Carrie May Ezell
Expressive Art Therapy Consulting
918 East 10th Street
Chattanooga, TN 37403
423-653-8166
carriegaylemay@hotmail.com
www.onlinetata.org

"I am working to make art therapy recognized
as a viable health care modality in the Southeast"

Carrie May Ezell, ATR, is a Registered Art Therapist and a current doctoral student working towards her PhD in Expressive Therapies through Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  In Chattanooga she has done art therapy work in a wide variety of settings including: 

• AIM Center

• CADAS

• Children’s Discovery Museum

• Cumberland Hall

• Hosanna Community

• Martin Boyd

• Memorial Hospital

• Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute

• Morning Pointe of Chattanooga

• Morning Pointe of Collegedale

• St. Barnabas

• Siskin Children’s Institute

• Siskin Hospital for Physical Rehabilitation

• The Terrace

Carrie speaks to and facilitates workshops for colleges, universities and conferences about the field of art therapy and is a mentor for high school and college students.  She has been a guest panelist for the local ABC and CBS affiliates in Chattanooga, speaking on the topic of art as a healing modality.  Carrie provides in-home therapy services for ProFamily and is a Holmberg Arts Leadership fellow.  In 2010 she became an adjunct professor at Southern Adventist University for the School of Visual Art and Design.

Carrie is the immediate past President of the Tennessee Art Therapy Association, a member of the American Art Therapy Association and the National Association of Activity Professionals.  She is currently working towards the REAT (Registered Expressive Arts Therapist) and the ADC (Certified Activity Director) credential and hopes to make art therapy recognized as a viable health care modality in the Southeast.

Educational Experience:

• MA – Southwestern College, Art Therapy
• BA – Berry College, Theater and Art
• AA – Young Harris College, Theater

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