private practice, PhDs, and more

I have been away, just getting back to e-mail and this board. The discussion on private practice has so many interesting threads to it! One is the PhD or not-to-PhD question-- I don't have one, and actually it helps me to get more clinical work where I live. I actually get more referrals because I am at a masters level. But if I were strictly in academia, many places want a PhD, and unfortunately, any PhD, not necessarily one in art therapy per se. That is partly because of the lack of art therapy PhDs available; although there is now a new PhD in expressive therapies at Lesley College, where I teach on occasion. I hear from time to time, there are others in the works in other parts of the US.

The art therapy, profession or idea question, is a really interesting one and there are two more issues of the journal that will have essays on that subject. Not an easy question to answer, I have no conclusions myself. Actually, this comes around to private practice-- in order to have a private practice in my state, I have be licensed as a clinical counselor. I do art therapy all the time, but my profession by law, is clinical counseling. So is art therapy my profession (what I do) or what the law recognizes? I know I am an art therapist, but to get paid a decent wage, I am fine with being licensed as a clinical counselor. But it does philosophically bring up the art therapy--profession or idea-- dilemma, for sure.

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