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| Home Page  Creative Affects is an emotional, intellectual, and physical process that allows the transition from the stagnant to the active. A noun becomes a verb. An idea becomes a reality. A desire becomes, a need is fulfilled, a wish appears, magic is manifested, and the outer surrenders to the inner! Michael Maloney is an artist, photographer, designer, and is a registered and board certified art and expressive therapist. He specializes in the field of trauma including the treatment of depression, PTSD, and anxiety disorders using artistic means rather than the traditional or familiar verbal therapeutic approaches. The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) is an organization of professionals dedicated to the belief that the creative process involved in art making is healing and life enhancing. Its mission is to serve its members and the general public by providing standards of professional competence, and developing and promoting knowledge in, and of, the field of art therapy (AATA, 2009). The Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB) "Michael Maloney is simply the best art therapist I have ever known. His creativity, clinical insight, and ability to connect with youth are without peer." Steven Gray, PhD, Neuropsychologist "Michael has such a wide range of talents and experiences, I don't know where to begin! He has a driving passion to apply his expertise as an expressive arts therapist and art therapist to change people's lives in so many ways. I think his incredible talent is in understanding and working with individuals-- particularly children and adolescents-- who others cannot reach. Michael synthesizes this skill with his knowledge of the arts and how the creative process brings about recovery. He has lived an amazing life, filled with powerful experiences that he brings to his work with people. And to his workshops and presentations on the transformative power of the expressive arts for recovery, health, and wellness. I value Michael as a colleague, as a fellow expressive therapist, as an artist, and as an explorer of new terrains on how arts heal." Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPAT, LPCC "One may often want to check out this web site! Michael Maloney is the most innovative expressive artist-clinician I have met. I know this as his mentor, teacher, co-worker, peer and friend. I have seen this in his many creative projects, as in a “WILL PAINT FOR FOOD” venture for the homeless, and witnessed as he literally risked himself in doing art and studying tattoos in a maximum security, death row prison. He created a program for mentally ill inmates and received an Ohio Governor’s PROGRAM OF THE YEAR AWARD. He continues his work healing wounded sexually abused adolescents with painting, expressive ‘shamanic’ drama, and inventive computer graphics. Michael Maloney’s artistry is never academic or routine, but flows beyond ‘the celibacy of the intellect’ like a psychic ultra-sound probe, it gently touches the deep and tender. “No probe so deep as art to seek and touch the heart”. He is a gifted artist and I look forward to seeing more of his private artwork as well as examples of the ‘work of art’ from his clinical practice in expressive art therapy!"Thus . . . E + Motion = Emotion “IN THE BEGINNING ART WAS MADE TO OVERCOME CHAOS!” Don Jones ATR-BC, HLM "Time and time again I think about our time together. I remember your voice, the images that I drew, the connections that you helped me make, and how you challenged me not to remain a victim. Michael, words are not enough! I thank you, I will NEVER forget you, and I want you to know that you may have helped me to save and change my life! Thank you ..." - Former client | |
| Dreamtime 2003 4' x 5' Acrylic Evolution 2009 18" x 36" Acrylic and Photoshop My newest paintings are forming connections without any effort on my part. This is so true of the therapeutic processes that my clients experience. Art and music are very magical arenas. Also, one does not heal in a vacuum. Healing requires reconnecting with the self and others Michael is a staff art / expressive therapist with the Children's Advocacy Center of Collin County since 1999 and specializes in working with abused adolsecents. Mr. Maloney has also presented nationally at the 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2008 American Art Therapy Association Nationsl Conferences and has provided weekend workshops at the following Graduate level learning institutions: Mount Mary College, Nazareth College, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and theOhio University campases in Chilicothe and Athens. | | Creative Affects
Michael Maloney, MA.E.T., ATR-BC
Dallas, TX 75287 Important links: AATA ATCB - Art Therapy Credentials Board Art Therapy Alliance Digital art therapy (DAT) Trauma and Loss Expressive Media, Inc. Tania Cordobes: www.cdbaby.com/all/taniacordo During 2009 I created a series of paintings iin response to the music of Tania Cordobes. We would set up in coffee shops, small cafe's, and a few nightclubs. Tania and her group playes, sang, and I just painted what I heard. 
Sometimes, when making art strange or unplanned things happen. This painting (above) actually connects in three different combinations. I will let the viewer try and find the third connection. I don't create art or provide therapy in a vaccuum. There is always an interaction between the therapist and the client, the artist and the audience, the paint and the canvas, and the image and the sound. Art and music are forms of communications that began in the primal brain thousands and thousands of years ago. We are now just being able to connect the dots about sensory stimulis and neurological responses or reactions. | |
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