about

Tai Elshorst is an artist and art therapist M.A. She lives and works in Berlin.

She graduated from the Fine Art Academy Städelschule Frankfurt in 2001. For the past 25 years she has been working in various creative and psychosocial fields for numerous projects and with clients of all ages: in schools, international trade fairs as well as psychiatric institutions. In 2017 she graduated from the Fine Art Academy Berlin Weißensee with a M.A. in Art Therapy. She was awarded the Joachim Baumgarten Prize for the best grade point average. She has a German HP practitioner for psychotherapy licence and was trained in Psychodynamic Imaginative Trauma Therapy after Louise Reddemann (PITT). She also holds a certificate from the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy for Healing Trauma through Guided Drawing a Somatic Experiencing based approach. Connect on instagram

Professional Fields include:

• Psychodynamic, psychoanalytic oriented Art Therapy
• Somatic Experiencing based Art Therapy techniques
• Art therapist: children, youth and young adult psychiatry
• Lecture: Cultural humility in art therapy – diversity and transcultural topics
• Lecture: Development of artistic expression
• Art Therapy Supervision, student and career starters. online and in person
• Freelance artist and art instructor, pottery courses
• Skills: ceramics, watercolour, drawing, painting, graphic design
• Process oriented: experimental material research and multi dimensional illustration