As part of our non-clinical staff, Douglas Paulson is a Community and Environmentally Engaged Artist, Educator, Creative Workshop Facilitator who focuses on cultivating the creative process as a universal tool to deepen our connection to community, ourselves; and fostering empathy, healing, and growth.

His creative practice is expansive, ranging from sprawling social interventions, making intimate drawings and books; and gathering sound and making music.

He has been in exhibitions across the world, almost always working with community and diverse practitioners from a plethora of backgrounds.

He currently teaches at The New School University in NYC; and has previously taught at ie: MoMA, The Queens Museum, and Socrates Sculpture Park, where he was the Director of Education.

He loves spending time outdoors - finding creatures, watching birds, listening to the big and small sounds, and the smell of trees and coming rain.  He’s a cyclist who has ridden across much of Europe, a rock climber who seeks out remote crags, and a snorkeler who has drifted in awe amongst bioluminescent coral reefs. These days you might catch him with an audio recorder trying to capture the sounds of a passing mosquito or a distant, red-bellied woodpecker.