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Elizabeth Davis, MFA, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT

Director
Child Trauma Institute
WILTON, Connecticut, United States

Elizabeth Davis, MFA, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT is a board certified, licensed art therapist with over 20 years’ experience working in the field of Creative Arts Therapy and trauma therapy. She graduated from Nazareth College with a MS in Creative Arts Therapy and from the State University of New York in Buffalo with a MFA in Photography. She has conducted dozens of workshops and presentations that offer creative approaches to engaging and treating clients of all ages with complex issues. Elizabeth is EMDR certified and a Consultant and serves as an EMDR Trainer for Trauma Institute. She is level one certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Hypnosis through ASCH, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, play therapy, sand tray, “part work” utilizing Structural Dissociation Theory, attachment assessment and Level 2 training in IFS, utilizing these in her integrative approach combining these approaches with Art and Expressive Therapy, EMDR Therapy, Progressive Counting, mindfulness practices, parts work, Hypnosis, Attachment Focused Therapy. She currently serves as Director of the Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute satellite in New York where she is involved in training, research, consultation, and intensive therapy. Elizabeth has published multiple chapters including in EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An Integrated Approach (2020) edited by Beckly–Forest & Monaco and more recently “Art Therapy “ in The Handbook of Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children (2025) edited by Gomez & Hosey.
She co-edited her book EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies with Fitzgerald, Jacobs, and Marchand in 2023.
She is current Co-Chair for the EMDR Special Interest Group for the International Society on Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and past Secretary of the Creative Arts Therapies SIG. Elizabeth recently joined Florida State University as adjunct faculty to co-teach the art therapy graduate course “Neuroscience-Informed Art Therapy for Stress and Trauma.

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