Maggie Yowell Wilson serves as Teaching Faculty for the Drama Therapy program within Antioch’s Creative Arts Therapy Department. Maggie has broad-based experience in drama therapy. She integrates Community Based Theater, 5 Phase Model, Healing the Wounds of History, Improvisation, Masks, Playback Theater, Psychodrama, Puppets, Ritual, Role Theory, Self-Revelatory Performance, The Story Within®, Theater of the Oppressed, and the expressive arts in her teaching and in her practice.
Maggie is a licensed mental health counselor, Washington approved clinical supervisor, child mental health specialist, geriatric mental health specialist, registered drama therapist/board-certified trainer, and registered expressive arts therapist. She has provided counseling to veterans and their families for several years under a grant from King County. She works with all ages, focusing on building resilience and healing grief, loss, and trauma in individual and group sessions.
A graduate of Antioch University, Maggie also has training in several evidence-based practices, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp), Dialectical Behavior Training (DBT), Play Therapy and Motivational Interviewing (MI).
Prior to private practice, Maggie served as Clinic Manager at Valley Cities’ Rainier Beach and Renton Clinics. She also served as a Mental Health Counselor and Drama Therapist at Valley Cities’ Renton and Auburn sites and Clinician at Compass Health and the Center at Saint Andrews. Prior to becoming a Counselor and Drama Therapist, Maggie also practiced as an Environmental Attorney for over 20 years.
Maggie is married to Veteran and War Trauma Provider, Bob Wilson of Valley Cities, and is proud Grandma to four beautiful grandchildren. Some of her favorite roles are artist, actor, SoulCollage Facilitator®, and Intentional Creativity Facilitator. She likes to think of herself as a Celebrant of Wonder and Tender of Sacred Story.
Teaching Faculty
Creative Arts Therapy Department, Drama Therapy program
CAT Liaison
Clinical Mental Health Counseling program
- Antioch University, Seattle, Washington, MA Counseling with an emphasis in Drama Therapy and Clinical Mental Health Counseling (June 2013).
- Master’s Project: Co-facilitated six-month community process to develop the Council of All Beings Performance Ritual, a community-based ritual to address collective grief over the state of the world, based on the work of Joanna Macy and John Seed. The final dramatic ritual was attended by over 175 people.
- Served as Graduate Assistant to the Dean of the Department of Psychology (2011-2013).
- Worked with Professor Sandi Meggert to demonstrate CACREP equivalency of Antioch’s Mental Health Counseling curriculum for accreditation.
- Worked with Professor Sandi Meggert in initial efforts to establish an honor society at Antioch University.
- Served on Dean’s Committee for Environmental Sustainability
- Musea: Center for Intentional Creativity/ Musea University
- Prisma: Intentional Creativity® Practitioner Certification Training is a collaborative year-long training for healing professionals in the science and practice of creativity and healing (2022 ongoing).
- Red Thread Intentional Creativity Guide Certification, an approach to guiding circles that was founded on the teachings of Shiloh Sophia from her book The Way of the Red Thread about curating a culture of connection designed to empower women to become leaders and circle facilitators, a 6-month program (2021).
- Global Intentional Creativity Teacher Certification, an intensive 9-month program (2020)
- Medicine Painting workshops are an embodied form of painting with an intent to heal, transform and receive insight.
- Expressive Arts Training Institute
- Advanced Professional Training Program in Expressive Arts Therapy (120 hours) (2013).
- Professional Training Program in Expressive Arts Therapy (240 hours) (2009).
- Haden Institute Spiritual Direction Program, North Carolina (2007-2009), a two-year program in spiritual direction with an emphasis on Jungian psychology and dream work.
- Mercy Center Spiritual Direction Internship Program, Burlingame, California (2007), a month-long residential intensive training and practical experience in spiritual direction.
- San Francisco Theological Seminary, Part Time M.Div. Program, Claremont, California (1993-1994).
- The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, JD (1989)
- Honor: Dean’s Award for Highest Achievement in Legal Research and Writing
- Articles Editor, The Review of Litigation
- Mental Health Clinic – represented mental health patients in commitment hearings at State Hospital.
- Southern Methodist University, BA. English with minors in Asian Studies and Linguistics (1984), including study at Kwanseii Gakkuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan (1983).
- Served on Program Council
- Served as Liaison to W.S. Merwin for Annual Poetry Festival
I love teaching, supervising, mentoring, and advising our Antioch students. As a Registered Drama Therapist and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, I think it is important for students to be exposed to a broad spectrum of drama therapy and expressive arts methods. My teaching style is collaborative, with opportunities to experience what students are learning. I particularly enjoy building relationships with students as a mentor, advisor and supervisor.
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Washington Approved Supervisor and am in the process of becoming an American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT) Approved Supervisor. I also am approved as a Board Certified Trainer (BCT) by the North American Drama Therapy Association, as well as a Child Mental Health Specialist and Geriatric Mental Health Specialist.
- Editor and Contributor, Environmental Compliance Handbook, Association of Washington Business (2005).
