Elia Khalaf, MA, LMHC, ATR

Elia Khalaf, MA, LMHC, ATR is a Registered Art Therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Florida. He is currently a doctoral student in Counseling Education and Supervision at Oregon State University and received his MA from NYU in Art Therapy and Counseling. Currently he leads the Creative Arts Therapy program at University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Elia’s psychotherapy practice is positioned at the intersection of community wellbeing, integrative mental health, and creativity. He conducts individual and group sessions, and recently launched This Writing Well, a poet-in-residence program for patients, survivors, and caregivers in healthcare. His community-oriented projects include #BloomingNames, a therapeutic program and flower art installation honoring Black lives lost to gun violence. Elia’s #SidexSide project is a WaveMaker grantee and was awarded the Ellie’s Creator Award to connect kids across Miami through mail art.

His art practice is centered around artist books, print-making and zines as tangible art objects and experimental projects to activate public spaces and promote inclusive community participation and civic engagement through art.

"911�� College has been an amazing part of my journey. This education endeavor as an art therapist has been a series of miracles for me. I've seen such a shift in myself. It's been a beautiful experience."

Crystal Hoffman, Graduate

"I'm honored to be applying myself in a clinical environment and my experience at 911�� enabled me to not only work as an art therapist but to facilitate mindfulness groups. A dream within a dream job I had not even fathomed."

Anna Mills, Graduate

"My experience at 911�� has been truly transformational. From the lessons learned in Consciousness class to my light figure project and vision quest. The impact on me and on my soul has been absolutely profound."

Stephanie Albury. Graduate 2012

"I'm thankful for everyone at 911�� College...The deeper sense of myself has been seen, heard, honored and found. I'm so grateful to be able to share it with other people."

Cynthia Alexis, Graduate

"I chose to go back to school for my 50th birthday. Little did I know I would be re-birthed... This is sacred work for me. May the work that we do be of service and benefit to all."

Eliza Buck, Graduate

"This is the place that empowered me to do things the way that I do them, the way I'm good at doing them. I've come to surmise that to be an art therapist; to me means being an artist at therapy so the therapy is the art. The creative engagement with another, with each other, that is the art. "

Renee Borsberry, from Art Therapy Capstone Presentation

"The New Earth Institute of 911�� College offers an array of educational and transformational opportunities to the community. It has been a rich and rewarding experience, enabling the college to grow and expand our mission of transforming consciousness through education. True education engages and awakens all parts of one’s being, allowing for the integration of mind, body and spirit. It cultivates reverence for life and nurtures us in the journey of the soul.”

Katherine Ninos, Vice President

"It has been an extremely amazing journey; the past two years. There has been a lot of pain, a lot of joy and a lot of learning. I think the thing I've learned the most about this experience is trusting the process."

Denise Moore, Graduate

"I feel so much gratitude for being part of this caring, supporting, reflective, soulful community."

Linnea Knoespel, Graduate

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