Our Faculty
Dr. Sue Ann Herron, Director
Sue Ann Herron, Ph.D. is the Director and Executive Faculty of the two-year Person-Centered Expressive Arts Program titled Expressive Arts for Healing and Social Change. She is on the faculty of Existential, Humanistic, & Transpersonal Psychology at Saybrook University and Meridian University and previously taught the PCEAT program at Sofia University.
Dr. Herron has co-facilitated PCEAT training programs with Dr. Natalie Rogers for psychology students, educators, counselors, and healthcare professionals from around the world. She completed a clinical postdoctoral fellowship at AgeSong in San Francisco where she enjoyed using PCEAT with the community of elders. In addition, she has led PCEAT workshops for women’s spirituality groups, teenagers, and bereaved children.
Dr. Herron’s dissertation, Natalie Rogers: An Experiential Psychology of Self-Realization Beyond Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, was published in 2010. As Natalie Rogers’s official biographer, one of Dr. Herron’s professional goals is to chronicle and elevate Natalie Rogers’ work through her scholarly historical and biographical study and to promote her legacy and teachings around the world.
The Person-Centered Expressive Arts program has been life changing for many people. Contact our Executive Director, Dr. Sue Ann Herron to discuss whether the program is right for you.
PCEA Interns
Ng Ho Cheung, MSc, BA (Hons), Registered Person-Centered Psychotherapist (UKCP), REAT® (IEATA®)
Ng Ho Cheung (HC) is a registered Person-Centered Psychotherapist with the UK Council for Psychotherapy and a registered Expressive Arts Therapist with the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. Based in Hong Kong, HC completed his Master of Science in Contemporary Person-Centered Psychotherapy and Applications at the Metanoia Institute in the U.K. He also trained in Person-Centered Expressive Arts with Dr Natalie Rogers and Dr Sue Ann Herron.
HC is passionate about creative processes, including Kintsugi, ceramics, Nerikomi, dance, and harp. He presented his arts-based research project, Kintsugi: Mending the Fragments of the Memories, at the Association for Person Centered Creative Arts (U.K.) conference in 2022, where he explored the therapeutic potential of Kintsugi in supporting individuals to hold and transform their lived experiences.
Yoshie Kubota, BA, MM
Yoshie Kubota, BA, MM holsa BA in Music from the Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Japan, M.M., Master of Music in Piano Performance: Mannes College of Music New York. Yoshi is a Certified Person-Centered Expressive Arts Facilitator 2020 from PCEA Institute, USA. She completed Integral Expressive Arts Therapist Training and Expressive Arts Therapy Technical Intensive Training: Atelier Ys.