Article: Resilience through Art: Art Therapy with Holocaust Survivors from the Former Soviet Union
Mariya Keselman, MA, ATR-BC, LPC – is a counseling and program manager and a creative arts therapist at KleinLife. She has worked in medical, psychiatric and community settings with individuals who experienced medical, mental health, complex trauma, collective trauma, genocide, persecution, and acculturation concerns. Keselman uses intersectional and social justice lenses, and a person-centered, trauma-informed approach in her practice. At Kleinlife, she is dedicating to providing holistic wellness, creative arts therapies and counseling services. She coordinates a program for Holocaust Survivors from the former Soviet Union, and conducts art therapy and counseling sessions with program participants.