Patricia Welch earned a master’s degree in Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy and Art Therapy at the Adler Graduate School in Minnesota in 2018. Patricia studied Fine Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design graduating 2014. Patricia has worked with urban American Indian adolescents for the last 25 years. Her work included utilizing theater as a gang intervention, creating a Native American Doula program for adolescents and adults, facilitating culturally focused parenting and adolescent groups, and therapeutic arts with individuals and groups. Pat has presented at numerous workshops and conferences locally and nationally, focusing on the wholistic approach to healing through creative art therapy related to historical, and intergeneration trauma. Patricia utilizes expressive art therapies and talk therapy within an integrated approach including AIR network to address issues such as trauma, depression, anxiety, and Dissociative Identity Disorder. She believes that Art therapy is a tool to make the invisible, visible.