Makiko Young

Makiko Young, MA, MPS-ATR-LCAT-BC, is a NY state licensed art therapist (and soon to be board certified) and a director of creative arts therapies program at Housing Works’s E9th st Adult Day Health Care Program in NYC. Housing Works offers diverse services and care for people who are living w/ HIV and AIDS with history of mental illness, substance use, homelessness, etc. Ms. Harada holds MA in health education from Teachers College, Columbia University and MPS in art therapy from Pratt Institute.

Ms. Young was recently featured by Newsweek Japan as one of the 100 Japanese Women: Shakers and Movers in the world. She met with Princess Stephanie of Monaco and explained the benefits of art therapy.

Art Therapy: A Way to Improve Our Health

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For more than 50 years, art therapy has been in existence in the United States and Europe. What about in Asia? Although there has been an emergence of a movement to practice art therapy in Asia, art therapy is not yet fully established and recognized. For example, in Japan, there is currently no graduate schools … Read more