Debra Linesch, Ph.D., M.F.T, A.T.R-B.C
Dr. Linesch has been a faculty member and supervisor since 1988 and is currently Department Chair. She worked for several years at Vista Del Mar Child Care Services, Dubnoff Center for Child Development and in private practice. She is the author of numerous professional articles and two clinical textbooks, Adolescent Art Therapy and Art Therapy with Families in Crisis. Her newest book, Celebrating Family Milestones Through Making Art Together, was written to introduce the art therapy process to families outside of clinical settings. Dr. Linesch's recent scholarly work continues to support the development of methodologies specific to art therapy research.

E- mail to: dlinesch@lmu.edu

Paige Asawa, Ph.D., M.F.T, A.T.R.-B.C.
Dr. Asawa has been a faculty member since 1998. She received her doctorate from the Union Institute & University, 2003.  She received her Master's degree in Marital and Family Therapy from the LMU program where she was the Helen Landgarten Scholar of 1992.   In 1994 she co-authored A History of Art Therapy in the United States. Since 1992, she has been in private practice and currently has an office in the South Bay. In her practice, she utilizes art therapy with individuals, couples, and groups.

E-mail to: pasawa@lmu.edu

Faculty Emeriti

Helen B. Landgarten, M.A., M.F.T., A.T.R.-H.L.M.
Ms. Landgarten is the founder and former chair of the department. Her books include Clinical Art Therapy, Family Art Psychotherapy, Adult Art Psychotherapy and Magazine Photo Collage: A Multicultural Assessment and Treatment Technique.

Maxine Borowsky Junge, Ph.D., L.C.S.W, A.T.R-H.L.M.
Dr. Junge has been an educator and clinician for over 20 years and is former chair of the department. Her publications include "Women and Creativity: Including Case Studies of Frida Kahlo and Diane Arbus," "Feminine Imagery and a Young Woman's Search for Identity," A History of Art Therapy in the United States, and Creative Realities: The Search for Meanings, a study of creativity of visual artists and writers. Dr. Junge was recently awarded Honorary Life Membership in the American Art Therapy Association.

E-mail to: mbjunge@whidbey.net

Staff

Lori Gloyd, M.A.
Ms. Gloyd is the Graduate Division Adminstrative Assistant for the Marital and Family Therapy program and has worked for the department for a number of years.

E-mail to: lgloyd@lmu.edu

Janet Carnay, M.A., A.T.R., M.F.T.
Janet Carnay has received two Master's degree: LMU's M.A. in Marital and Family Therapy and New York University's M.A. in Educational Psychology. She was the recipient of the Helen Landgarten Scholar Award from LMU in 1997 and taught Group Dynamics for the department in the same year. As well as being a professional artist for twenty years, Ms. Carnay has extensive artist-in-residence teaching experience in non-profit, therapeutic schools both in Los Angeles and New York City. Ms. Carnay has initiated conferences focusing on the impact of changing roles and relationships with the family, particularly on women's lives and self-esteem. She is co-author of The Jewish Woman's Awareness Guide (1992), a facilitator's manual for small groups exploring identity formation. Currently, Ms. Carnay works at the Julia Ann Singer Center providing counseling to at-risk minority children in a family-oriented treatment center and teaches LMU's Cultural Issues class.

Vallerie Coleman, Ph.D.
Val Coleman received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles in 1990. She has been in private practice in Santa Monica since she became licensed as a Psychologist in 1992. In addition to her private practice, Dr. Coleman conducts mental health assessments on children and adolescents in Special Education, provides volunteer super vision for the Gay and Lesbian Center, and has been an invited lecturer at conferences, universities, and mental health settings. She has taught Human Sexuality courses for the LMU program since 1996.

Rita Coufal, Psy.D., M.F.T, A.T.R.
Rita Coufal, a native Canadian, received her Master's degree in Clinical Art Therapy from Loyola Marymount University in 1986, and became a registered Art Therapist and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist is 1988. She has been a practicum supervisor and guest lecturer in this department since 1988 and joined the part-time faculty in 1994. Dr. Coufal has been on the faculty of the Graduate Department of Social Welfare at U.C.L.A., teaching Clinical Art Therapy. As an art therapy consultant at CPC Westwood Hospital, she worked with inpatient and outpatient adults in individual and group treatment. In addition, she has developed and facilitated prevention/treatment programs for at-risk minority youth and their families in a community mental health setting. An invited lecturer at universities, conferences and mental health settings, Dr. Coufal is in private practice in Santa Monica and received her doctorate at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis this past spring. She teaches both the Psychopathology and Adult Art Psychotherapy courses for LMU's program.

