East Bay Art Therapy, Oakland, CA (2025)

07/22/2025

East Bay Art Therapy is excited to announce a new job opportunity! 🎶

We are looking for a qualified Music Therapist to facilitate groups at a psychiatric hospital with adolescents and adults in San Mateo, CA. Come join a diverse team of Creative Arts Therapists that share the common goal of providing trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and client-centered care. This is a full time position with a competitive salary and benefits. The MT-BC credential is required and a master’s degree is preferred. To read the full job description, visit eastbayarttherapy.com/careers. To apply, email resume and cover letter to Tonia@eastbayarttherapy.com.

07/18/2025

Art Activities to Help Explore & Express Anger!

Art therapy is a powerful tool for anger management because it offers a safe, creative outlet to express intense emotions. This non-verbal expression helps reduce stress, increase self-awareness, and develop healthier coping strategies—ultimately leading to more emotional regulation and inner calm.

07/15/2025

Nothing like pizza, coworkers, and a little game night fun to de-stress and enjoy some weekend joy 🍕✨ A simple hangout goes a long way 🙌 Grateful for these small get togethers

07/10/2025

Drawing is such a simple and accessible art form. Try keeping a small sketchbook and some markers with with you and when you are feeling anxious or stressed, draw by playing with lines, shapes and repeating patterns with markers or pens. This process can be very calming for your nervous system. EBAT Owner Tonia created these drawings with Creative Markers (an EBAT favorite!). They have a similar effect as paint markers, but you don’t have to shake them up first! The colors are very opaque and they can be used on all types of surfaces, even fabric. Let us know how you incorporate drawing into your art practice and what your favorite drawing materials are!

07/08/2025

We are excited to announce that EBAT Art Therapist Lauren Chester, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT (she/they) has been promoted to Clinical Supervisor! Lauren now supervises EBAT’s Provisional Art Therapists, supervises the Sutter Health Mills Health Center Team, and serves as the Regional Center Referral Coordinator. Lauren brings 15 years of clinical experience (the past 3 here at EBAT) and a wealth of knowledge to her supervisees. Read Lauren’s full bio at eastbayarttherapy.com/team!

06/26/2025

Upcoming Training for Therapists!

Therapeutic Art Making in Clinical Practice for Non-Art Therapists

Are you a mental health clinician interested in learning how to ethically incorporate art making into your clinical work as a non-art therapist? What may be difficult for our clients to express in words can become more accessible when they are given the opportunity to express themselves through a creative art form. Art making can serve as a bottom-up, somatic process that can help our clients communicate in a way that may feel safer for them. Although you will not become an Art Therapist after this training, you will be able to incorporate art making activities with your clients in individual or group settings that will help you build rapport and deepen the therapeutic process and relationship. In this training you will learn the history of art therapy and some of the psychology behind the art making process, be presented with case examples, and get the hands-on experience of learning a few therapeutic art-making directives and actually get to create the artworks yourself! If attending in person, all art materials will be provided. If attending virtually, participants will be sent a supply list to purchase their own materials.

Facilitated by Tonia Herrero, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, ATCS
Licensed & Board-Certified Art Therapist, Certified Art Therapy Supervisor and Owner of East Bay Art Therapy
Saturday, September 27th, 2025
12:00-3:00pm
Hybrid: Oakland Office & Zoom Options
(If you are local, in-person is highly encouraged)
Cost: $150 per person
Student Rate: $125 per person

Please note, EBAT is not (yet) an approved CE provider.
Please note, you will not become an art therapist or be able to practice art therapy after this training.
To sign up, send us a message on our website: eastbayarttherapy.com/training or email Tonia directly at Tonia@eastbayarttherapy.com

06/19/2025

🚨HIRING ALERT! 🚨

EBAT is hiring an Art Therapist for our Oakland, CA location!

