Profiles

Eileen K. Douglas, PhD, LPC-ACS, ATR-BC, ATCS, Core Counseling Faculty

Dr. Eileen Douglas, LPC-ATCS, ATR-BC, ATCS is an alumna of the EVMS Art Therapy and Counseling Program class of 2010. She is a Board-Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), and Art Therapy Credentialed Supervisor (ATCS). Eileen completed a doctorate in Counseling (CACREP) at Oregon State University. She is a member of the American Counseling Association Foundation's (ACAF) Board of Trustees. Eileen’s specialties include mindfulness, mindfulness-based art therapy, ethics, and cultural humility.

Eileen’s professional experience has focused on culturally humble individual and group art therapy and counseling services with adolescents and adults. She began her professional career providing group art therapy to a diverse population of children and adolescents at Rappahannock Juvenile Detention Center in Stafford, VA. Eileen returned to the Tidewater area in 2013 to establish art therapy at Commonwealth ChalleNGe Youth Academy, where she was promoted to Lead Counselor. Eileen later sought to extend her clinical experience to art therapy and counseling with undergraduate and graduate students at Norfolk State University where she focused on brief, solution-focused services, and received training in EMDR.

Eileen joined the EVMS Art Therapy & Counseling, MS full-time faculty in 2017. She is passionate about utilizing art therapy and counseling to enact social justice. She has developed and facilitated numerous community arts projects, including Beneath the Surface: Visual Conversations of Race in Hampton Roads, Visual Conversations: Exploring Privilege and Oppression, and Racism is a Public Health Crisis: We Must Articulate, Review, and Tackle (A.R.T.). Her research focuses on evaluating these community arts programs, along with an exploration of the intersection of mindfulness and art. She is trained to teach Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).