Patricia Laraia
Expressive Arts Therapist, Imago Relationship Therapist
Patricia Laraia is an Expressive Arts Therapist & Imago Relationship Therapist, specializing in Giving & Receiving Love. Patricia is also a Professional Practicing Artist with a background and special interest in the healing benefits of Energy Medicine & Meditation.
Gracelynn Lau
PhD candidate
I’m an expressive arts therapist and researcher pursing my PhD in cultural studies at Queen’s University. My research dances at the crossroads of Indigenous-settler relations, collective trauma healing, settler/migrant cultural identity, and the use of expressive arts therapy in autoethnography research. Based in Canada and in Hong Kong, I’m also an ecovillage design education and permaculture facilitator with Gaia Education, and the Work that Reconnects facilitator.
Shuyi Ariel Luo
PH.D. ExAT, CCTF, CRT
Ariel is an Expressive Arts Therapist, has a Ph.D. in Industrial Design: in a group of Human Factors Psychology and a degree in Fine Arts. She is also a Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist – Family (CCTSF), currently experienced in working with Chinese adults, children, and families. As a therapist, educator and facilitator, she facilitates healing by bringing together body-mind sensation, psychological life, imagination, and principles of creativity with her humanistic educational background: Fine Arts, Design, and Human-Factor Psychology Research.…
OEATA respects and honours the work of our:
- Expressive Arts Practitioners (EAP)
- Expressive Arts Therapists (ExAT)
- Peer Movement Specialists (ExA or ExAT and /or RP)
- Registered Psychotherapist, ExAT’s (RP, ExA or ExAT)
- Affiliates (Training institutes, Supportive Businesses)




