The Center for Grief Care and Education at The Institute for Palliative Medicine
4311 Third Ave.
San Diego
CAUSA
92103
Biographical Sketch: Amanda Lance-Sexton is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Board-Certified Registered Art Therapist. Amanda has been utilizing Art Therapy as a tool to explore the many faces of loss and life transition with her clients for over 9 years. Amanda is a Clinical Supervisor at The Center for Grief Care and Education. Along with supervising Masters level graduate students, Amanda also provides counseling to patients, their families and community members. Amanda has extended Art Therapy into the community in many different capacities in San Diego County, including facilitating a community-participant mural in 2005, crisis outreach and art making with victims displaced from their homes during the wildfires of 2007, and Art Therapy with homeless youth and families.
Amanda earned her MA degree from Loyola Marymount University, specializing in Art Therapy, and became a Registered Art Therapist in 2003. Prior to working with The Center for Grief Care and Education, Amanda worked in a variety of settings, including providing therapy for children/families in the foster care system, managing a private practice, and working with women and children impacted by domestic violence. Amanda is also actively involved in Southern California Art Therapy Association.