My full name is Kristina Ebsen, MA, LMFT, ATR. I'm a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and a Clinical Art Therapist practicing, primarily, out of Newbury Park and Camarillo, California. I specialize in person-centered work with people struggling to find contentment, meaning, and balance in their lives.  

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In clinical art therapy we use the art making and the discussion resulting from processing your experience and imagery in the art to give us a deeper understanding and valuable insight. You can learn much more art therapy here. 

Education & Training

I completed my undergraduate work in Psychology locally at California State University, Channel Islands before earning a Master of Arts in Marital & Family Therapy, with a specialization in Clinical Art Therapy from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. As part of my rigorous education and training, I gained experience working with adults, teens, children, and families in individual and group settings and with a variety of challenges including severe and chronic mental illness and offered clinical service as a graduate student at a girls orphanage in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. After taking time off to start a family, I completed my required internships in a school and clinical settings, then in my clinical practice at IGNITE! before obtaining licensure in 2017. 

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Professional Work

In my workday, when I’m not seeing clients, I’m the Clinical Director for IGNITE Collective, Inc. (IGNITE!) a local non-profit that offers meaningful programs for teens and adults with developmental disabilities. I oversee programming in Ventura County. At the heart of this work is Kindling Studios, a working art studio for a collective of adult artists housed at Studio Channel Islands in Old Town Camarillo.

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