Season 1 -Ep.10 Meredith Snow - Art Therapist (USA)
Meredith is a therapist, artist, and cultural worker who develops and sustains innovative art therapy initiatives for the public and private sector.
I strive to provide culturally relevant art therapy. Over the past several years, I have been actively examining my own bias, history, culture, and life experience as a therapist and teacher being raised in the U.S. with a Eurocentric lens.
I am a white-bodied, feminine of center, Queer person who has a continued practice in examining internalized harmful beliefs both personally and systemically.
As a senior art therapist at John Muir Behavioral Health Center I provided inpatient and outpatient care with a focus on adolescent psychiatry as well as addiction medicine.
In my private practice, I specialized in LGBTQAI+ teens, especially Trans and Non-binary youth, and provide group art therapy for medically ill children and their families, providing interventions in the hospital and at home.
I spearheaded one of the first art therapy programs in the Central New York area, securing funding, marketing, and obtaining clients from a broad variety of public institutions: academic, medical, and non-profits.
As an art facilitator at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, I provided end-of-life art experiential for patients and their families and presented to the university's Biomedical and Ethics Scholarly Concentration students and faculty on integrating the arts as therapy into the medical school curriculum.
At the San Francisco Department of Public Health, I served as a Trauma Informed Champion, was a wellness leader for staff, and developed and implemented their Vocational Rehabilitation Program.
I am part of and work within the LGBTQ+ community where I have brought nationally recognized individuals such as Ari Istar-Lev and Willy Wilkinson to present to healthcare professionals to ensure adequate care for trans-variant individuals and their families.
Currently, I am an art therapist at a skilled nursing facility working with individuals and groups that are persistently mentally ill. I am also working on a paper examining the efficacy of art therapy at end of life with LGBTQ adults.
Meredith is available for supervision sessions and can be contacted:
