Our Team
Chelsea Schor, MS, LPC, ATR-BC
Licensed Professional Counselor & Art Therapist
Chelsea Schor is from a small town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She received her bachelors in Pre-Art Therapy & Honors Humanities from Indiana Wesleyan University, and then went on to receive her Masters in Art Therapy & Counseling from Eastern Virginia Medical School. Ever since she was in high school, Chelsea has been passionate about facilitating the healing power of creative expression to all that she encounters—in art therapy, she found this. Like many other people, Chelsea did not know what art therapy was. After receiving training and education, she learned that art therapy is a mental health profession in which the creative process is used as the avenue for the client and the art therapist to build a therapeutic relationship. Through art therapy, the client can express themselves and gain new insight about the self and their place in the world.
Chelsea learned about art therapy and counseling from multiple clinical experiences, from interning at a private school, residential treatment facility and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, to working in community mental health care with an intensive outpatient and rehabilitation program, and private practice. In her therapeutic work, she uses her training in trauma-informed art therapy, trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, grief counseling, and family attachment to inform how she relates to her clients. She is currently a nationally board certified registered art therapist with the Art Therapy Credentialing Board. As she has encountered clients from many walks of life and identities, she is humbled by the power that expression and reflection-whether verbal or creative-have to bring understanding and healing to those in the therapeutic space.
In her free time, Chelsea is an artist and is particularly interested in learning more about fiber arts. She will also be exploring her new mountain surroundings with her little family.