STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
"The program offered by NIET is more stimulating and challenging than any academic coursework I've encountered before. Both the material and the interaction with the instructor are a catalyst for deep insights, not only about Expressive Arts Therapy, but my work as a writer and my life in general as well. You've called me to learn at a level I didn't know was possible, and I'm loving every minute of it."
Kay Marie Porterfield, MA, Denver, Colorado
"Three days after I completed my work with the National Institute of Expressive Therapy, I was offered a position as Associate Professor at the Long Island University Graduate School, and I’ve been teaching there ever since."
June M. Conboy, PhD, Dix Hills, New York
"I was just thinking that for me, online learning is better than say 'classroom' learning, maybe because it seems more, I don't know, real? Anyhow, online learning is just so much better because it's all about interaction, and you can really respond and process and digest everything. I think you learn more because you're working with things as they're coming up and responding to them that way, and everything is building onto what went on before and you can always find it creeping into something you're working on or a person you're working with, but you find it's showing itself in a unique way."
Delia (Dee) Saunders, BFA, MA, DeFuniak Springs, Florida (former student, current faculty member)
"This is my first course through NIET and it is an exciting process. It surpasses my expectations. Not only am I learning techniques to use with my clients, but I am learning so much about myself. My supervisor is excellent. She responds to my emails in a timely manner and her feedback is honest and revealing."
Ruth Knight-Bowes, Ontario, Canada
"The work I have done with clay and painting over the past few months has really affected me personally, as well as professionally. (I have no background in the arts, and no innate talent for art. Writing is my gift.) The changes in my awareness and the shifts I have encountered since working with art certainly help me understand the impact it can have on the clients I work with. Likewise, the work I have done with clients integrating the arts has been amazing. Some of the adolescents I am working with are doing regressive work on childhood victimization without direction from me. It is amazing to see how they respond. One 12 year old boy with Autism has been very receptive to work with paints. He has come out of his world of darkness to the point of being verbally interactive and animated in therapy. I am eager to learn more so I can expand on the baby steps I have taken to date."
LuAnn Pierce, LMSW, Columbia, South Carolina
"I am writing to let you know that the. . .[work I did] with the National Institute of Expressive Therapy has enabled me to become Adjunct Faculty at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, CA. I am teaching
Transpersonal Counseling Systems: Expressive Arts Therapy, in the Transpersonal Psychology Department in
the Graduate School of Holistic Studies."
Terry Hatcher, PhD, Oakland, California
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