East Bay Art Therapy, 55 Santa Clara Avenue Suite 220, Oakland, CA (2026)

06/23/2026

🎵 Hiring Music or Expressive Arts Therapist! 🎶

Location: San Mateo, CA

East Bay Art Therapy is excited to announce a new job opportunity!

We are looking for a qualified Music Therapist or Expressive Arts Therapist to facilitate groups with adolescents and adults at an in-patient psychiatry/behavioral health unit in San Mateo, CA.

🎹 The ideal candidate has confidence, experience, & passion for facilitating groups with adolescents & Adults in psychiatric care.

In this position, you will join a diverse team of Creative Arts Therapists that share the common goal of providing trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and client-centered care.

🎸 This is a 30+ hrs/week full time position with competitive pay and benefits.

Current (or eligibility for) Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) credential or the Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT) credential .🎼

🥁 To read the full job description, visit: https://www.eastbayarttherapy.com/job-postings/music-therapist-or-expressive-arts-therapist

🎤 To apply, email resume and cover letter to [email protected].

We look forward to meeting you!

06/19/2026

EBAT'S Creative Arts Therapy Hospital Program

🎨🎭🎶 Did you know that we provide Creative Arts Therapy services in hospital settings?

Our team offers Art Therapy, Drama Therapy, and Music Therapy within adolescent and adult behavioral health units, bringing creativity, connection, and emotional support to individuals during some of life's most challenging moments.

Creative Arts Therapists work alongside multidisciplinary treatment teams to help patients process emotions, build coping skills, reduce stress, and express experiences that can be difficult to put into words.

One of our hospital placements is at Mills-Peninsula Hospital.

Check out what our therapists have to say about their role and the meaningful impact of providing patient support through Creative Arts Therapy.

👉 For more information on our Community Partnerships programming, visit https://www.eastbayarttherapy.com/services/community-partnerships

06/11/2026

Now Enrolling… Young adult Art Therapy Group (ages 18-26) all genders in Oakland, CA!

This group is for young adults navigating transitions to adulthood.

Join a supportive creative space where art, reflection, & discussion support Identity, relationships, and pressures of school and work, including addressing mental health issues such as depression & anxiety. 🎨

🖌️ Explore and create in a BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disability, and neurodivergent-affirming environment.

We are Regional Center Vendors as well!

Facilitated by Aurora Daigle, MPS, ATR-P (she/her)

www.eastbayarttherapy.com/groups

👉 Learn more & Sign up!

06/04/2026

Discover the Creative Process Behind the Art Therapist!

EBAT Art Therapist Jess Matos shares her reflections on creativity, healing, and the therapeutic process with clients.

🎨 What is your approach/style as an Art Therapist working with clients?

“ I believe art is a universal language, one that connects us beyond words. Each session is an open, creative space where art becomes play and exploration without pressure or expectation. Through the process, thoughts and emotions rise to the surface, creating space for insight, reflection, and self-discovery. My role is to hold a safe, supportive space and gently guide you through what is present, what is emerging, and what is possible. You don’t have to do it alone.”

🫶 What do you love most about the work you do as an Art Therapist?

“There is something profoundly powerful about watching someone move from disconnection or self-doubt into clarity, expression, and empowerment through art. Through creating, people rediscover meaning, purpose, and who they truly are. Witnessing that transformation never gets old.”

🖌️ Tell us how your personal Art supports your own Well-being.

“My paintings and inner exploratory process live between control and surrender, the known and the unknown. I create intuitively, allowing each piece to unfold layer by layer. It’s a process of trusting, exploring, and making the invisible visible. I invite myself to question, feel, and find my own meaning."

🩷 Want to explore how the creative process can support your well-being?

Schedule a Therapist Matching Call to work with an Art Therapist on our website:

https://www.eastbayarttherapy.com/match-me-with-a-therapist.

06/02/2026

🎨 Middle School Art Therapy Group (ages 11–14) at EBAT in our Oakland, CA office.

🖌️ For girls, genderqueer, non-binary, and trans youth.

This art therapy support group integrates art making, journaling, and talk therapy.

During this group, support for anxiety, depression, neurodivergence & life transitions will be explored.

Students will gain support with emotional expression, increasing coping skills, self-esteem, identity awareness, and managing stress.

Tuesdays 4:15-5:45pm, 10-week closed group, max 8 in group

Now enrolling, Next Summer Series starts soon!

😎 To sign up visit our website

https://www.eastbayarttherapy.com/groups/middle-school-art-therapy-group

05/28/2026

🖌️ Therapeutic art making can deepen the clinical process beyond words.

Learn more about our Therapeutic Art Making in Clinical Practice for Non-Art Therapists.

What may feel difficult for clients to verbalize can sometimes become more accessible through image, color, movement, and creative expression.

Art making offers a bottom-up, somatic approach that can support safety, communication, emotional processing, insight, and connection within the therapeutic relationship.

🎨 Learning Objectives:

-Identify and describe the role of art-making as a theoretically grounded clinical intervention.
-State the difference between “art therapy” and “therapeutic art making”.
-Identify when certain art materials are appropriate for clients based on presenting issues.
-Identify arts-based treatment goals for clients based on the Expressive Therapies Continuum.
-Learn and experience 4 art activities appropriate for use with varied clinical populations.

