MIA BARKAN CLARKE is a working artist, a NYS Licensed, Registered & Board-Certified Creative Arts Therapist (ATR-BC, LCAT), a Board-Certified Professional Counselor (BCPC), and a Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association (DAPA). She holds a Master of Arts in Creative Arts Therapy from Hofstra University in Long Island, NY, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fabric Styling with a specialization in Woven Design and an Associates Degree in Textile/Surface Design from Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.

As an Art Therapist,

MIA has professional experiences working with a variety of populations including mentally, medically and physically challenged seniors, adults, adolescents and children.

MIA has worked at facilities such as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center, the Children's Learning Center (The United Cerebral Palsy Center), Sara's Center, Brunswick Psychiatric Hospital Center, Elmhurst Hospital Center (School-Based Mental Health Clinic at IS 145) (Mia is the 1st Art Therapist to have worked Full-Time in a Public School in New York state,) South Oaks Psychiatric Hospital Center in Amityville, and St. Francis Hospital Center (The Turning Point) in Beacon, NY.

MIA is an adjunct instructor of Art Therapy for undergraduate students at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, NY. Mia also lectures about Art Therapy for undergraduate psychology students at Touro College in Brooklyn and New York campuses and does Expressive Weaving workshops for graduate art therapy students at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY, the Creative Center for Women with Cancer in Manhattan and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY.

MIA has recently published a book called "My Sacred Circle Mandala Journal,"a creative workbook for self discovery and exploration, consisting of 28 different Mandala directives, including a "Recovery Mandala" and a "Stress-Be-Gone Mandala."


As a working artist,

MIA has illustrated multilingual poetry books for the international literary arts publisher Cross-Cultural Communications, has had a number of commissions for her paintings locally & abroad, and has exhibited her work at a number of venues, including a mother-daughter show exhibited at The Paterson Museum in Paterson, NJ and at The Stage Gallery in Merrick, Long Island.

MIA is multilingual (Italian, French, Hebrew) and a published poet--published several times in the Paterson Literary Review . She is currently working on a book including her Sisters of the World paintings, along with related poems. Her Sisters of the World concentration in mixed media is a celebration of ethnic, mythical, folkloric & biblical women, inviting the viewer into the psyche of women past, present and future.

MIA is also a jewelry designer & proprietor of
MIA...Hand-Sculpted Unique Jewelry including Kabbalalstones and Astrorunes collections sold in Judaica & New Age boutiques around the country, such as the National Jewish Museum, Washington D. C. & the Jewish Museum in New York City.

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