Contact Information

Title: Director, Art Therapy Education and Associate Clinical Professor
Discipline: Art Therapy
Degrees: Ph.D, ATR-BC, LPC
Office Location: Rm 1036 Bellet Building
Phone: 215-762-6928
Fax: 215-762-6933
Email: ng27@drexel.edu

Dr. Gerber has more than 20 years of psychiatric clinical art therapy experience with adults and adolescents. She has been Director of the Art Therapy Education program since 1996. Her interests and expertise are in the areas of art therapy assessment and treatment, art therapy education, research, and clinical supervision. Dr. Gerber developed the Brief Art Therapy Screening Evaluation (BATSE) as a means for assessing psychological problems of patients in a short-term psychiatric treatment setting. In addition she has presented locally, nationally and internationally on subjects such as: art therapy assessment, developmental art therapy approaches, the use of induced feelings and imagery for the purpose of understanding counter-transference phenomena in art therapy, doctoral level education for art therapists, and mixed methods research in art therapy . At the national professional level, Dr. Gerber has served as the Chair of the Accreditation Task force for the American Art Therapy Association and currently serves as the Chair of the Continuing Education Committee . Within the university Dr. Gerber serves as the Vice Chair of the Social and Behavioral Science Institutional Review Board at Drexel University Service at the college level in the past has included chairing the Graduate Curriculum Committee, chairing an Ad Hoc Committee on Interdisciplinary Course Offerings, and participating as a member of the Research Committee. Currently she serves on the Non-Tenure Track Promotions Committee. Her research interests are in the area of doctoral education for art therapists, arts based education, and mixed methods research in art therapy. Her doctoral research entitled The Essential Components of Doctoral Level Education for Art Therapists was conducted in order to prepare for the introduction of a doctoral level program for arts therapists in the near future. This research project was recently published in the Arts in Psychotherapy journal.