About

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Megan Kanerahtenha:wi Whyte is a Kanien’kehá:ka First Nations artist and art therapist who grounds her work in a Trauma-Informed and Two-Eyed Seeing Approach in her Mohawk community. Through a Western Lens, she completed her Master’s Degree at Concordia University in Art Therapy with a focus on addressing First Nations multigenerational trauma through the creative arts. Through a cultural lens, Megan continuously explores how art therapy can be integrated into an Indigenous way of knowing and connecting. Megan provides services to First Nations families and to community spaces through collective grassroots projects. In these projects, Megan explores cultural restoration, arts-based approaches to trauma and social justice through mural making as well as developing and facilitating a trauma-informed attachment training for her community of Kahnawá:ke. Megan has also taught courses on Ethics through the Moon Cycle, Two-Eyed Seeing Approaches to Art Therapy and Trauma Informed Approaches to the Expressive Therapies Continuum for Winnipeg’s Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy Institute as well as trauma-informed classrooms for McGill University. Most recently, she is proud to help co-develop a Two-Eyed seeing approach for the Canadian Journal of Art Therapy, which will foster a space for Indigenous ways of knowing, researching, referencing and disseminating research.