Lucia de Urioste Bejaran

Lucia de Urioste Bejarano (MA) has a Master in Expressive Arts Therapy from the European Graduate School and is currently participating in the Doctoral program. As well, she holds a bachelor in Creative Writing and specializations in Systemic  and Community Therapy and various trainings in trauma informed body/somatic centered approaches. 

Currently she is the student advisor and assistant for the program coordinators of the Master and PHD programs. As well, she currently holds a position as an instructor and supervisor in the Expressive Arts partner institute in Vancouver. And is involved  as clinical supervisor in a community based agency. 

Lucia has experience as a practitioner working with children, youth, adults and families in community based agencies and private practice since 2008. Her experience supervising practitioners started in 2018 and she has had various opportunities as instructor since 2020. Through this work she has firsthand experience in the challenges and the resources for practitioners working with clients and communities who have experienced violence, complex and intergenerational trauma and marginalized situations. Lucia´s guiding frame is informed by our innate ability to heal, the strength of community that comes from reciprocity, our identity, culture and heritage; and the healing guidance of the arts as a collaborative practice to process, learn, deconstruct and integrate.  

Lucia is particularly interested in aesthetic approaches to nourishment and sustainability within a micro capacity that intersects with communal and reciprocal environments, that are connected to a phenomenological approach to the world.