Dr. Lillian Gross, MD (psychiatrist)
teaching at a recent NETA conference
at Long Island University

Past and present members of the faculty include:

Daniel L. Araoz, EdD, Distinguished Fellow, The National Expressive Therapy Association; distinguished psychologist and sex therapist; Fellow, American Psychological Association; Board Certified, American Board of Professional Psychologists; author, The New Hypnosis: Techniques in Brief Individual & Family Psychotherapy, published in 1995 by Jason Aronson, Solution-Oriented Brief Therapy for Adjustment Disorders, published in 1995 by Brunner/Mazel, and numerous other works.

June M. Conboy, PhD, Board Certified Expressive Arts Therapist; Distinguished Fellow, The National Expressive Therapy Association; Fellow, International Society for the Study of Dissociation; Adjunct Professor of Counseling, Long Island University.

Hilda Lee Dail, PhD, Certified Expressive Therapist; Distinguished Fellow, The National Expressive Therapy Association; author, The Lotus and the Pool: How to Create your Own Career, distributed by Random House, 1989.

Josef E. Garai, PhD, Distinguished Fellow, The National Expressive Therapy Association; founder of the Creative Arts Therapy Program at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Lillian Gross, MD (psychiatrist); Fellow, American Psychiatric Association; Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry; private practice; faculty, Queens Children's Psychiatric Center; past Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, State University of New York Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn; past lecturer in Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Medicine; President, American Medical Women's Association (Long Island Branch).

Dennis Genpo Merzel, Soto Zen priest; author, 24/7 Dharma: Impermanence, No-Self, Nirvana, published in 2001 by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Beyond Sanity and Madness: The Way of Zen Master Dogen, (Tuttle Library of Enlightenment), 1994, The Eye Never Sleeps: Striking to the Heart of Zen, published in 1991 by Shambala Publications.

Steve Ross, PhD, (retired) Certified Expressive Therapist (Board Certified), Acting Dean, Mentor in Expressive Therapy; called "One of the eminent trainers in the field," by the American Art Therapy Association; founder of The National Expressive Therapy Association; a colleague recently wrote: "I loved your testimonials from Shaun McNiff, stating that you've 'achieved revolutionary objectives.' Also, Eugene Gendlin's comments about 'expanding what "art" can mean into a real vanguard of humanity's development.' You certainly have had a positive impact on many of your associates and students, and for that I want to thank you. You have created a field of dreams that was only a blank field for some and you have stirred up emotions in some where no emotions existed. Even in great adversity you forged ahead for something that you believed in, even when others tried to stop you. I've seen the struggle, and the accomplishments, and I also can call you 'Beloved Teacher.'" (Gladys Ostrom, PhD); teaches counseling and psychotherapy skills at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and elsewhere. (curriculum vitae)

Delia (Dee) Saunders, MA, Board Certified Expressive Arts Therapist, Mentor in Expressive Arts Therapy; completed an arduous transformation from art therapist to expressive arts therapist and expressive therapist; working in prisons, shelters and other similar settings, as a therapist and in some instances as overall administrator; perhaps the most popular member of the entire faculty.