About Gail Elkin-Scott

Gail Elkin-Scott is a Board Certified, Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC) and a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT) in New York State. She holds a Masters Degree in Art Therapy and Creativity Development from Pratt Institute where she was given the Pratt Institute Gate Keeper Award for leadership in campus life. Her undergraduate degree in Human Development is from Cornell University. With her background in human development, Gail sees art as essential to forming and exploring the self.

Since 1988, Gail has been using various creative modalities to engage groups and individuals in their own development, healing, and education.  Gail maintains a private practice in Manhattan.

She has worked in:

       in-patient psychiatric and neuro-psychiatric units

       parent's and intergenerational community groups

       geriatric residential and community programs

       trauma response and recovery

       international adult education

In many of these settings Gail has developed programs, trained and supervised staff, and provided mentoring to new professionals.

Her own art activities are equally as varied with an emphasis on collage mixed media.  More recently, she has learned rigid heddle weaving and is beginning to incorporate her spinning and weaving work into fine art in addition to craft.