical settings and is currently an art therapy educator for the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, where she advises art therapy students, acts as liaison for the development of practicum sites and the placement of students for clinical practicum, advising the Adler School Art Therapy Student Association, and assists with long-range planning for the Art Therapy program. Debra's impressive clinical experience includes seven years of art therapy services to children and youth in residential care and in a group home for girls while at Rice child and Family Services in Evanston, Illinois, and eleven years with the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities where she worked with acutely ill psychiatric in-patients. Over the past seventeen years, Debra has taught in an adjunctive and then full-time capacity, teaching in two masters programs and also in a program designed for professionals in allied fields who were interested in learning about art therapy. Currently, as a member of the art therapy faculty of a school of professional psychology, Debra states that "the reputation of the ATCB and the process for receiving and maintaining our credentials are recognized as standard." As a member and past-president of the Illinois Art Therapy Association, Debra has "been aware of the positive influence of Art Therapy Credentials Board on practitioners and employers over years." Debra appreciates the strides taht ATCB and the profession have made and is happy to be actively involved in the organization's next steps.

Libby Schmanke, ATR-BC: Director
Oskaloosa, Kansas

Libby Schmanke, ATR-BC, enjoys an active teaching career. Since 2002, she has held a half-time faculty position in the gradate art therapy program of Emporia State University. In addition, she teaches an undergraduate course in art therapy at Washburn University in Topeka, and a class on Creativity and Aging for the Osher Institute at the University of Kansas. Libby has a private practice in art therapy and art studio, Art & Insite, in Lawrence, KS. She specializes in women resolving childhood abuse issues and adolescent girls with anxiety or adjustment issues. Libby also provides weekly creative groups, art exploration workshops and ATR supervision. In partnership with a local nonprofit, she provides art therapy at Haskell Indian Nations University. Prior to earning her master's in art therapy, Libby had a 14-year career in substance abuse counseling and program administration, and maintains her substance abuse counselor certification. She is a lifelong artists and exhibits regularly in the Lawrence area. Libby is active in the Kansas Art Therapy Association, and has given scores of presentations about art therapy, locally and at the AATA conferences. Libby has served on the ATCB Certification Committee for the past five years, the last two of those as chairperson. She highly values the art therapy registration and board certification credentialing as indicators of achievement and distinction in our unique profession.