Season 5. Ep.1 Dr. Jessica Collier - Art Psychotherapist (UK) (Copy)

Dr Jessica Collier (she/her) has practiced as an NHS art psychotherapist with violent offenders in prisons, secure hospitals and a modified forensic therapeutic community. She currently leads a team developing arts psychotherapies services for women and men in prison.

Jessica is co-convenor of the Forensic Arts Therapies Advisory Group, and formerly a council member of the British Association of Art Therapists and the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapists. Jessica has presented her work at conferences nationally and internationally. She lectures on postgraduate arts psychotherapy and forensic psychotherapy programmes and and is a visiting fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was the inaugural co-editor in chief of the International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy and has published widely including co-editing the book Intersectionality and Art Psychotherapies. Jessica's PhD considered the interdisciplinary dialogue between feminist criminology and art psychotherapy as a means of understanding gendered identities in prison and she remains passionate about working with criminalised women.

Jessica also has a private practice providing clinical supervision and reflective practice to psychological professionals and teams working with complex forensic patients across prisons, secure hospitals and community settings. In addition, Jessica has an interest in Social Dreaming and has trained with the Social Dreaming International Network.

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