Winnie Wong, ATR-BC, LPC, is an EMDR-trained clinician, Registered Board-Certified Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, supervisor, educator, researcher, and artist. She has fourteen years of institutional and community experience across Singapore, India, Hong Kong, and Chicago. At YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, 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 also delivers professional training on crisis intervention, teaches and engages in national and international art therapy discourses, serves on the review team for proposals to the American Art Therapy Association conference and the Cook County human trafficking task force subcommittee. Finally, she is the founder of Dialogue in Art, an accessible open studio in Hong Kong for underserved youth experiencing sociopolitical unrest.
RECENT AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
- New Professional Award, American Art Therapy Association, United States (2022)
- MAATC Fellowship Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States (2022)
- Student Leadership Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States (2022)
- Valuing Difference Award, Live Oak and The Wingspan Project, United States (2021)
- Chicago Makers Fund, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States (2021)
- Sponsored Scholar, Rotary Kowloon West Hong Kong, Rotary International, Hong Kong (2021)
- Prasad Family Foundation International Student Scholarship, American Art Therapy Association, United States (2020)
- Hilgos Award, community project Drawn To Strangers, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States (2020)
- MakeWork Award, community project The Living Room, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States (2020)
- Second Year International Graduate Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States (2020)
- New Artist Society Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States (2019)