Season 2. Ep. 8 Miki Nishida Goerdt- Art Therapist (USA)
Miki is an artist, Board-Certified Art Therapist, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker living in the United States (Virginia).
In her 20 years+ career as an art therapist and a social worker, she enjoyed working with older adults in various settings such as nursing homes, assisted living facilities, private homes, an outreach mental health program, and an outpatient mental health
program. Currently she has a private practice in Virginia and works primarily with older adults, immigrants, and clients of color. Her clinical interests are grief, aging related issues, acculturation, racial identity, and racial/cultural trauma.
In addition to her private practice, Miki has taught in social work and art therapy graduate programs as an adjunct faculty for the past several years. Whatever the role she serves, she is committed to applying anti-oppressive approaches. Her writing and
publications explore topics of antiracism and other types of oppression, solidarity building among people of color, and cultural identity exploration.
As a visual artist, Miki practices her creative expression through paintings, mixed media art, and printmaking. She believes that it is imperative for art therapists to maintain their artist identity through an ongoing artmaking practice.
She provides group supervision and individual supervision for art therapists and social workers.
