Emily Santos Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California, United States

London Area, United Kingdom

• Developed a comprehensive and equitable creative arts wellbeing provision across 3 core services (inpatient, outpatient, and community) • Led on the promotion of creative therapies for wellbeing through education and communications • Accountable for building and maintaining partnerships with collaborative organisations to enhance the service, signpost resources and maintain a network of accessible contacts in performing and visual arts • Responsible for planning, running and sustaining creative therapy groups, workshops and interventions offering support to individuals and families with complex psychological needs • Managed and provided supervision for a team of volunteers • Attended weekly multidisciplinary team meetings to ensure holistic, person centred care • Organized the curation of patient exhibitions both within the hospice environment and wider community • Acted as patient services champion for 'widening access' of the hospice in order to reach socially isolated individuals • Featured in several media publications to raise awareness of the healing potential of creative arts • Presented twice at the national Hospice UK conference featuring innovative projects of my design and implementation • Participated in several interview panels and wrote fundraising bids and grants • Responsible for setting and managing the yearly creative therapies budget • Supported children pre- and post- bereavement • Designed and facilitated a series of creative bereavement workshops for children, young people and their guardians • Created a bereavement support phone service in response to the COVID-19 pandemic which, due to its success, became a permanent service addition

London Area, United Kingdom

• Planned and facilitated weekly therapeutically themed art groups for unhoused and vulnerably housed adults • Held visual healing and relaxation creative workshops at mental health step down services • Ran a weekly Refugee Day Centre art table aimed at engaging homeless European migrants and refugees through the creative process • Worked on a 1:1 basis with high complex needs individuals in an ‘open studio’ art as therapy environment

London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the design and facilitation of a therapeutic activity program for up to 50 inpatients suffering from mild to advanced dementia, mental illness and various debilitating physical conditions • Provided therapeutically stimulating physical, sensory, cognitive, emotional and social activities in 1:1 and group settings • Tailored individually specific care plans to improve each patient’s quality of life and wellbeing • Ran weekly cognitive stimulation therapy, art therapy and ‘Dance for Dementia’ groups • Developed and implemented a Namaste care healing program aimed at honoring the ‘spirit within’ for individuals living with advanced dementia - including the design and set up of a relaxation and sensory room • Supervised a group of Namaste care volunteers and ran monthly staff trainings on the Digital Reminiscence Therapy System and the healing therapies available

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for coordinating the studio's ever-evolving, busy diary schedule • Dealt with the high level of confidentiality associated with Venture’s clientele, such as celebrities and international royalty, and developed a strong understanding of each client’s family values and needs • Scheduled photo shoots and managed the majority of incoming and outgoing calls • Supported the studio with all administrative duties and tasks • Completed the Harrods in-house training program required to work within their strict sales environment due to the studio’s exclusive partnership

Mountain View, California

• Facilitated individual and group therapy for clients on-site at two Reception-Year 8 schools • Collaborated with parents and guardians as part of the therapy process and assisted in crisis intervention • Worked collaboratively with all school staff, administrators and teachers to provide the best possible treatment to clients

Degree Module, Principles Of Palliative Care

Master’S Degree, Art Therapy Psychology / Marriage And Family Therapy And Counselling, Summa Cum Laude (First Class Honours)

• Recipient of the Mills-Peninsula Health Service Scholarship for demonstrating excellence in the field • Completion of Thesis Research.

Bachelor’S Degree, Fine And Studio Arts

Minor in Art History

Specialized Training In Eco-Art Therapy, Clay Therapy And Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy

Diploma, Metal And Jewelry Arts