Tiffany Rikard completed her Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Appalachian State University. While attending Appalachian, she completed certificates in Expressive Arts Therapy and Systemic Multicultural Counseling. Now a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in the Counseling Education and Supervision program, Tiffany incorporates expressive arts therapy in her counseling work at a non-profit community center providing mental health services to individuals in the Charlotte area. She has given talks about the integration of expressive arts therapy in the treatment of trauma while visiting Bahir Dar University in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia and DePaul College in Mysore, India. When Tiffany isn’t working, she enjoys spending time with her husband, children, and two kittens.
