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 Program since 1996. Her interests and expertise are in the areas of art therapy assessment and treatment, art therapy education, research, and clinical supervision. . 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 as 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 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. Dr. Gerber has researched and published on doctoral level education for art therapists and has recently designed a Ph.D curriculum for the Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University.