Profiles

Eileen K. Douglas, PhD, LPC, ATR-BC, Core Counseling Faculty

Eileen Douglas is an alumna of EVMS’ Graduate Art Therapy and Counseling Program class of 2010. She is a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). Eileen completed a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision (CACREP) at Oregon State University. Eileen’s specialties include mindfulness, mindfulness-based art therapy, and cultural humility.

Eileen’s professional experience has focused on culturally responsive individual and group art therapy and counseling services with adolescents and adults. She began her professional career providing group art therapy to a diverse population of children and adolescents at Rappahannock Juvenile Detention Center in Stafford, VA. Eileen returned to the Tidewater area in 2013 to establish an art therapy program at Commonwealth ChalleNGe Youth Academy, where she was promoted to Lead Counselor. Eileen later sought to extend her clinical experience to art therapy and counseling with undergraduate and graduate students at Norfolk State University where she focused on brief, solution-focused services and received training in EMDR.

Eileen is passionate about research in the field of art therapy. Her research interests center upon culturally humble art therapy and counseling practices and the intersection of art and mindfulness. As a full-time faculty member, Eileen provides individual and group supervision and mentors GATCP students to complete their Capstone. Eileen also teaches Cultural Humility, Research Methods and Program Evaluation, Capstone, Basic Counseling and Art Psychotherapy Skills, Family Counseling and Psychotherapy, Advanced Counseling and Art Psychotherapy, and Ethics and Professionalism.