NORWAY

Dr. Mimmu Rankanen is a professor of art therapy at the Department of Art, Design and Drama of Oslo Metropolitan University. She conducted postdoctoral research at Aalto University and at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Her doctoral research (2016) focused on how client’s experience the process and impacts of art therapy. Currently, her research interests include embodied views on art therapy process and mechanisms of change in art therapy. She is the Chair of the Research Committee of European Federation of Art Therapy. 

She has extensive experience of teaching art therapy at the university level and she has presented her research at numerous international conferences in addition to multiple invited lectures. She has published multiple scientific articles and book chapters and co-authored a book about principles of art therapy.  

Mimmu Rankanen is a state authorized psychotherapist, psychotherapy educator and supervisor, who has education both in cognitive analytic psychotherapy and art therapy in Finland. By the side of her academic work in Norway she is continuing her clinical work at private practice in Finland. She is doing long term clinical art therapy with adults suffering from various mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, personality disorders and bipolar disorder.