Louis Tinnin, MD, attended the University of Chicago for his undergraduate and medical school training. He was trained in psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and received post-graduate training at the National Institute of Mental Health. He is a Professor Emeritus in psychiatry at West Virginia University and a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Art Therapy. He founded the Trauma Recovery Institute in 1996 and his current interest is in brief treatment procedures for the medical and psychiatric consequences of trauma.

Linda Gantt, Ph.D., ATR-BC, is the Executive Director of the Trauma Recovery Institute. She has been a clinical instructor in the West Virginia University Department of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry for the past twelve years. She has also taught art therapy courses at Vermont College of Norwich University, The George Washington University, and Salem College. She is a past president and honorary life member of the American Art Therapy Association and a past chair of the National Coalition of Arts Therapies Associations (NCATA). Dr. Gantt is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Art Therapy and was the Interim Editor of Art Therapy: The Journal of the American Art Therapy Association in 1984. Her primary research interests are correlating formal elements in patients’ art with psychiatric diagnosis and the use of art to gauge therapeutic response.

Other members of our staff /treatment team includes professionals from the fields of psychology, social work, counseling, art therapy, and nursing.