Wednesdae holds a master's Degree in Art Therapy from Albertus Magnus College and is currently a PhD candidate at Saybrook University.
They previously served on the CT DCF Youth Advisory Board as well as the former President of the Connecticut Art Therapy Association, and they served as a Board Member with Project HEAL, the nation’s only Eating Disorder Treatment Equity Access based Non-profit.
They have held many positions throughout their career including clinical supervisor, program director, creator of multiple IOP/PHPs, and lead art therapist. Regardless of the position, they work to bring a level of empathy and understanding to their clients where they can feel like they are being seen and heard, witness in their most vulnerable moments.
Their current specialties include fat and body activism, complex trauma, and eating disorder treatment. They ran a nationally-funded Eating Disorder Treatment Facility and have worked across all levels of care including RTC, PHP, IOP, and OP. Wednesdae is also a professor at Moravian University, an HPiT Co-Chair with GLMA, and a board member with Prism Counseling & Advocacy.
Thanks to their facilitation of part of The Monument Quilt, you can see some of their art and art therapy work on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art. You can also hear them guide you through a journey of gender in modern art or learn about body liberation in art with The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) Artful Practices for Well-Being.
As a poet Wednesdae’s creative writing has been showcased in several high-profile poetry venues. Their series, Grief in Numbers and The Green Veil, was featured in the WILDSound Festival of Poetry, and forthcoming poems, Boxless and Rituals for the In-Between, will appear in queer anthologies through Beyond Queer Words and Wingless Dreamer Publications, respectively, in late 2025. Their poem Witchlight in the Ruins will be featured in the Non-Binary Review anthology to be released in 2025. As an academic writer their academic publications include the peer-reviewed article “Social Action Art Therapy as an Intervention for Compassion Fatigue,” which demonstrated significant reductions in stress among counselors in domestic violence and sexual assault services, and a forthcoming chapter “Body Justice and Creating Queer Worlds in Eating Disorder Treatment Using Art Therapy” in Queer Worldmaking in Art Therapy (Routledge). They also contributed to Dazed’s online feature “How Somatic Therapy Helps People with Eating Disorders,” reflecting their commitment to accessible, evidence-informed healing practices.
