Clinical Experience

• MICA (Mentally Ill Chemical Abuser) Treatment Track Coordinator for the Young Adult Service, providing individual and group psychotherapy and case management services for 13 to 18 year old inpatients with a chemical abuse history. 
• Creative Arts Therapy and Clinical Supervisor, Bronx Children’s Psychiatric Center.  Responsible for the supervision of Creative Arts Therapists, Recreation Therapists and Art Therapy Interns providing direct patient treatment with creative arts and recreation therapy group and individual treatment.  Treatment services are provided for four in-patient housing units serving approximately 80 mentally disabled youth, 4-81 to present.
• Art Therapist, Bronx Children’s Psychiatric Center.  Provided group and individual art therapy.  Multidiciplinary treatment team member, 4-79 to 4-81.
• Art Therapist, Creative Women’s Collective Community Arts Outreach Project.  Provided project administration and group art therapy services to various community service agencies, 5-78 to 1-79.

Publications

• Francie Lyshak-Stelzer, Pamela Singer, Claude Chemtob, Patricia St. John. Art Therapy for Adolescents with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Pilot Study, Journal of the American Art therapy Association, 24(4) pp. 163-169, 2007 (http://www.arttherapyjournal.org/pdf/24-4_Lyshak-Stelzer.pdf).
• Francie Lyshak-Stelzer.  In Working with Images:  The Art of Art Therapists  by Bruce L. Moon, PhD, ATR-BC, 2002.   Charles C. Thomas, Ltd.: Springfield, Illinois,  pp. 164-168, (http://www.ccthomas.com/details.cfm?P_ISBN13=9780398072438) .
• Lyshak-Stelzer, F.  The Secret:  Art & Healing from Sexual Abuse, Safer Society Press, Brandon, VT, 1999, (http://www.safersociety.org/allbks/wp074.php).
• The Creative Act as a Response to Resistance to Change,”  Psychoanalytic Review  and Expressive Therapy:  A Creative Arts Approach to Depth Oriented Treatment, Art Robbins, Ed., Human Sciences Press.
• Francie Lyshak-Stelzer, reviewer.  Art Therapy with Young Survivors of Sexual Abuse:  Lost for Words by Jenny Murphy, Editor.  Art Therapy Journal of the American Art Therapy Association 20(4), 2003, pp. 226-227.
• KBOO Radio, Portland, Oregon.  Panelist on July 30, 2002, on the topic of child abuse.

Conferences\Presentations

• The Use of Art Therapy to Treat PTSD, Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center, Orangeburg, NY 2006.
• Research: From Idea to Reality, American Art Therapy Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, 2006.
• Art therapy for young hurrican survivors: Abrief intervention for schools, Biloxi, MI, 2007.
• Art and Recovery from Trauma, Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center, Orangeburg, NY, 2002.
• Utilizing Childhood Trauma Fragments Found in Artwork to Restore Personal Narrative, American Art Therapy Association Annual Conference 2000, St. Louis, Ill.
• Utilizing Childhood Memory Fragments, Mastering the Key Connection:  6th Annual Clinical Training Conference on Trauma Services in the Public Mental Health System, New York, NY, 2000.

Education

• New York University, Post Graduate Certificate Program in the Treatment of Alcohol and Drug-Abusing Clients, NYC, 9-98 to 5-00.
• Institute for Expressive Analysis, NYC, 9-78 to 12-79.
• Pratt Institute, Art Therapy and Creativity Development, Masters of Professional Studies, NYC, 9-76 to 5-78.
• Wayne State University, Painting and Drawing, Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, Detroit, Michigan, 1-69 to 5-70.
• Center for Creative Studies, Fine Arts, Detroit, Michigan, 9-68 to 5-69.
• University of Michigan, Humanities, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 9-66 to 5-68.

Awards, Honors & Memberships

• American Art Therapy Association Research Committee Award for Excellence in Research, 2007.
• Marquis Who’s Who in America, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th Edition.
• Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 17th, 18th Edition.
• Marquis Who’s Who of American Women, 22nd, 23rd, 25th Edition.
• American Mensa, member.
• American Art Therapy Association, member.