Phil Weglarz
Associate Professor and Program Chair
Expressive Arts Therapy
School of Professional Psychology and Health
Email: pweglarz@ciis.edu
Biography
Phil Weglarz has served as core faculty in the Expressive Arts Therapy concentration at CIIS since Fall 2012. As a licensed California Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) and Registered Expressive Art Therapist (REAT), Phil's work has focused on the integration of a wide range of artistic and cultural practices in meeting the mental health needs of children, adults, families, and communities. Clinically, he has worked with neuro and culturally-diverse children and adults in medical and psychiatric hospitals, foster care, group homes, after-school programs, and in a studio-based private practice.
Research Interests
Phil's research interests include the conceptualization and training of multimodal arts therapies to meet the needs of increasingly diverse student practitioners and mental health recipients. As a result, Phil's current research focuses on multicultural and social justice counseling, education, and supervision; interdisciplinary and step-wise practice models of multimodal arts therapies; and participatory and transformative research methodology.
Education
M.A., California Institute of Integral Studies
B.A., University of Colorado
Courses
- History & Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy
- Clinical Applications of Expressive Arts Therapy
- Arts in Therapy I & II
- Pre-practicum in Social Engagement (Supervisor, GLIDE.org partnership)
- EXA Integrative Seminar (hybrid course)