ATCB Board of Directors

Penny Orr is a Registered and Board Certified art therapist, and Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, 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.

Ed Oechslie, ATR-BC, ATCS, is Executive Director of a 501(c)3 non-intensive outpatient counseling center treating addictions and related mental health disorders which is committed to promoting art therapy as a unique and valuable offering for the treatment of trauma and addictions. In addition to the agency duties, Ed also supervises art therapy interns.

Ed received his Masters Degree in Art Therapy from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2000. He received his ATR within one year and his ATR-BC within two years of graduation. He was licensed in 2001 in New Mexico as a professional art therapist (currently inactive), and is currently licensed in Maine as a Professional Clinical Counselor (since 2003) and Certified as a Clinical Supervisor (2010). Ed is trained in Motivational Interviewing and has interests in utilizing art therapy in the treatment of trauma, presenting many times in the local, regional and national level on the topic. Along with experience in art therapy and in non-profit work, Ed brings to the Board knowledge of marketing, specifications writing, project management, and collaboration, all of which he enjoys using in the service of the art therapy profession.

Susan Ainlay Anand, ATR-BC, ATCS, 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 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 past 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.

Libby Schmanke, ATR-BC, enjoys an active teaching career. Since 2002, she has held a half-time faculty position in the graduate 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.

Janice Hoshino, Ph.D., ATR-BC, ATCS, holds a Masters Degree in Art Therapy from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Doctorate Degree in Psychology, with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy from the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant University (formally United States International University). She is a Registered and Board Certified art therapist, a state licensed marriage and family therapist, and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor.

Janice is Chair of Art and Expressive Therapies at Antioch University Seattle. Her research interests include multicultural issues with couples and families, art therapy with marginalized populations (such as interned Japanese-Americans from World War II), couples issues (such as infidelity) and art therapy. Dr. Hoshino has a private practice working primarily with couples. Her vast clinical experience spans 28 years. Prior to teaching at Antioch, she taught at Emporia State University and Marywood University. Among her numerous publications, she is the author of a key family art therapy text, Family Art Therapy: Foundations for Theory and Practice.

Mary Ellen McAlevey works for Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch as Intake Coordinator in their adult partial hospitalization program. She is a graduate of Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Past-President of the New Jersey Art Therapy Association, she is a Board Certified, Registered art therapist, an Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, an Approved Clinical Supervisor, and a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of New Jersey. She has presented nationally for American Art Therapy Association conferences and the National Conference on Tobacco or Health, and locally for NJATA, the DVATA, the New Jersey Counselors Association, the National Association of Social Workers-New Jersey chapter, Art Educators of New Jersey, Rutgers University School of Social Work, Rutgers University Summer Institute of Alcohol and Drug Studies, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, to name a few. She is an adjunct faculty member at Caldwell College.

Mary Ellen is the past chair of the American Art Therapy Association Continuing Education Committee, is a member of the American Art Therapy Association annual conference program committee and an APA reviewer. She has been appointed by the Art Therapy Credentials Board to serve as a Director for the 2011-2012 term. She is a doctoral student in Psychiatric Rehabilitation at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She has a private practice in Toms River.

Carolyn Brown Treadon is a Registered and Board Certified art therapist currently working as a visiting assistant professor at Florida State University and serving as an adjunct faculty member at Thomas University. Carolyn received a Bachelor of Science and Fine Art degrees from Ohio University, Master of Arts in Expressive Therapy from The University of Louisville and a Ph.D. from Florida State University. Before beginning teaching, Carolyn provided art therapy services in alternative schools and out-patient settings before becoming clinical supervisor of a community based mental health clinic. During that time, she supervised art therapy interns as well as interns from other disciplines. She has published research on utilizing art museums in the therapeutic process and using art therapy process to alter individual’s perceptions and attitudes toward individuals with disabilities.  Carolyn continues to explore how using resources such as the museum and other experience based practices can be utilized to further students’ knowledge acquisition during their training to become art therapists. 

Barbara Mescher lives in Los Angeles, California. She holds a Master’s Degree in Art Therapy from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She received her BA in psychology from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where she is from originally. She has been a Registered Art Therapist since 1989, and is also Board Certified.  Most recently, she earned the ATCS (Art Therapy Credentialed Supervisor).  Barbara has been licensed in California since 1991 as a Marriage and Family Therapist and is a past president of the Southern California Art Therapy Association. Barbara is an Assistant Clinical Director at the Help Group Child and Family Center in Culver City, where she also supervises MFT Interns and ASW Associates working toward state licensure as well as other licensed clinicians.  Barbara is also on the faculty of Loyola Marymount University and supervises first and second year art therapy /MFT students. Her professional experience includes work as an art therapist on the psychiatric units of full service hospitals with adults, eating disorder patients, as well as children and adolescents.  She has worked with domestic violence survivors at battered women’s shelters and with adolescents in residential treatment, and at a drop in shelter in Hollywood. She has also maintained a private practice. Barbara is dedicated to the growth of the profession of art therapy and strongly believes in on-going supervision and the art therapy credential for supervisors. She chose to become involved with the Art Therapy Credentials Board because of her long-term interest in promoting the profession of art therapy, protecting clients, and educating the public through professional regulation and credentialing.

Since 1991, attorney Jennifer Stone has represented and advised health care facilities, physicians and other health professionals in all aspects of their operations, including business planning, compliance, contracting, credentialing, licensing, regulatory matters, and litigation. Jennifer brings to ATCB a wealth of experience in general health law practice, organizational legal oversight, and an overarching interest in public protection.

Jennifer’s past experience includes serving as general counsel and deputy cabinet secretary for the New Mexico Department of Health. In these roles, Jennifer’s work ranged from managing all litigation brought against or involving the Department of Health to overseeing regulatory compliance, accreditation activities, facility governance activities, emergency preparedness, patient care coordination, billing and payment activities, and interaction with various regulatory agencies and legislators.