Wednesdae Reim Ifrach

Wednesdae is an art therapist and counselor whose work focuses on gender-affirming care, LGBTQ+ issues, trauma-informed care, body image, and eating disorders. They are full-time faculty members in the School of Behavioral and Community Health at Moravian University and co-own and operate Rainbow Recovery, which provides clinical supervision, consultations, training, workshops, clinical counseling, and art therapy to clients across Connecticut and Pennsylvania. They serve on the GLMA board as the Health Professionals in Training Co-Chair, They are also a board member with Prism Counseling and Advocacy as the Secretary and the chair of the Fundraising Committee. Their past art therapy-based work includes participating in the Monument Quilt, which is housed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as being a guest creator for the Museum of Modern Art’s Artful Practices of Well-being Program. They have presented workshops and trainings nationally and internationally, include at the Expressive Art Therapy Summit, American Art Therapy Association, GLMA, the CT State Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, MEDA, Project HEAL, the National Alliance for Eating Disorders, the International Association for Eating Disorder Professionals, Yale University’s Summer Spiral program, Smith College, PA NASW, Fenway Health Collective, Drexel University, and the Longmore Institute of Disabilities with SFSU. Their book, Queer Expressions: Expressive Art and Somatic Therapy Practices for Healing Body Trauma, is scheduled for release by North Atlantic Books in June 2026, and they have a forthcoming poetry chapbook, Skeletons, Sequin, and Kin through Finishing Line Press and Hex & Flesh: 35 Incantations of Queer Becoming through Rebel Satori. Their latest research has been feature in The International Journal of Art Therapy, the Journal of Creative Art Therapy, and they have 5 upcoming book chapters across multiple academic art therapy based books.