Marybeth Orton,
MA, ATR-BC, LPAT
Licensed Professional
Art Therapist

Marybeth has over 15 years of direct clinical experience. She has been in private practice since 1993. She has assisted teens, and adults in working through the bumps, potholes and obstacles on their life path. She gently helps reframe difficulties and brings individuals in touch with their own authentic spirit.

Marybeth’s experience includes:

• Over 15 years as Expressive Arts Therapist and play therapist for children, teens, adults and older adult s issues in an acute, residential and partial hospitalization treatment programs at a large local psychiatric hospital
• Critical incident stress management with survivors of September 11
• Clinical coordinator and supervisor of U of L’s Expressive Therapies program for graduate students
• Instructor of graduate level classes at U of L
• Guest lecturer for professional workshops, in-services and graduate classes
• Co-facilitator for adult survivors and support groups using expressive and experiential therapies
• Contract work with Pathways, Eating Disorder program
  Speaker for ACCORD, Inc.
• Bereavement counseling and funeral aftercare services
  Loss/grief counseling and recovery
• Served several terms on the Executive Board of the
  KY Art Therapy Association (KYATA)
• Serving on the Executive Board of WAGS, Pet Therapy of KY. Developed and implemented art therapy and animal assisted therapy programs

Marybeth Specializes in:

• Expressive Arts Therapies 
• Traumatic stress reactions
• Animal Assisted Therapy
• Crisis interventions
• EMDR
• Loss/grief & trauma counseling
• Sandtray
• Personal and spiritual growth
• Play Therapy
• Adolescent & adult issues
• Energy work / PEAT
• Abuse issues
• Eating Disorders
• Surviving the loss of a pet