Debra (BA, MA RATH) has worked as an art therapist since 1992. For the majority of these years her work has focused on political violence and torture as well as trauma, loss, change and social change. She has worked extensively both in London and in countries of war and upheaval. She has worked with both adults and children and, previous to this, in Israel, Canada, the USA and UK in many different working contexts. In addition to co-establishing (1994) and co-running the Art Therapy Initiative (ATI) she worked for eight years as a Senior Art Therapist and supervisor in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy team at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, North London. Debra also supervises, consults and trains other professionals in this work.

Debra has recently moved to Hong Kong and works as an art therapist primarily running groups in small local NGO’s and as an art therapy supervisor. In addition she continues to work internationally and to make her own art.

Debra is an HPC-registered Member of the British Association of Art Therapists and BAAT approved supervisor and a member of the Hong Kong Association of Art Therapists. She holds a Masters in Expressive Arts Therapies from Lesley University, Mass, USA.

Bobby is an artist and child and adolescent art therapist. As an art therapist her work has focused on family upheaval, loss and social change as well as political violence and trauma, both in the UK and in contexts of war and post-conflict abroad. In addition to co-founding and co-running the Art Therapy Initiative (ATI) since 1994, she was Senior Art Therapist in an NHS child and family consultation service in West London for seven years and, since 2003, has worked through group art therapy in schools in East London. She is an arts therapy supervisor, as well as visiting lecturer on a number of art therapy and child psychotherapy trainings.

As an artist, Bobby is particularly interested in processes of regeneration and change. She is co-founder of On Site Arts (2004) which works through photography in the London Olympic area with communities displaced from the site and in recording the changing physical landscape. Her most recent project is developing permanent art pieces for a new mixed-need housing development on an old hospital site in East London as well as recording the process of demolition and construction.

Bobby (BFA, dip FA, dip AT) is an HPC-registered Member of the British Association of Art Therapists and BAAT approved supervisor. She gained a post-graduate diploma in Art Therapy from Goldsmiths College, London University, 1992.