Owner Private Practice
Art Therapy Collective
Parkton, Maryland, United States
Peggy Kolodny MA ATR-BC LCPAT, is a Board Certified, Registered, and Licensed Art Psychotherapist trained in EMDR and IFS with a Master’s in Art Therapy from George Washington University. Founder of the private practice Art Therapy Collective of Owings Mills, she's specializes in integrative art therapy trauma treatment since 1982. She is an approved Art Therapy Supervisor in Maryland and serves on multiple professional training faculties, presenting international workshops annually. Peggy co-developed the dissociation training track for The Expressive Therapies Summit and co-created the graduate course on Neuroscience-Informed Art Therapy for Stress and Trauma with a focus on Dissociation for the Florida State U Graduate Art Therapy program. Recently appointeded to the ISSTD Board of Directors, Peggy also serves as Co-Chair of the EMDR Special Interest Group, its past Secretary; and past Chair and Moderator of the Creative Arts Therapies SIG.
Past positions include President of the Maryland Art Therapy Association; Vice-Chair of American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, Maryland Chapter; and Chair of the Maryland Sexual Abuse Treatment Task Force. Past faculties include George Washington University, University of Maryland SSW, Goucher College, and Maryland Institute, College of Art.
Recent publications include: “Evolution of Trauma Theory and its relevance to Art Therapy” & “Healing Addiction & Trauma with the ETC and a Neurosequential Art Approach” in Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addictions and Trauma (Quinn, 2021); “The Interweave of IFS, EMDR, and Art Therapy, (co-author Mazero) in EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies (Davis et al, 2023); “Art Therapy and Dissociation” in The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy (Gussak & Rosal, 2025); “Active Imagination: Jungian underpinnings in the Joining of Art Therapy, IFS and EMDR” in IFS-Informed EMDR, (Polidi, 2025), and “Create Destroy Transform” in From Mourning to Meaning: the Expressive Arts in Grief, (Thompson & Neimeyer, 2026).
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Contemporary Creative Approaches: Integrating Art in Trauma Treatment for All Clinicians
Thursday, March 26, 2026
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