DocSusan's presentations draw on diverse and evolving experience and expertise. Her published books are a testimony to her contributions in the field of expressive arts therapies. Her upcoming publications and on-going artmaking projects show a growing range of skills, interests, and sympathies.
DocSusan is available to give presentations both in the Toronto area and internationally, on a variety of topics. These include (but are not limited to):
- Expressive arts therapies and creativity
- Food's pleasures and pains
- Practical tips and necessities
- Singles and relationships
- Travel and relocation
- Writing for personal and professional development
- Everyday creativity
- Artmaking for travel
Are you aware? "Art Therapy" has been added to the National Institutes of Health's professional career database. Also, CareerBuilders.com, a leading US job recruitment service, named art therapist as one of the "ten hot jobs for 2007." In 2006, a flurry of references to art therapy’s benefits appeared in US national and regional news items and articles. Medical, educational, and arts establishments, as well as the general public, are paying more attention to creative arts processes' healing and life enhancing powers. Both the American Art Therapy Association and the Canadian Art Therapy Association offer more detailed information and resources.
©Susan R. Makin, 2008