Alyssa Millard (nurturingarts)

Alyssa is a registered art therapist who integrates the fields of human development, visual art (drawing, painting, sculpture, and other art forms), and the creative process with models of counseling and psychotherapy to provide individual and group art therapy services for a wide range of clients from children, adolescents, adults, and elderly adults. I use a collaborative, strengths-based approach that draws from a variety of therapeutic modalities to meet each individual where they are at with their needs and based on their individual experiences. Alyssa specializes in working with children and adolescents with ASD, ages 3-18, but is currently available to assist anyone with interest in pursuing art therapy to address your particular needs.

Alyssa L Millard, graduated from the College of Charleston (Charleston,SC) in 1998 with a BA in studio art. She began life as a studio and collections manager in addition to being a personal assistant to an aging elderly artist. She went back to school and graduated, again from the College of Charleston (Charleston, SC) in 2003 with a BS in Psychology. She graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL) in 2006 with a Master’s in Art Therapy. She is a registered art therapist with The Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc. and active member of The American Art Therapy Association.

 As an art therapist,  she has spent time working intensively in an adolescent boy’s group home, in inner city Chicago. She has also worked within a residential care facility in the suburbs of Chicago, IL.  Upon returning to the Charleston area, Alyssa worked in a preschool with an age range of 6 weeks to 5 years, as an art therapist, art educator and assistant director. She currently works for The Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired of Charleston as well as for The Lowcountry Autism Foundation (LAF)  in partnership with MUSC’s Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Department, as a behavioral art therapist and has her own private practice, Nurturing Arts.

Alyssa is also an active artist who mainly works as a printmaker, painter and jewelry enthusiast. However, she is familiar with a variety of art media, including, but not limited to: sculpture, sewing, photography,and more!