Meet the Art of Friendship Therapists

Michael Fogel, MA, ATR-BC, LPC
Program Director

Michael Fogel is a nationally registered, board certified art psychotherapist, and is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania. After completing a master’s thesis entitled “On the Use of Patients’ Humorous Art Products in Art Psychotherapy” he graduated from Hahnemann University’s graduate art therapy program in 1995. Michael is currently an adjunct faculty member at the Hahnemann Creative Arts in Therapy graduate program at Drexel University. He supervises student interns, sits on thesis committees and teaches the group supervision class for first year art therapy students. A frequent presenter at local and national conferences on a variety of topics, Michael was honored with the 2006 “Innovation in Art Therapy Award” by the Delaware Valley Art Therapy Association for his “tireless effort to take art therapy to forward-looking and ground-breaking places”.

In 11 years of clinical experience in the Philadelphia area, Michael has provided individual and group art therapy for patients between the ages of 3-92 in a variety of settings. In 2000, after gaining much invaluable experience, Michael pursued his dream of specializing in child therapy in a full time outpatient private practice. He pursued postgraduate training and supervision to become expert in family systems and therapy, parenting-training, child-centered art and play therapy techniques, neurological disorders, and individual and social development in children.

For the past 7 years Michael has maintained a private practice specializing in the treatment of preschool through adolescent children and their families. There are two foci in Michael’s practice. One focus is providing individual child art therapy in a family therapy context. Child-centered art therapy is integrated with parent-support for deep, long-lasting healing and growth. The second main focus of Michael’s practice is a social skills program, called “The Art of Friendship”. This art-based social skills program provides individual and group social skills therapy for children facing neurologically-based social challenges such as ADHD, learning disabilities and Autism Spectrum disorders.

Michael lives just outside of Philadelphia, where he enjoys the joys and challenges of raising his two children with his wife, Lisa.

Luisa Gray is a registered, board certified art therapist and a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania. Luisa earned her Master of Arts in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Art Therapy from the Naropa University. Her child friendly art therapy approach to treatment helps both expressive and non-expressive children resolve a wide variety of emotional, behavioral and social problems. Her work with families is influenced by a child centered art therapy approach, play therapy, family systems and a Buddhist inspired outlook.

Her experience stems from working in a number of outpatient mental health clinics where Luisa worked both with individuals and families dealing with a variety of issues: grief and loss, truancy, depression, parenting issues, and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders. Luisa also gained valuable experience in facilitating art therapy groups for children with emotional and peer relationship problems. Luisa is involved in the social skill program at the Child and Family Art Therapy Center called “The Art of Friendship”. One of her main goals is to promote social awareness and to help children learn how to connect to others in meaningful and respectful ways. Luisa is currently taking a post graduate training course in play therapy at the Family Play Therapy Center in Mt. Airy. When Luisa is not working, she is enjoying the whirlwind of raising her two young children with her husband.

Kathryn Snyder is a Board-Certified Art Psychotherapist & Licensed Professional Counselor dedicated to helping children & families survive & thrive in a challenging world. She has been in practice for over 9 years specializing in social & emotional problems of early childhood, adolescence, family lifecycle transitions, & postpartum stress. Kathryn is a graduate of the Hahnemann Creative Arts in Therapy Program at Drexel University where she continues to supervise master’s degree candidates.

Juliet King McCallum has worked in the mental health field for over ten years. She is a Registered and Board Certified Art Therapist and holds her License as a Professional Counselor in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey.The majority of Juliet’s work has been with children and adolescents at both the direct care and administrative levels; she uses art and verbal therapy to address behavioral, emotional and neurological issues in the individual and group formats. Juliet has also worked with adults providing psychotherapy and mental health services for populations including eating disorders, schizophrenia, spinal cord and brain injuries, and those involved in the prison system.

Juliet is currently involved in neurofeedback research and has previously conducted independent research looking at neurological changes via artwork in children that have received neurofeedback treatment for ADHD/ADD and Learning Disabilities. Currently she participates in the development of program policies and procedures in her role as Director of Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services for Wordsworth Academy in Philadelphia, PA. In her work as adjunct professor in the graduate Art Therapy program at Hahnemann University, and as a clinical supervisor for both graduate and undergraduate students, Ms. King McCallum is dedicated to the education and development of clinicians in training, in addition to the assessment of current societal trends that affect mental health treatment in general.

She is currently developing a private practice as an associate of the Child and Family Art Therapy Center in Paoli and Ardmore, PA. In this capacity she provides social skills and psychotherapy intervention to children and adolescents who are diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome and other Autistic Spectrum disorders.