This Art Therapist will be part-time to start (with opportunity to build to full-time with benefits). This position involves working with private practice individuals and families ages 4+ including individuals with developmental disabilities with high support needs. The position includes some off-site work throughout the East Bay doing groups and home-based sessions. Come work for a fantastic team of all Creative Arts Therapists and receive top notch Art Therapy supervision and clinical training!

Candidates must have a masters degree in Art Therapy and be registered with the ATCB. Must be culturally competent to work with a diverse caseload. Must be available Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

One year post-masters clinical experience in art therapy preferred. Bilingual in Spanish preferred.

Full job description at: eastbayarttherapy.com/careers

To apply, email resume and cover letter to Tonia@eastbayarttherapy.com

06/12/2025

Art Therapy is about creative self expression, not creating an aesthetically pleasing or successful art piece. In art therapy there is no such thing as good or bad art because there is absolutely no judgment of art. No matter what your art looks like when finished, the process of creating is therapeutic and does offer us insight into ourselves on a deeper level. For some it is even a spiritual practice of getting in touch with one’s soul self or higher self. If you are interested in changing your relationship to art making that focuses on healing and mental wellness, reach out at eastbayarttherapy.com today to work with one of our registered art therapists!

06/05/2025

Adult Grief Art Therapy Group

🪡 Threads of Memory: An Art Therapy Group for Grief & Healing 🪡

This 8-week adult art therapy group (ages 18+) offers a compassionate space for individuals processing a loss. Through a combination of reflective discussion and creative exploration—culminating in a textile-based memorial project—participants are invited to honor, remember, and transform their grief. No artistic experience is necessary. Each session provides gentle guidance using accessible materials such as fabric, photos, natural objects, and writing to help participants move through grief in a supportive, connected environment. An optional special focus will be offered of using textiles or materials from the loved one (e.g., clothing, linens) to create meaningful keepsakes.

This group is appropriate for those who:
Have experienced a loss (recent or past)
Are looking for creative, symbolic ways to process grief
Value ritual, story, or making as healing

Facilitated by Aurora Daigle, MPS, ATR-P (she/her)
Thursdays 6:00-7:30pm
Dates: TBA
Maximum Capacity: 8
Now Enrolling! Will start once minimum sign ups are reached!
This group is in-person at the East Bay Art Therapy office in Oakland, CA.

Visit eastbayarttherapy.com/groups to learn more and send us a message!

05/27/2025

✨New Group!✨

What We Carry
An Art Therapy Group for Women+ Therapists
Join a nourishing and restorative 8-week virtual art therapy group created especially for women therapists. In this sacred space, we explore what we carry—the visible and invisible weights of caregiving, clinical work, and lived experience. Together, we’ll gently examine the layers we hold as helpers: the tenderness, the exhaustion, the wisdom, and the resilience. Through guided art-making, reflective prompts, and mindful dialogue, this group offers a space to honor where you’ve been, release what no longer serves, and reconnect with the parts of you that need care and creativity. You do so much for others—this is your time to receive.

Themes we’ll explore:
- The emotional and energetic “backpack” we carry as caregivers
- The art of self-tending and sustainable care
- Honoring personal and professional lineage
- Reimagining who we’re becoming, both in and beyond our roles

No art experience necessary—just bring your heart, your hands, and the art materials you are drawn to. Come to exhale. Come to remember yourself.

Non-binary, trans, and gender-expansive therapists who would feel comfortable in a women-identified space are welcome.
Therapists-in-training are welcome in this group.

Facilitated by Angelina Nader, MA, AMFT, ATR (she/her)

Wednesdays 5:30-7:00pm
Dates: TBD
Group is 8 weeks
Now Enrolling! Will start once reached minimum sign ups!
Maximum Capacity: 8

This group takes place virtually using the Zoom platform.
Open to residents of California as well as: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CO, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, ME, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NC, ND, OK, RI, SC, SD, TN, VT, WA, WV, & WY.

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