Judith Alalú Langnas

Judith Alalu, Ph.D. is an expressive arts therapist, educator, and researcher with over 25 years of clinical experience. She holds a Ph.D. in Expressive Arts Therapy from the European Graduate School (Switzerland) and a Licentiate in Clinical Psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She also completed a one-year specialized training in Clinical Music Therapy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, under the guidance of a renowned music therapist.

Judith founded TAE Perú, the first school of Expressive Arts Therapy in Peru, where she directed and taught from 2005 to 2019. She has been a faculty member at the European Graduate School and other international programs, and she currently teaches in the Master’s program Embodiment-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy for Trauma at the Poiesis Institute in Barcelona. Her doctoral research focused on vitality and the contributions of expressive arts therapy to vital processes of human experience.

She is co-author of Pain and Beauty (Editorial TAE Perú), where she wrote the chapter on deformation and vitality, and co-author of Vital Exodus, a book combining her visual work with poetry. She has also published several articles in Poiesis journal.

From her own creative process, Judith has developed two solo exhibitions: Deformation (exploring the theme of deformation) and Vital (digital images on vitality). Both themes have deeply informed her therapeutic and academic work. She is currently investigating the intersections between relational psychoanalysis, expressive arts, and the notions of vitality and encounter.