ASSOCIATIONS and REPRESENTATIVES
María Sol Guerrero
President of DAr. Co-director of Diploma in Drama Therapy at the National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. Psychiatrist, pursuing her PhD in Medicine.
DAr
Argentina Dramatherapy Association
Joanna Jaaniste, PhD, AThR (Drama)
Principal of the Dramatherapy Centre in Sydney. Career Development Fellow at Western Sydney University.
ANZACATA
Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association
NILGUN TURKCAN ATAOGLU, PhD
Registered Drama Therapist/Board Certified Trainer
Founder and Director of Creative Arts Therapy Institute in Turkey, Supervisor and Lecturer at Isik University. Turkish Creative Arts Therapies Institute.
YST
Turkish Creative Arts Therapies Institute
Stelios Krasanakis, MD
Founding member and member of the board of Directors of European Federation of Dramatherapy. Lecturer in National and Kapodisrtian University of Athens. Founder and Training Director of the Dramatherapy program at Institute AEON. Member of the board of Directors of Hellenic Psychiatrist Association and President of the branch "Art and Psychiatry".
EFD
European Federation of Dramatherapy. Including: Germany, Italy, Belgium, United Kingdom, Greece, Romania, Czech Republic, France, Latvia, Poland, Switzerland, Portugal, Israel (special member), Norway, Netherlands and Slovenia
Majid Amraei, PhD
Chair of Iranian Psychodrama and Drama Therapy Association. Faculty at Applied Scientific and Cultural Center, Cultural Heritage University. Workshop Instructor at Allameh Tabataba'i University and Al-Zahra. Author, Director, Researcher.
park Mi-ri, PhD
President of KADT. Director of the Drama Therapy Program at Yong-in University.
KADT
Korean Association of Drama Therapy
Josiah Stickels, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT
President of the NADTA. Registered Drama Therapist/Board Certified Trainer through the NADTA. Program manager at UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital & Clinics. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Graduate of the Drama Therapy program at the California Institute of Integral Studies with his master’s in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Drama Therapy.
NADTA
North American Drama Therapy Association
Nisha Sajnani, PhD, RDT-BCT
Director of the Drama Therapy Program and Theatre & Health Lab at New York University. Editor-in-Chief of Drama Therapy Review. Dr. Sajnani initiated the founding of the World Alliance of Dramatherapy. NYU Drama Therapy plays a coordinating role in facilitating the activities of the World Alliance.
NYU
New York University
Paula Kingwill
Dramatherapist at Reconnect on the Rest. Documentary filmmaker and farmer. Founding member and director of the Bonfire Theatre Company.
SAAD
South African Association of Dramatherapists
Ravindra Ranasinha, PhD
Course Director of Drama Therapy Certification Program, Sri Lanka. Director of Research Centre of Dramatherapy, Sri Lanka.
SLADth
Sri Lanka Association for Dramatherapists
Susana Pendzik, PhD, RDT
Head of the MA Program of Tel-Hai Academic College. Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Drama Therapy Institute of Switzerland.
YAHAT
The Association for Arts Therapies in Israel
Pedro Torres, MD, ICHTF
President of ANADRAS. Psychiatrist, family systems therapist, drama therapist, and psychodramatist. Professor at the University of Chile. Director and founder of EDRAS, and president and founder of TeatroSalud.
ANADRAS
The Chilean Dramatherapy Association
Akeyo Onoe,
RDT-BCT
Professor at Graduate School of Human Science at Ritsumeikan University. Lecturer at Tokyo University. Drama Therapy Education and Research Center in Japan.
JDTI
Japan drama therapy institute
Mika Lee,
MA, RDT, LCAT, LCP(Taiwan)
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Registered Drama Therapist with NADTA. New York State Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, USA
Licensed Counseling Psychologist, Taiwan. Founding Member/ Representative of Taiwan Drama Therapy Association
TDTA
taiwan drama therapy association
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Drama Therapy representative to the Kenya Counselling and Psychological Association, Committee member for the Cultural Humility and Diversity Committee of the NATDA, member of the board for the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed (PTO) as well as International Expressive arts Association (EXA).
Educator at USIU-Africa in Nairobi.
Drama-Therapy India (DTI) developed out of a drama therapy symposium for allied mental health practitioners from across the country in Dec 2019. Its formation is attributed to 4 members: Maitri Gopalakrishna, Anshuma Kshetrapal, Pallavi Chander, Anupriya M. Banerjee Puthran who formed a collective to support, promote and develop the field of drama therapy in India.