In Honor of Women's History Month
and in conjunction with
Creative Arts Therapies Week
Ms. D'Amore and Mr. Schwartz
decorated a door
at Alton Middle School
honoring
a former professor, mentor and long-time director of the
SIU-E Art Therapy Counseling Graduate Program
P. Gussie Klorer,
PhD, LCPC, LCSW, ATR-BC, HLM
Dr. Gussie Klorer has been a professor since 1985, served 22 years as the director of the SIU-E program, has a highly respected book:
Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children (2017, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers)
and numerous articles about art therapy.
Dr. Klorer is planning to retire from her position as a fulltime professor at the end of this school year.
She has done so much to grow the profession in the Southern Illinois and St. Louis region.
We asked Dr. Gussie Klorer
to share her thoughts about one of the women
pioneers of the art therapy field who most influence her work.
"Edith Kramer, who was one of founders in art therapy and wrote the first book I read about art therapy. She was an artist and a therapist and worked with children. When I read "Art as Therapy with Children" in college I knew I wanted to be an art therapist and then when I went to school for it, she became one of my teachers."
- P. Gussie Klorer
Edith Kramer (1916-2014)
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