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Shaun McNiff, pioneer in Expressive Arts Therapy (EXA), helped establish the field in the early 1970s alongside Paolo Knill and colleagues at Lesley University Graduate School in Cambridge, MA. From the beginning, EXA emphasized an interdisciplinary, intermodal approach to the arts in healing, grounded in a strong psychological framework.

This vision marked a shift from the specialized arts therapies, which often limit practice to a single artistic discipline, toward a more expansive integration of the arts as pathways to well-being.

Unlike the specialized arts therapies focused on a single discipline, EXA embraced an interdisciplinary, intermodal approach—inviting all the arts into dialogue as pathways to healing, grounded in a strong psychological framework.

Today, Shaun McNiff continues to embody this legacy, as painter, author, educator, and one of the most influential voices in the arts and healing worldwide.