Peggy Kolodny, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT, earned her master’s in art therapy from GWU in 1982. Founder of the Art Therapy Collective in Maryland, she specializes in trauma-focused multimodal art therapy across the lifespan, holding level 2 certificates in IFS and in EMDR. She is adjunct faculty for GWU and FSU Art Therapy Graduate Programs trauma tracks and is workshop faculty for the Ferentz Institute and Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars. Currently she is Co-Chair for the EMDR Special Interest Group for the International Society on the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and recent past Chair of the Creative Art Therapists Special Interest Group. Past positions include Vice-chair of the Maryland Chapter of American Professional Society on Abuse of Children; Chairperson of Central Maryland Sexual Abuse Treatment Task Force; and President of Maryland Art Therapy Association. Past faculties include University of Maryland School of Social Work, MICA, and Goucher College. Peggy recently published several chapters in Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addictions and Trauma (Quinn, 2021) and co-authored a chapter on The Interweave of IFS, EMDR and Art Therapy in EMDR and The Creative Arts Therapies (Davis et al, 2023). She has 2 more chapters in press including Art Therapy and DID in Wiley’s Handbook of Art Therapy.