Title: Chief Executive Officer, Author, Artist
Company: Jodi Rose Studio
Location: Sister Bay, Wisconsin, United States
Jodi Rose Gonzales, Chief Executive Officer, Author and Artist at Jodi Rose Studio, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Artists for dedication, achievements, and leadership in expressive art therapy and counseling.
Ms. Gonzales is a board-certified registered art therapist and counselor, yoga teacher, and coach working in private practice, group, and clinical settings for almost 15 years. Since 2014, she has been the CEO and founding member of Jodi Rose Studio and the Salus Institute, where she offers a variety of art and yoga classes, life coaching, and art therapy for adult and adolescent clients. Ms. Gonzales graduated cum laude from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay with a Bachelor of Arts in communications and the arts in 1997 and holds Master of Arts degrees in counseling psychology and expressive arts therapy from Prescott College. Before establishing Jodi Rose Studio, Ms. Gonzales enjoyed a successful career as an award-winning visual artist and jewelry designer working primarily in environmental and outdoor sculpture, with more than 100 community arts projects and exhibitions, funding from multiple sources including the National Endowment for the Arts, and representation in the international press. After experiencing a health crisis and a period of personal reevaluation, Ms. Gonzales turned to the art therapy profession in the early 2000s, seeking to use her creative abilities to help guide others through the same journey. Her current body of artwork, “Girl in the Woods”, shares a visual narrative of self-discovery and transformation.
Ms. Gonzales began her career in 2001 as the Outreach Director and Guenzel Gallery Director for the Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, moving on to work as an art clinician for RCS Empowers in 2008 and the art director for VisionPerry in 2009. The following year, Ms. Gonzales started offering expressive arts therapy through Art Awakenings, serving as a Youth Program Manager and Leadership Group Facilitator until 2012, when she joined the Mirasol Centers for Eating Disorder Recovery to provide primary counseling and art therapy. In 2016, Ms. Gonzales was acknowledged by the International Yoga Alliance as a registered instructor, later teaching for the Connected Warriors program at the Tucson VA Hospital and other mental health venues. Currently, she is a member of the Door County Mental Health Focus Group and Trauma-Informed Community Team. She remains extremely active in community arts initiatives and continues her practice as a visual artist and writer, with two Amazon #1 New Release books, “Drawn to Yoga” and “The Doodle’s Code,” to her credit. In recognition of her work as a therapist, an artist, and a community activist, Ms. Gonzales has been the recipient of dozens of awards, accolades, and grants, and was named one of Spirited Woman Magazine’s Top 12 Visionary Women of 2019 and an Upjourney Lifestyle Expert to Follow in 2019. Ms. Gonzales credits her success to tenacity, faith, family and the support of her mentors, emphasizing that “if you can dream it, you can achieve it.”
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