The Helen B. Landgarten Art Therapy Clinic
The Helen B. Landgarten Art Therapy Clinic is an essential component to the LMU Marital and Family Therapy graduate program. The clinic’s mission is to serve the community by offering art therapy interventions to underserved children and families who have experienced trauma or are facing serious obstacles in life. The clinic contracts with outreach programs, schools and other organizations to provide mental health services to underserved communities.
Clinic leadership coordinates and delivers art therapy services to local communities, providing valuable training opportunities for the department’s graduate student trainees. Services are offered by licensed art therapists and by students under the supervision of licensed professionals.
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Services for the Community
Since 2007, the HBL Art Therapy Clinic has provided diverse art therapy services that range in clinical intensity in partnership with a wealth of community organizations across Los Angeles County and beyond.
Featured: Summer Arts Workshop
LMU’s Summer Arts Workshop is an art therapy-based workshop aimed at using intentional visual art experiences to explore and increase positive cultural identity with adolescents from under-resourced areas of Los Angeles. The workshop is a weeklong curriculum led by art therapy graduate students, supervised by LMU MFT/Art Therapy faculty and alumni, that engages youth in a cumulative art making task that culminates in a final exhibition for the community.
The program has impacted upwards of 500 young people and their families. Original participants and facilitators still remain active contributors, indicating the quality of connection brought forth.
Success Stories
Additional Community Services
Groups for Those Diagnosed with Cancer
These open and closed groups are offered to people who have had a cancer diagnosis. Services are facilitated both virtually and in-person.
Collaborative Divorce Clinic
This collaboration with the Loyola School Law brings MFT/Art Therapy students and faculty together with law students, faculty, and professionals to support modest-means couples engaged in the Collaborative Divorce process.
Support Groups for Pregnant and Parenting Teens
These art therapy groups provide opportunities for teens to offer and receive peer support, explore multiple aspects of their identities, and move through personal challenges and practice coping strategies.
Workshops and Team Building
These art workshops are offered to teams or departments to promote well-being through arts-based team building.
Landgarten Family Art Assessment
HBL ATC consultants utilize Helen Landgarten's evidence-based protocol to observe families making art together to optimize treatment for outside family therapists.
Veterans Support
These community-based weekly Open Art Studios take place on the West LA VA Campus.
Non-Clinical Sites Across LA
Individual, Family and Group Therapy are provided on school campuses, at shelters, and community and support centers and organizations.
Arts and Wellness Programs
The Clinic provides Arts and Wellness programs on the LMU campus for students, staff and faculty. Programming includes participation in the university’s “Wellness Wednesday,” ”Feel Good Finals,” and Open Art Studios
Community Partners
The HBL Art Therapy Clinic has partnered with a wide range of community organizations throughout Los Angeles and beyond, engaging schools, nonprofits, and mental health agencies in collaborative projects. These past and present partnerships have expanded the clinic’s reach, deepened its impact, and created meaningful opportunities for students, families, and community members to access art therapy services.
Current Partners
- Arts & Healing Initiative
- Catholic Schools Collaborative
- Cedars-Sinai Cancer Wellness, Resilience and Survivorship
- LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts
- Loyola Law School Center for Conflict Resolution
- Maple Counseling
- Odyssey Charter Schools
- Piece by Piece
- Thomas Riley High School
- UCLA/VA Veteran Family Wellbeing Center
Past Partners
- Airport Marina Counseling Center
- American Red Cross, Los Angeles
- Boys and Girls Club of Monrovia
- Daniel’s Place
- Free Arts for Abused Children
- LMU Family of Schools
- New Directions for Veterans Program at Veterans Administration
- Orville Wright Middle School
- Save the Children
- University of California, Irvine Veteran Services
- Wellnest
- Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center
- Central Juvenile Hall High School
- Martin Luther King Community Hospital
Clinic Leadership
Jessica Bianchi
Ed.D., LMFT, ATR-BC
Clinical Director
Naomi Tucker
LMFT, ATR-BC
Assistant Director
Kathleen Fogel-Richmond
LMFT, ATR-BC
Practicum Coordinator
Amber Cromwell
LMFT, ATR-BC
Program Director & Clinical Supervisor
Nephthys Resurreccion
LMFT, ATR-BC
Program Director & Clinical Supervisor
Meg Lewis
LMFT, ATR-BC
Program Director & Clinical Supervisor
Jose Cabrera
LMFT, ATR-BC
Clinical Supervisor
Melly Trochez
LMFT, ATR
Clinical Supervisor
Clara Konzevik
LMFT, ATR-BC
Clinical Supervisor
Stefanie Rodewald
LMFT, ATR-BC
Supervision Consultation
Jillian Luz
LMFT, ATR-BC
Clinician
Nicole Sherrod
LMFT, ATR-BC
Clinician
Clinic Council
The Clinic Council provides Clinic Leadership with advice, community connections and philanthropic support to advance the mission of the Helen B Landgarten Art Therapy Clinic: to serve the community with clinical art therapy interventions to underserved children and families who have experienced trauma or are facing serious obstacles in life.