(Re-broadcast) Expression in Recovery: Exploring the Role of Creative Arts to Heal

About the Instructor

Samantha Jakus, MS, is a Creative Arts Therapist at The Renfrew Center of Philadelphia – Center City. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Dance from Temple University and her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology in Art Therapy from Holy Family University. Ms. Jakus specializes in offering various modalities of reconnecting to the body—both physically and psychologically—by increasing one’s sense of physical and spatial awareness, enhancing present tense awareness and creating new positive attachments that can be incorporated into one’s current life. Prior to joining Renfrew, she toured nationally and internationally as a member of the STREB Extreme Action Company, alongside providing movement education to the community. Ms. Jakus is a member of the American Art Therapy Association and the Holy Family University Art Therapy Accreditation Committee.