Mia de Bethune, MA, ART-BC, LCAT, ISP/SEP, is an artist and art therapy educator practicing in NY but residing in Rhode Island. She’s also in the dissertation phase of her doctoral degree at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, focusing on somatic practices in art therapy. Mia has been practicing art therapy since 2000 and has worked with numerous populations, from children and adolescents in foster care to hospice and bereavement care. Her private practice in Westchester County, NY, is focused on somatically focused trauma treatment with adults and children. She teaches at NYU and has also taught at the School of Visual Arts, Syracuse University, and Maharashtra Institute of Technology in India. Routledge accepted her concept for the book The Embodied Art Therapist for publication in 2026. This project and her dissertation (a qualitative study of art therapists’ lived experience of embodiment) are her focus for writing this year. Within her own artwork, she explores the energetic connection between the image of the body on the page and her body, as well as fiber sculptures made from industrial materials.

Affiliation: NYU