Carey MacCarthy, MA, ATR, LPCC

Carey MacCarthy, MA, ATR, LPCC voted top art therapist of the year 2024, and Who’s Who in America listee Founder/CEO of START UP! Art Therapy to Rewire Your Brain™. Carey is an author, presenter, speaker, and researcher, a Registered Art Therapist with the Art Therapy Credentials Board, and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, active within the art therapy profession since 2001. She is a recognized trauma expert specializing in trauma within children, adults, and Native American Historical Trauma.

Carey co-authored, with Linda Chapman START UP!™: A School-Based Arts Curriculum for Native American Youth and ALL Cultures: Interventions for Development and Learning, Facilitators Manual (2017). Chapman has since passed her work onto Carey to continue its expansion and global reach. Carey has lived in Native American Reservations and trained in the Red Road Approach to Healing for Tribal Nations and is a fluent Spanish speaker. Her mission is to help rebuild the First Nations People. Carey believes that healing should be accessible to ALL People of ALL Ages & ALL Cultures.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Carey MacCarthy maintains a private practice and is the founder of Start Up! Art Therapy and Indigenous Healing Arts Alliance Non-Profit Organization. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Carey MacCarthy is a member of the American Art Therapy Association and Art Therapy Credentials Board.