Carla Jean Cross, M.A., A.T.R.,-B.C., M.F.T.
Carla Cross received her B.S. in psychology and kinesiology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1982. With a compelling interest in art, she spent the next ten years working in art galleries and ultimately established her own corporate art consulting firm, The Cross Collection. She was responsible for making art publicly visible by providing fine art to corporate collections and television shows such as L.A. Law and Days of Our Lives. In 1993 Carla completed graduate work at Loyola Marymount University, receiving her M.A. in Marital and Family Therapy . She has provided clinical art therapy at institutions such as Prototypes, The H.E.L.P. Group, CPC Rancho Linda Hospital, and Optimum Care Inc./Sherman Oaks Hospital working with chronically mentally ill adults, women recovering from substance abuse, and children and their families. Carla holds her current position at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center--Thalians Mental Health Center. At Cedars-Sinai, Carla serves as a Mental Health Clinician in the family and child clinic, and Supervisor of the Art Therapy Fellowship program. She continues to maintain her private practice in Santa Clarita where she treats children and families and supervises clinical art therapy students from Loyola Marymount University. Carla's areas of specialty include diagnosis and treatment of ADHD, child custody evaluations, children's crisis counseling, and treatment of child abuse. She has shared her knowledge and experience with physicians, clinicians, and the public through various lectures and presentations to the community

Erica Curtis, M.A., A.T.R., M.F.T.I.
Erica Curtis graduated from LMU’s Marital and Family Therapy Master’s Program as the recipient of the Helen Landgarten Scholar Award.  She has since been a guest lecturer at both LMU and a fine arts college in Los Angeles and served as an art therapy consultant for program development at a Riverside adult day care facility.  Currently, Ms. Curtis works in a therapeutic school-based setting for the Help Group, a nonprofit agency, where she has worked extensively with children and adolescents with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and other Social Learning Disabilities.  There, she provides individual and family art therapy and facilitates the parent support group.  Ms. Curtis has been active in the reorganization of the Southern California Art Therapy Association and is currently serving her third year on its board of directors as president.

Kathleen Fogel-Richmond, M.A., M.F.T., A.T.R.
Ms. Fogel-Richmond is a 1995 graduate of LMU's art therapy program. She is currently an art therapist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center doing art therapy in its outpatient geriatric program. In addition, she works at Inter Community Child Guidance Center doing group art therapy with children. She has been supervising LMU students in their practica since 1996 and is currently teaching Group Dynamics.

Joellen Lapidus, Psy.D., MFT
Dr. Lapidus is a marriage and family therapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in West Los Angeles.

Philip Levin, Ph.D.
Dr. Levin received his doctoral degree from the California School of Professional Psychology. He completed his internship at the H.E.L.P Group, a community mental health center serving children and adolescents. He currently has a private practice and is interested in the emerging trend of assessing non-verbal learning disabilities. He teaches "Psychological Testing" in the LMU art therapy program.

Jane Schulman, M.A., A.T.R., L.M.F.T.
Jane Schulman is a 1982 graduate of the Clinical Art Therapy program at LMU. From 1987 to 1994, she was a part-time faculty member of the program, teaching Group Dynamics, and then Psychopathology and Adult Art Psychotherapy. From 1987 to 1999, Ms. Schulman was on the faculty at California State University, Los Angeles, teaching in that school's art therapy program. A registered Art Therapist and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Ms. Schulman has worked primarily in private practice with children, adolescents, adults, and families. Through the years, she has also valued the opportunity to work with adults with persistent mental illness, individually and in groups, in inpatient and partial hospitalization programs. She recently completed a year-long certificate program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. Ms. Schulman is also a fine art photographer and is interested in the expressive and therapeutic use of photography and writing. She returns to LMU this year to teach Group Dynamics.

Brian Ura, M.A., MFT, ATR
Mr. Ura works as an art therapist and clinical coordinator at the Sherman Oaks Partial Hospitalization Program.

Madoka Urhausen, M.A., LMFT, ATR
Ms. Urhausen is a 1999 graduate of the LMU program and has a private practice in Long Beach. She is also the clinical site manager of the Long Beach office at Pacific Asian Counseling Services.