The Center: Art, Play & Traditional Therapy
our therapists
Sue Worthington-Duffy, MA, ATR-BC
Board-Certified Art PsychotherapistEmail: sueworth2@yahoo.com
Phone: 215-768-0597
Sue Worthington-Duffy is an artist, art therapist, supervisor for new professionals and students, and an adjunct clinical instructor of the graduate Medical Art Therapy course at a local university. Sue received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing with a Certificate in Art Therapy from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA in 2000. Sue graduated in 2002 from MCP Hahnemann/Drexel University with a Master’s of Art in Art Therapy.
After finishing graduate school, Sue worked in an inpatient acute care hospital for two years with adults with mental illness and addictions, and acute psychiatric disorders. Sue has spent the past seven years working with children and adolescents in a medical hospital rehabilitation setting, working with issues associated with brain injury, community re-entry, chronic pain disorders such as RSD/RND and regional pain syndrome, oncology, stroke, spinal cord injury and post-traumatic stress. Sue has experience with many other chronic medical conditions as well as sibling response to such medical stress on the family.
Sue’s interests continue to include child and adolescent gender-identity issues, grief and loss, transitions, and as well as adult transitions with medical illness and post-traumatic stress.
Sue believes that art has the power to heal. Together with the process of making art and a strengths-based practice, the individual can develop a voice to communicate, instill a sense of hope, enhance self-esteem, increase independence and build confidence.