Christianne Strang, PhD, ATR-BC

Art Therapist

Christianne (Chris) is an artist, art therapist and scientist with a Master of Arts in Art Therapy from Vermont College of Norwich University in Montpelier, Vermont. She holds a Doctorate in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Chris has nearly 20 years experience with all types of emotional struggles, yet her primary professional focus is the treatment of eating disorders and sexual abuse. She was the Art Therapist for nearly five years at The Renfrew Center in Florida, an internationally respected residential eating-disorder treatment facility.

She is an accomplished speaker, giving talks and hosting workshops on the power of art therapy in work with body image and neuroscience.

Chris believes in the potential of each and every one – that we’re all capable of much more than we think. She works with clients to develop a creative space in which they can explore those unchartered capabilities and feel without fear.

“I approach all of these ideas with the use of art as an avenue to learning and growth,” Chris says.

Growth is constantly occurring throughout the flourishing gardens and lawns of Chris’ home, where she’s discovered gardening is therapeutic. Inside her home is a clan of dogs that “flunked out of obedience school” and several works of art underway.