We customize our professional development workshops to cater to the population you work with.

Shout out to Fred Finch Youth Center and Family Services , where we provided this professional development training to their clinicians.

This was co-facilitated by Tonia Herrero, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, ATCS, and Theresa Hong, MPS, ATR, Psychosis expert.

We gave clinicians hands-on experience with creative interventions that can be thoughtfully integrated into clinical work with individuals experiencing psychosis symptoms.

If you would like to bring Therapeutic Art for Non-Art Therapists training to your agency, check out our website to learn more!

05/19/2026

What a record executive shared about the power of Art & creating!

“Art allows people a way to dream outside of their struggle.”

This quote reflects Simmons’ view of art as both a personal escape and a tool for envisioning a better future. He describes art as a kind of “pressure valve” and “ladder,” something that helps people survive the present while imagining and creating the life they want.

In many ways, this mirrors the heart of art therapy. 🎨

Sometimes people cannot simply think or push their way through anxiety, depression, trauma, or emotional overwhelm. Art offers another language.

Through imagery, color, texture, and creative expression, individuals can safely explore emotions, release inner pressure, process experiences, and reconnect with hope, meaning, and possibility.

The emphasis on “dream” rather than “think” is powerful.
It gives permission to imagine beyond current circumstances.

To envision healing and reconnect with parts of the self that may have felt silenced, disconnected, or lost.

🖌️ Art therapy is not about artistic skill or perfection.

It is about expression, reflection, imagination, & transformation within a supportive therapeutic space.

At EBAT, our art therapists believe creativity can support emotional healing, resilience, self-understanding, and moving through limiting beliefs.

🖤 Learn more about our art therapy services at eastbayarttherapy.com.

🩷 Schedule a Therapist Matching Call to get started today.

05/14/2026

New Staff Alert! ⚡Join us in welcoming Nox to our Private Practice Team!

🎨 Meet Jess Matos
MA, ATR (She/Her)

Jess Matos is a Registered Art Therapist (ATR) with over 14 years of clinical experience.

Jess utilizes a humanistic, transpersonal, & solution-focused approach while incorporating to create a personalized therapeutic experience.

She is passionate about working with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, stress, and identity exploration; across diverse clinical settings to process emotions, build resilience, and reconnect with their inner strengths.

Jess specializes in children 4+, adolescents, and adults with depression, anxiety, autism, developmental and intellectual disabilities, ADHD, codependency, chronic pain and illness, self-esteem issues, life transitions, creative professionals, and the LGBTQIA+ population.

Jess is the facilitator for our Depression & Anxiety group "Creative Expressions for Healing and Renewal. Accepting participants now!

Jess is available to see clients ages 4+ at our Oakland Office or virtually on Tuesdays to Saturdays. Jess offers therapy in English & Spanish.

Jess is also our Intake Coordinator supporting you to find the services that best fit your needs here at EBAT.

👉 If you are interested in working with Jess 1:1or in a art therapy group, schedule a therapist matching call today!

https://www.eastbayarttherapy.com/match-me-with-a-therapist

ATR #18-515

05/12/2026

New Staff Alert! ⚡Join us in welcoming Nox to our Private Practice Team!

🎨 Meet Nox Ngo
MA, AMFT, ATR-P (They/Them)

Nox is a genderfluid Chinese American Art Therapist and Marriage & Family Therapist.

Art has been their saving grace in a world full of twists and turns, allowing them an expression of self that they often were not able to have in everyday life.

Nox's therapeutic approach is person-centered and strength-based, as they believe everyone has the capacity to be and grow into whoever they want to be.

They utilize mindfulness, psychoeducation, CBT, and aspects of DBT. They have worked with children from ages 4-13 as well as adults 18+, and they are excited about filling the gap of ages 13-18.
They specialize in Anxiety, Depression, BPD, OCD, and neurodivergence.

Nox is available to see individuals ages 4 and up, both virtually and at our San Jose office, on Sundays, Mondays, & Tuesdays.

👉 If you are interested in working with Nox 1:1, schedule a therapist matching call today!

https://www.eastbayarttherapy.com/match-me-with-a-therapist

ATR-P #24-203
AMFT #144803 (CA)
Supervised by Ingrid Jimenez, LMFT #77368

05/07/2026

New adult Art Therapy Group! 🎨 Now Enrolling!

Our Creative Expression for Healing and Renewal group offers a supportive, non-judgmental environment where you can explore your inner experience through art, mindfulness, and reflection.

No pressure. No expectations. No need to “be good” at art.
Just space to create. Space to process what has been carried for too long.

🖌️ Through guided artmaking and grounding practices, you may begin to experience:

• Greater emotional clarity & self-awareness
• Tools to regulate your nervous system & manage overwhelm
• Creative ways to express thoughts & feelings when words fall short
• A sense of connection with others who understand
• More ease, meaning, & personal agency in your day-to-day life

You are not alone in what you are carrying.
And healing does not have to happen in isolation.

Art Therapy Anxiety and Depression Support Group, member enrollment is capped at 8. Limited Spots available.

Fridays 4:00–5:30pm
In-person in Oakland
10-week group
Facilitated by Jess Matos, MS, ATR (she/her)

Enrolling now!
🩷 Secure your spot today.
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