Elizabeth Graham Anderson
Specialized Teaching Faculty
Clinical Coordinator
Art Therapy
Elizabeth Graham Anderson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC is Specialized Teaching Faculty and Clinical Coordinator in the graduate Art Therapy program at Florida State University. She applies a post-structural style of teaching, mentoring, and practice with special attention to the ongoing changes and entanglements of identity. Clinically, she specializes in art therapy with children and adolescents with/in school-based systems. Experiences as an art therapist in medical settings, private practice, and community spaces also influence her mentoring and teaching. She has supervised art therapists and counselors; and has taught courses in art therapy and art education. Her research interests include collage, art therapists’ identities, arts-based research approaches, and post structural perspectives in research and practice.
Contact
Education
Ph.D., Art Education, Art Therapy major, Florida State University
M.S., Art Therapy, Florida State University
B.S., Art Education, Francis Marion University
Teaching Areas
Psychopathology in Art Therapy & Counseling: Diagnosis & Treatment
Practicum/Internship
Therapeutic Artmaking: Studio, Media, & Self-Care
Research Areas
Collage & poststructural theory
Art therapist professional identity
Arts-based research
Select Works
Graham Anderson, E. (2025). Construction-deconstruction-reconstruction: Collage as a postmodern approach to art therapy. In D. Gussak & M. Rosal (Eds). Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy, 2nd Edition. Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Graham, E. R. & Gussak, D. E. (2023). Collage as Epistemology: Construction—Deconstruction—Reconstruction. Visual Arts Research., 49 (1).
Franklin, M., Graham, E., Gussak, D., Malhotra, B. (2023, Nov.) Democratizing Scholarly Writing in Art Therapy. In American Art Therapy Association’s, AATA’s Annual Conference Creativity, Curiosity, Compassion, (pp. 53). American Art Therapy Association. arttherapy.org/annual-conferences.
Gussak, D. & Graham, E. (2022, Nov.) Becoming “The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence.” Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Conference of the American Art Therapy Association on-line proceedings.
Gussak, D., Odom, E., & Soape, E. (2023). Interacting through art to re-empower prison inmates in constructing new self-appraisals. In Using art for social transformation (1st Ed., Pp. 94–106). Routledge.