- Co-Author, Using Carbon Sequestration Projects to Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Emerging U.S. Carbon Trading Market: Opportunities For Agriculture and Timber Industries, with J. Ferrell, 20 American Bar Association Natural Resources & Environment Magazine, No. 1, 20 (Summer 2005)
- Author, “The Northwest Collaborative Air Priorities Project: A Working Model for the Stakeholder Process” (Summer 2003).
- Author, “Washington Air Practice” in Washington Lawyer’s Practice Manual, Chapter on Environmental Law (2000, 2001, 2002).
- Contributor, SONREEL Year in Review, Air Quality Section (2000-2002).
- Co-Author, “Preparing the Environmental Case for a Criminal Trial” with J. Dragna, Public Law Institute (1992).
- Collaborator, “The Council of All Beings”, North American Drama Therapy Association Annual Conference (November 2022). (Co-developed program, but was not present for final presentation due to illness).
- Invited Speaker, “A Celtic Labyrinth Pilgrimage” at Saint James Episcopal Parish (October 2021)
- Instructor, “Introduction to the Creative Arts Therapies for Veterans and their Families” for the Veterans Training Service Center, Seattle (October 2020)
- Guest Teacher, “Beyond the 50 Minute Hour” at Institute for Clinical Social Work, a psychodynamically-focused PhD program in Chicago (August 2020, 2021)
- Co-Facilitator, “Day Long Symposium: Healing for Women After Cancer Using Creative Arts Therapies” at Saint Mark’s Cathedral (March 2017)
- Co-Presenter, “The Art of Parachuting” at North American Drama Therapy Association Conference 2016 (October 2016).
- Guest Teacher, “Using Fairy Tales and Myths in Therapy with Children and Adolescents”, Drama Therapy Summer Institute, Antioch University Seattle (July 2015). Through experiential and collaborative exercises, including the use of masks, movement, storytelling, and puppets, participants explored the power of myths and fairy tales to heal and transform.
- Soulcollage™ Facilitator (2010-Present).
- As a trained Soulcollage Facilitator, I have facilitated dozens of workshops, retreats and classes, including workshops for the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia’s Substance Abuse Committee, Saint Mark’s Cathedral, All Saints Episcopal Church Chicago, Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church Seattle, Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Naramata Retreat Center, B.C. Canada, and Woman Spirit Center. These engagements included half day, full day, three day and week-long classes.
- Guest Lecturer, “Augusto Boal’s Rainbow of Desire”, Community Based Theater and Sociodrama, Antioch University Seattle (October 2013).
- Co-Facilitator/Teacher, Theater of Possibility Advanced Training (2013) Co-taught an advanced three-day intensive workshop at George: Center for Community that taught Theater of the Oppressed, Improv and other Drama Therapy techniques to educators and other professionals.
- Co-Facilitator/Teacher, Theater of Possibility (October 2012-June 2013). Co-facilitated groups with Founder, Lauren Marshall, for youth on the autism spectrum and with other challenges. We used Theater of the Oppressed, Improv and other Drama Therapy techniques to encourage and build relationship skills and self confidence.
- Co-Facilitator/Teacher, Living Stories Self Revelatory Performance Workshops (October 2012-December 2013).
- Co-Presenter, “Border Crossings: Theatre for Healing in an International Cultural Exchange”, North American Drama Therapy Association Annual Conference 2011 (San Francisco, California).
- Board of Directors Recognition for superior performance and outstanding representation of the guiding principles and values of Valley Cities Behavioral Health (November 2017)
- Certificate of Appreciation, Pacific Northwest International Section (PNWIS) of the Air and Waste Management Association (A&WMA) 2009 Awards Program
- Recognized by Washington Law & Politics Magazine as a Super Lawyer® for 2005, 2006 and 2007
- Recognized by Washington Law & Politics Magazine as one of the Top 40 Women Lawyers in 2007
- Recognized by Washington Law & Politics Magazine as one of the Top 50 Environmental Lawyers in 2007
- Recognized by Washington State Bar Association with Pro Bono Publico Servico Commendation, 2003-2007, 2009
- Faculty Liaison, Creative Arts Therapy Association
- Member, CSI OMG
- Member, SEIU Union Bargaining Team
- Member, P.E.O. Chapter EI, Renton. P.E.O. is a philanthropic educational organization where women celebrate the advancement of women; educate women through scholarships, grants, awards, loans, and stewardship of Cottey College; and motivate women to achieve their highest aspirations. We are a local Washington State chapter of this 225,000 member sisterhood started in 1869. Our local chapter supports the six projects of P.E.O. International: the Educational Loan Fund, International Peace Scholarship Fund, Program for Continuing Education, Scholar Awards, STAR Scholarship, and Cottey College.
- Director, Gaia’s Temple Board of Directors (2021-Present).
- Director, Health Enriched by the Arts (HEARTS) (2019-Present)
- Performing Member, Playback Theater Northwest (2013-2018)
- North American Drama Therapy Association
- International Expressive Arts Therapy Association
- International Sand Story Association
- MUSEA: Intentional Creativity Guild
- SoulCollage® International
- P.E.O. Chapter EI
- Washington State Bar Association
- Washington Women Lawyers
Introduction to Drama Therapy
Creative Arts Therapy
Ethics and Professional Issues for Drama Therapists
Group Drama Therapy
Pre-Internship Practicum
Internship Consultation and Supervision (DT)
Master’s Project