Emily Black, LPC, ATR-BC

Emily Black, LPC, ATR-BC, is the director of Visual Arts and Residential Undergraduate Art Therapy. She teaches in BA Visual Arts, BA Art Therapy, and MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Transpersonal Art-Based Counseling concentration. A multidisciplinary artist, Emily’s current work spans figure painting, textile art, musical composition, and writing, and emphasizes the process in the product, contemplative awareness, and female subjectivity. As a licensed professional counselor and board-certified art therapist, Emily maintains a private practice working with teens and adults. She integrates relational psychoanalysis, CBT, mindfulness-based approaches, and Jungian individuation in treating trauma, OCD, and anxiety. Originally from the Boston area, Emily has a lifelong commitment to the intersections of social justice and contemplative practice. She was a youth advocate for queer rights, an AmeriCorps volunteer in Boston public schools, and spent eight years advancing equity in healthcare access, most recently at the Sutherland Bipolar Center. She is passionate about contemplative pedagogy, nurturing the artist identity in art therapists, and fostering intersubjectivity in visual arts education.