MFT Alumna Publishes Award-Winning Parenting Book
This book isn’t only about changing how we parent. It’s about changing the lives of vulnerable youth. For the first time ever, powerful tools inspired by art therapy have been …
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MFT Students Honored with LA Department of Mental Health Stipend Awards
For the eighth consecutive year, students in LMU’s Graduate Department of Marital and Family Therapy with Specialized Training in Art Therapy (MFT) have received stipend awards to provide public mental …
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MFT Annual Student Art Exhibition Encourages Us to “Breathe”
Each year, LMU’s Marital and Family (Art) Therapy graduate students present a joint exhibition exploring an aspect important to the practice of art therapy. This year’s exhibition was entitled “Breathe,” …
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A Theme of Unity Inspires the 2019 Summer Arts Workshop
The LMU Marital and Family Therapy (MFT) program’s Summer Arts Workshop (SAW) took place this past August at Loyola Marymount University, inviting students from the Dolores Mission School in Los …
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ATCB Blog: Ensuring Cultural Awareness in Your Professional Activities
In an article entitled “Ensuring Cultural Awareness in Your Professional Activities,” Marital and Family Therapy program alumna and faculty Ruth Xilomen Rios writes how her work as a credentialed art …
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We Love Our Grads: Jill Levenberg ’19, Marital and Family Therapy
“My favorite thing about LMU is the classes I have had the privilege of taking. Every time I came to school, I learned some information that I did not know …
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2019 Helen B. Landgarten Scholar is Announced
In 1988, when LMU’s Marital and Family Therapy program founder Helen B. Landgarten retired, the department inaugurated the Helen B. Landgarten Scholar award. The award, which is given yearly to …
The Art of Healing
Einat Metzl, Ph.D, chair of LMU’s Departmental of Marital and Family Therapy was recently profiled by Playa Vista Direct. In it, she discusses the crucial importance of creative expression when …
MFT Students Earn Highly-Competitive Agency Stipends
Melissa Garcia, Jessie McCurdy, Zoe Brockway, Mailynn Tran, and Allison Marx. For the seventh consecutive year, students in LMU’s master’s program in Marital and Family Therapy (specializing in Art Therapy) have …
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MFT Faculty Member and Alumni Elected to AATA
Louvenia Jackson, assistant professor of marital and family therapy, was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Art Therapy Association, and Nadia Paredes ‘12, an alumni of the …
2018 Summer Arts Workshop Focuses on Connecting with Others
This year’s Summer Arts Workshop (SAW), an annual weeklong, therapeutic, art-making workshop sponsored and facilitated by LMU’s Graduate Department of Marital and Family (Art) Therapy, had an overarching theme of “Vibrations: …
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