Lucia Capacchione

Lucia Capacchione (formerly Lucia Pearce) (3 November 1937 – 28 November 2022) was an Italian-American psychologist, art therapist, artist, graphic designer and author who has been bestseller of twenty-two books based on child therapy and self-help, including ''The Creative Journal'' (1979) and ''Recovery of Your Inner Child'' (1991). She discovered the use of 'writing and drawing with the non-dominant hand' method in art therapy, which she first mentioned it in her work ''The Power of Your Other Hand'' (1988). She was the director of Head Start program during the period of President Johnson's war on poverty. A long-time member of American Art Therapy Association and International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, she was also a consultant to Walt Disney Imagineering from 1983 till 1993.

In 2024 the Dr. Lucia Capacchione Institute Inc. was formed to celebrate and share the legacy of the late Dr. Capacchione, artist, designer, author, healer, clinician, pioneer and creator of the Creative Journal Expressive Arts suite of therapeutic methods:

* Creative Journal Method (1976) * Inner Child Reparenting Method (1976) * Whole-Brain Two-Handed Method (1976) * Body-Mind Healing-Arts Method (1980) * Visioning Method (1994) Provided by Wikipedia