About
Magdalena is an art therapist, educator, group facilitator & artist:
I am created from a mix of cultures, and benefit from many privileges: light skin, middle-class, able-body passing, post-graduate education, and a US citizen with a passport. Since 2006, I have lived in O’Gah P’Ogeh Owingeh, the unceded territory of Tewa-speaking people, also known as Santa Fe, New Mexico. I am a cis-woman and queer mama with two children.
I have worked in a number of organizations that serve diverse humans including: Youth Shelters, working with unhoused / teens in transition, whose cultural backgrounds ranged, Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences, where I created the School Counselor position, and the Art Director of Tomorrow’s Women working with Palestinian and Israeli youth during our international summer intensive camp.
I supervise Arts-Based and Somatic Focused Therapists based in New Mexico.
From 2012-2022, I was the professor of multiple courses at Southwestern College.
During many of those years I was also in charge of curriculum development and course leadership for:
Professional Ethics in Art Therapy & Counseling, Multicultural Perspectives in Art Therapy & Counseling, Materials & Techniques in Art Therapy, Arts-Based Research, History of Art Therapy, Theories in Art Therapy, and Group Dynamics.
Schooling:
BA in Community Learning & Development, NYU
MA in Art Therapy & Counseling, Southwestern College
Trained in Somatic Experiencing, through Peter Levine's SE Trauma Institute
Trained in Sandplay by the NM Sandplay Society
Trained in Psychodrama & Action Methods, Southwestern College
Training in Ecotherapy, Southwestern College
Post-Graduate Certificate in Expressive Arts, European Graduate School
Pursuing a PhD in Expressive Arts, European Graduate School
Licenses and Certifications:
ATR-BC (Board Certified Art Therapist, National): 11-125
SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner)
LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, New Mexico): 0146971
Magdalena is currently offering:
Supervision
Community Health Consultation & Group Facilitation
Art Therapy & Somatic Counseling
Commissioned Artwork
I am created from a mix of cultures, and benefit from many privileges: light skin, middle-class, able-body passing, post-graduate education, and a US citizen with a passport. Since 2006, I have lived in O’Gah P’Ogeh Owingeh, the unceded territory of Tewa-speaking people, also known as Santa Fe, New Mexico. I am a cis-woman and queer mama with two children.
I have worked in a number of organizations that serve diverse humans including: Youth Shelters, working with unhoused / teens in transition, whose cultural backgrounds ranged, Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences, where I created the School Counselor position, and the Art Director of Tomorrow’s Women working with Palestinian and Israeli youth during our international summer intensive camp.
I supervise Arts-Based and Somatic Focused Therapists based in New Mexico.
From 2012-2022, I was the professor of multiple courses at Southwestern College.
During many of those years I was also in charge of curriculum development and course leadership for:
Professional Ethics in Art Therapy & Counseling, Multicultural Perspectives in Art Therapy & Counseling, Materials & Techniques in Art Therapy, Arts-Based Research, History of Art Therapy, Theories in Art Therapy, and Group Dynamics.
Schooling:
BA in Community Learning & Development, NYU
MA in Art Therapy & Counseling, Southwestern College
Trained in Somatic Experiencing, through Peter Levine's SE Trauma Institute
Trained in Sandplay by the NM Sandplay Society
Trained in Psychodrama & Action Methods, Southwestern College
Training in Ecotherapy, Southwestern College
Post-Graduate Certificate in Expressive Arts, European Graduate School
Pursuing a PhD in Expressive Arts, European Graduate School
Licenses and Certifications:
ATR-BC (Board Certified Art Therapist, National): 11-125
SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner)
LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, New Mexico): 0146971
Magdalena is currently offering:
Supervision
Community Health Consultation & Group Facilitation
Art Therapy & Somatic Counseling
Commissioned Artwork
