HEATHER DAWSON
Associate Faculty
Biography
Heather Dawson, MA, RCAT, has been an art maker, an art therapist and an explorer of the uniqueness and the mystery of human beings for over thirty years. She trained as an art therapist, a body centered psychotherapist (the Hakomi Method) and has a Master's degree in expressive arts therapy and psychology. Her teachers are among the pioneers in each of these fields. Heather has taught at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute and has been in private practice since 1994; she is also an instructor in the art therapy program at St. Stephen's College, and is a core faculty instructor in the expressive arts training program in Vancouver. She continues to facilitate individual and group supervision for graduate therapists and has traveled throughout Canada and to Europe and Northern Ireland as a workshop facilitator.
