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OEATA Annual 2025 Panel Discussion: Navigating Expressive Arts Therapy and the Regulatory Scope of Practice

June 3, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm


REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/3EQhVH0

With Julia Tribe, ExAT; Jasper Bryan, ExAT; Alana McCleod, ExAT and Vitina Filiberto, RP, ExAT

Learning Objectives:

  1. What to consider when establishing an EXAT practice.
  2. How to create an EXAT arts-based practice
  3. How to develop an EXAT practice that falls within the Regulatory Scope of Practice.

What may participants take away from the Panel Discussion?

  1. Participants will gain insight into the practical steps for establishing an EXAT practice.
  2. Explore creative strategies for building arts-based practices within the expressive arts field
  3. Consider what constitutes the controlled act of psychotherapy
  4. Participants will be inspired by EXAT professionals, and how to champion their expressive arts practice

    2 hour CEC’s available upon submission of panel evaluation.

Panelist Biographies

Jasper Bryan, ExAT
Jasper Bryan (he/they) is a queer expressive arts therapist, facilitator, multimodal artist, and author. He is a leader in Torontos 2SLGBTQIA community, exploring the intersections of art and mental health to empower everybody. Jasper is the founder of Queer Art Therapy, where he supports clients individually, as well as runs groups and workshops for various organizations. Jasper loves glitter, arts and crafts, and rainbows! You can find out more about Jasper on his website, www.queerarttherapy.com, or instagram @queerarttherapy.

Vitina Filiberto, RP, ExAT
Vitina Filiberto (she/her) is a Registered Psychotherapist and Expressive Arts Therapist based in Toronto, offering virtual sessions to individuals through her private practice. With a deep passion for human behaviour and development, she is driven by our fundamental need for love, safety, and belonging. Beyond her work as a therapist, Vitina is a poet, writer, and visual artist who believes in the transformative power of the arts. She sees creative expression as a cathartic outlet and a valuable resource during times of difficulty and transition. This passion led her to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from York University and a Diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy from The Create Institute.

While her formal education has shaped her knowledge, Vitina’s greatest teachers have been her own lived experiences-navigating trauma, relationships, infertility, adoption, parenthood, grief, and bereavement. Most recently, her journey through breast cancer and survivorship has further deepened her understanding of resilience and healing. These experiences allow her to bring an empathetic, and non-judgmental approach to her work, supporting clients with honesty and compassion.

Alana McLeod, ExAT
I am an expressive arts therapist and trauma therapist currently residing and practicing in Sudbury, Ontario. I have a diploma in expressive arts therapy from The CREATE Institute in Toronto, Ontario and a Master’s degree in expressive arts therapy, with a minor in psychology from The European Graduate School in Sass- Fee, Switzerland. I have also completed Level 1 & 2  in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy from the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. I am committed to expanding my range of skills and knowledge in the field of psychotherapy and human relationships.

In broadening my range of knowledge and skills I have taken a variety of additional training in gender issues within the 2SLGBTQ+ communities, shame and trauma, addiction, grief & bereavement, suicide as well as the arts and Indigenous ways of knowing and being in relation to healing.

I am particularly interested in empowerment through different ways of storytelling, through body movement, visual art, writing, voice work, film and photography and music making. I am also concerned with the impacts our socioeconomic and environmental positions have on health.

Juia Tribe, ExAT
JULIA TRIBE (She/Her) Julia Tribe is an Expressive Arts Therapist (ExAT), educator and artist, dedicated in providing collaborative art-based experiences for people of all ages, backgrounds, and capacities. Building on an extensive career as theatre designer, she brings an ability to shape spaces, adorn characters and explore alternative narratives, strengthening her capacity to use the creative process as a therapeutic tool for transformation and healing. In 2015 Julia graduating from
the CREATE Institute and then in 2017 earned a Masters in Expressive Arts Therapy with a minor inPsychology from EGS. This expanding her practice to respond to the unique needs of individual clients and groups through a personalized, multimodal approach with true therapeutic outcomes.

Her education along with lived experience as a dyslexic thinker helping others move beyond previously restrictive situations, using the arts as an alternative language where creative expression can shape adversities into clear, emotional form. Her goal always, to meet clients where they are at through empathetic engagement and believes passionately that the arts can facilitate personal & social change. Presently, Julia is exploring Tribal Theory Global as a therapeutic framework embracing the genius of anxiety, depression, and trauma within the authentic self.