about

Winnie Wong, LCPC, ATR-BC, is an EMDR-trained clinician, Registered Board-Certified Art Therapist, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, supervisor, educator, researcher, and artist. She has sixteen years of institutional and community experience across Singapore, India, Hong Kong, and Chicago. At the current community mental health agency, she implements anti-oppressive frameworks grounded in critical feminisms and relational-cultural theory to provide long-term trauma therapy to survivors of sexual violence of all ages. She overseas the clinical internship program and supervises therapists. She also delivers professional training on clinical supervision and crisis intervention, teaches and engages in national and international art therapy discourses, publishes research, and reviews journal submission and student thesis. She served on the Accreditation Council of Art Therapy Education (ACATE) to support the development of standard of graduate art therapy education in the United Statesl. in the past. Finally, she is the founder of Dialogue in Art, an accessible community art studio in Hong Kong for underserved youth, before expanding her clinical, supervisory, and community-based practice in Chicago.

RECENT NEWS:

Upcoming chapter in The Art of Justice: Arts Therapies with Children and Adolescents in Forensic, Legal, and Clinical Contexts, 2026, Integrating art therapy and EMDR with child survivors of sexual abuse: A relational and phase-oriented approach
Published article in International Journal of Art Therapy, 2025, Identity and belongingness of Asian art therapy educators: Critical art-based collaborative autoethnography
Published article in Art Therapy Journal, 2025, Reinforcing the Neurobiological Foundation of Art Therapy Assessment and Treatment: Integrating ETC and SIBAM
Published article in Art Therapy Journal, 2024, Emergent Well-Being: A Qualitative Study on Cultural Identity and Belonging of Emigrated Hong Kongers Post-2019
Featured member of American Art Therapy Association: Winnie Wongย 
Commemoration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month:ย Pen, Crystal Bracelet and Furniture: Exploring the Complexities of Belonging and Well-Being
American Art Therapy Association, How does your Asian heritage intersect with your work as an art therapist?
More about past presentations here