Judy Weiser is a psychologist, art therapist, consultant, trainer, university adjunct faculty, international lecturer, and author. She is recognized as one of the earliest pioneers of PhotoTherapy, therapeutic photography, photo-art therapy, video therapy, and related techniques. As the founder and director of the PhotoTherapy Centre in Vancouver, Canada, she is regarded as the world authority on the emotional significance of personal photographs.

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With Photo-Art-Therapy:
‍Photo-Art-Therapy techniques are a sub-category of PhotoTherapy techniques used only by those with specialized training in Art Therapy.
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8) Raffaela Carola Lorio, Turin, Italy, is a Licensed Art Therapist at the APIART (“Italian Professional Art Therapist Board”), a Photo-Art Therapist, and a Professional Photographer from the IED (“European Institute of Design”),
who has been working for 11 years with dual-diagnosed patients in a Therapeutic Community (“Fermata D’Autobus”) in Turin. For almost four years she has also conducted Art Therapy Groups at a Psychiatric Unit in Turin,
for patients with various metal disorders, and she has now begun a formal Research Project there, about “Art Therapy and Photo-Art-Therapy”;