TRIBUTE TO
DR. JOHANNE HAMEL 
AT THE AGM

Dr. Johanne Hamel, psychologist and psychotherapist through art, is an undisputed art therapy pioneer in Quebec. Originally trained in psychology, she taught at the Cégep de Sherbrooke before developing her art therapy expertise at the Eagle Rock Trail Art Therapy Institute in California.

She then practiced art therapy in private practice and founded the Institute for Professional Training in Art Psychotherapy where, with some colleagues, she taught art therapy in French. This training was subsequently adapted to be offered as part of graduate programs in art therapy at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), the only master’s degree in art therapy offered in French in North America.

Dr. Johanne Hamel is also the author of articles and books in French and English, including L'art-thérapie somatique pour aider à guérir la douleur chronique and Rêve, art-thérapie et guérison: de l’autre côté du miroir, as well as a book on dreams in English only: Art therapy, Dreams and Nightmares , The Dream of the Jaguar.

Now a retired UQAT professor, in addition to continuing a private practice of 2 days/week, she continues to offer training in Thailand, Geneva, Switzerland, Costa Rica and online. She gives lectures to various international organizations, such as on dreams in the Netherlands last June and in the USA in 2022, on somatic art therapy in Europe and Tunisia in 2025 or 2026, etc.