For more information, contact:
Dr. Wednesdae Reim Ifrach, REAT簧, ATR-BC簧, ATCS, LPC, NCC, CLAT, RMT, CDD, CCTP, CGP, CSTFP
MAEC Program Coordinator
reimifrachw@moravian.edu
expressiveart@moravian.edu
Dr. Wednesdae Reim Ifrach is an expressive art therapist, counselor, researcher, and poet whose work bridges clinical, creative, and community-based practices. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates art and poetry with clinical and somatic inquiry, centering death work, gender-affirming care, LGBTQ+ issues, trauma-informed practice, body image, and eating disorders. They are the co-owner of Rainbow Recovery and Art & Alchemy, where they provide clinical counseling, art therapy, supervision, training, and consultation.
A leader in queer-affirming eating disorder treatment, Dr. Wednesdae founded the nations first 2sLGBTQIA+ Virtual Eating Disorder Program, ensuring that queer individuals could access care with providers who share and affirm their identities. Their commitment to community healing is also reflected in their contributions to survivor-led art projects such as the Monument Quilt, now housed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and MoMAs Artful Practices for Well-Being series.
They have presented workshops and training nationally and internationally, including at the Expressive Art Therapy Summit, American Art Therapy Association, GLMA, MEDA, the National Alliance for Eating Disorders, Yale University, Smith College, and the Longmore Institute of Disabilities at SFSU. Their expertise has also been featured in Dazed magazines article on somatic therapy and eating disorders.
Wednesdaes scholarship includes peer-reviewed articles such as:
- Social Action Art Therapy as an Intervention for Compassion Fatigue(Arts in Psychotherapy)
- Inked Identity: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Tattoos as Body Reclamation, Gender Affirmation, and Healing (Human Arena).
- Mannequin-based artmaking as Queer embodied autoethnography (International Journal of Art Therapy)
- Art therapy with Jungian archetypes and collage for queer body image healing (Journal of Creative Art Therapies)
They are the author of:
- I Learned to Paint the Body that Finally Felt like Home: Body Liberation and Queer Worldmaking in Art Therapy Eating Disorder Treatment in Queer Worldmaking in Art Therapy (Routledge)
- Queer Expressions: Expressive Art and Somatic Therapy Practices for Healing Body Trauma (North Atlantic Books).
- Narrative Ownership, Storytelling, and the Politics of Voice; Operationalizing Trauma Through A Trauma-Informed Lens (IGI Global)
Alongside their scholarly contributions, Dr. Wednesdaes creative workpoetry, painting, and sculpturehas been published and exhibited widely. Their art has appeared in Beyond Words Magazine and the Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, and their poetry has been published in journals including the Words Faire and Etched Onyx Publications.
Whether through therapy, teaching, writing, or the gallery, Dr. Wednesdaes work creates spaces of radical care, resilience, and creative possibility.
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