Peggy L. Kolodny, M.A., ATR-BC, CPC
Peggy is a Board Certified and registered Art Therapist who received her Masters Degree in Art Therapy from George Washington University in 1982. She has diverse clinical experience working as a primary art therapist with all ages and diagnostic populations. She was Executive Director of a nonprofit agency, The Family Connection, Inc., that specialized in trauma treatment and started a private practice 15 years ago in Owings Mills, Md. Recently, she began leading an art therapy group for Jewish sexual abuse survivors through the Shofar Coalition under the Associated and CHANA.
To enhance her effectiveness as a trauma therapist, Peggy joined the Central Md. Sexual Abuse Treatment Task Force in 1987 and became its chairperson from 1997-2002. While on the Task Force sub-committee, Peggy helped write guidelines for the treatment of sexual abuse. She also joined the American Professional Association on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and APSAC-MD, co-chairing the local chapter from 1996-1998. Further, Peggy was President of the Maryland Art Therapy Association and has served on the board in various roles for over 25 years.
Peggy brings 27 years of experience working with trauma survivors, from toddlers through adulthood, to her lectures and extensive teaching. She has been a guest lecturer for many of Towson University’s “Introduction to Art Therapy” courses. She was an Adjunct Faculty member at Maryland Institute, College of Art, and for Goucher College’s Graduate Art Therapy Program. She has been a guest lecturer at various colleges in Maryland and surrounding states, and has also taught art therapy and trauma treatment workshops in various settings.
Currently, Peggy is in her fourth year as an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Maryland’s School of Social Work, teaching “Art Therapy in Clinical Social Work”, an advanced graduate course. She is in her 11th year on the faculty of the Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars, an institute for the registration of play therapists (RPT), teaching “Art & Play Therapy in Sexual Abuse Treatment”, among other workshops. Peggy trains foster parents through the Child Welfare Academy, co-sponsored by SSW/Md. Dept. of Human Resources with her workshops, “Foster Parenting Sexually Abused Children and Adolescents.”
