Board of Directors 2025-2026
Below are the members of the Board. You can also read their directory profiles below.
- Co-President -Susanne Dorder (She/Her)
- Co-President – Heidi McCurdy (She/Her)
- Treasurer – Daphne Browne (She/Her)
- Secretary – Antonietta Miolla Nesbit (She/Her)
- Member at Large – Maria-Hélèna Pacelli (She/They)
- Member at Large – Tanisha DC Centhamil (She/Her)
- Member at Large – Estephania Solis (She/Her)
- Member at Large – Valerie Weiss (She/Her)
- Ex-Officio President – Kayla Chambers (She/Her) 2022 – 2023
- Ex-Officio President – Melanie Nesbitt (She/Her) 2014; 2022-2023
- Ex-Officio President – Terri Roberton (She/Her/Us/We/Our) 2015-2022; 2023-2025
Daphne Browne
Expressive Arts Therapist
I offer an integrated approach to therapy incorporating the expressive arts, compassion- focused therapy, mindfulness and trauma informed care. My focus is to support clients to feel heard, to de-stress, and to connect to their inner resources and strengthen life skills. Areas of practice are with adults in the areas of life transitions, stress/anxiety and bereavement.…
Susanne Dorder
RP, PhD Candidate, EXAT
I am a healer who applies expressive arts and psychotherapy in education, research and therapeutic practice. With nearly 20 years of experience empowering individuals and groups, I am passionate about sharing my gift of healing as a member of the Amerindian-Chinese Surinamese and Caribbean diaspora. It is important for me to impart my knowledge in communities where people seek to learn and grow, including schools, community organizations, and healthcare facilities.…
Heidi McCurdy
Expressive Arts Therapist, Sound Healer & Voice Coach
Free Your Voice & Healing Self-Expression
Antonietta Nesbit Miolla
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and Expressive Arts Therapist
With a background in education and expressive arts therapy, I walk alongside teens and adults as they move through the tender terrain of anxiety, stress, and relationship challenges. As a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), I offer a space shaped by compassion and creativity, a quiet clearing where you can soften, breathe, and let your inner world speak.…
Melanie Nesbitt, RP, EXAT, REAT
Registered Psychotherapist,
Melanie Nesbitt is a Registered Psychotherapist and Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist. She graduated from York University and the European Graduate School. Melanie has over 30 years’ experience working with the arts as a psychotherapist, teacher, and supervisor. In her private practice she sees people of all ages, individually and in small groups. She helps clients deal with trauma, relationship issues, grief and loss; that may lead to stress, anxiety, depression, and panic. …
Maria-Helena Pacelli
RP(Qualifying), AT, ExAT
Maria-Hélèna (she/they) is a compassionate art and expressive arts therapist in training. Maria-Hélèna’s work rests on humanistic, feminist, anti-oppressive and mindfulness and body-based approaches. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Master’s in Feminist and Gender Studies (formerly Women’s Studies) and as Yoga Teacher Training. She is currently pursuing her Dual Diploma in Art and Expressive Arts Therapy at the Winnipeg Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy (WHEAT) Institute.…
Terri Roberton, RP, BFA, MLIS, ExAT
RP, ExAT, BFA, MLIS
Terri Roberton, (RP, ExAT, BFA, MLIS) is immersed in the arts from various angles having practiced painting, illustration and animation for many years.
Framework
The ExAT framework includes relational, person-centred, experiential, arts-based, somatic, transpersonal, existential, and phenomenological. Using an Intersectional Anti-Oppression Feminist (IAOF) framework, Terri, an Abolitionist Feminist, has worked with clients on the following issues: Confidence, sexuality, stigma, addictions, relationships, trauma, depression, anxiety, isolation; identity, equity, intersecting, or compartmentalized worlds, age, class, image, physical/developmental/emotional ability.…
Estephania Solis
Expressive Arts Therapist & Consultant
I’m Estephania, the heart of Alkehmia, dedicated to transforming personal and collective awareness through art, psychology, and spirituality as healing technologies.
I’m an Expressive Arts Therapist and Consultant.
I work with the imagination, the key to your reality. Where your quality of life is enhanced by aligning with peace of mind, emotional integration, and inner joy.…
Valerie Weiss, RP (Qualifying), ExAT, BA
Welcome! I’m Valerie— a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Expressive Arts Therapist (ExAT), and a lifelong artist. I’m also someone who knows that when life gets heavy, words aren’t always enough. This is where the arts can offer a different way to approach your life.
Art has been my “constant companion” and a powerful resource in helping me navigate life’s ups and downs.…