Magdalena V. Karlick, PhD, SEP, ATR-BC, LPCC (she/her) is an artist, board-certified Art Therapist in the United States, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, educator, arts-based researcher, with a doctorate in Expressive Arts. Magdalena is the owner of Our Imaginal World, a business that provides individual and group therapy, arts and somatic based supervision, post graduate education, and community health consultation for organizations. She has been an educator in the Art Therapy, Expressive Arts, and Counseling fields since 2012, focusing on cultural humility, somatic awareness, ethics, group dynamics, and therapeutic arts techniques. As a supervisor, she focuses on power dynamics, personal bias, culturally sensitive ethical practice, self-care, community care, and nervous system regulation. 

Magdalena is the Art Director for Tomorrow’s Women, working with Palestinian and Israeli femme-identifying youth in an international summer camp intensive. She is also a Vital Spaces studio artist in Santa Fe. Magdalena’s most recent publications include Queering Multiple Relationships in Small Communities in Queer World-Making in Art Therapy Theory and Praxis (Van Den Berg, 2026), and Zines as Creative Public Advocacy in Art Therapy in Comics, Zines, and Graphic Novels in Art Therapy: Illustrating Stories (Carlton, 2026).