Professor Vicky Karkou is the Director for the Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing at Edge Hill University in the UK and joint programme leader for the MSc Psychotherapy and Counselling: Contemporary Creative Approaches. https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/courses/psychotherapy-and-counselling-contemporary-creative-approaches/
Vicky is a qualified dance movement psychotherapist, registered humanistic psychotherapist and qualified creative supervisor. Her research work covers the areas of the arts, therapy and arts therapies and ranges from artistic inquiry to systematic reviews and meta-analyses

This presentation is part of an online resource 'Arts and Therapy in the Time of the Pandemic' hosted by the Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing at Edge Hill University in collaboration with the International Arts Therapies Doctoral Alliance led by New York University. It includes a series of presentations, panel discussions and workshops exploring the contribution of the arts and arts psychotherapies to health and wellbeing during the 2020 pandemic. For more information visit https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/rcaw/online-event/