Lucia Capacchione
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Goddard College (MA)
Summit University of Louisiana (PhD)
Lucia Capacchione | |
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.jpg) Dr. Lucia Capacchione | |
| Born | November 3, 1937 |
| Died | November 28, 2022 (aged 85) Cambria, California, U.S. |
| Education | St. Mary's Academy Immaculate Heart High School |
| Alma mater | Immaculate Heart College (BA) Goddard College (MA) Summit University of Louisiana (PhD) |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1961–2022 |
| Known for | Inner-child work, journal therapy, art therapy, Creative Journal Expressive Arts |
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| Spouse | Peter Jon Pearce (1960–1971) |
| Website | www |
Lucia Capacchione (formerly Lucia Pearce) (3 November 1937 – 28 November 2022) was an Italian-American psychologist, art therapist,[1] artist,[2] graphic designer and author[3] who has been bestseller of twenty-two books based on child therapy and self-help, including The Creative Journal (1979) and Recovery of Your Inner Child (1991).[4] She discovered the use of 'writing and drawing with the non-dominant hand' method in art therapy, which she first mentioned it in her work The Power of Your Other Hand (1988).[5] She was the director of Head Start program during the period of President Johnson's War on Poverty.[6] A long-time member of American Art Therapy Association and International Expressive Arts Therapy Association[citation needed], she was also a consultant to Walt Disney Imagineering[7] from 1983 till 1993.
In 2024 the Dr. Lucia Capacchione Institute Inc. was formed [8] to celebrate and share the legacy of the late Dr. Capacchione, artist, designer, author, healer, clinician, pioneer and creator of the Creative Journal Expressive Arts [8][9] suite of therapeutic methods:
- Creative Journal Method (1976)
- Inner Child Reparenting Method (1976)
- Whole-Brain Two-Handed Method (1976)
- Body-Mind Healing-Arts Method (1980)
- Visioning Method (1994)
Dr. Capacchione was born in Los Angeles to a Roman Catholic Italian immigrant family[10] on November 3, 1937,[11] in West Hollywood, California, United States. Her father and grandparents hailed from San Ferdinando di Puglia, Apulia, Italy who moved to Los Angeles County somewhere between 1908 and 1920.[10] She spent her preschool days in New Chinatown before moving to Crenshaw where she attended Roman Catholic convents schools such as St. Paul's Grammar School and St. Mary's Academy. She was exposed to major talent of the time attending live opera, concerts. musicals and plays at the L.A. Philharmonic and Baltimore Theater. In 1950, at the age of 13, she began Saturday classes at the Otis Art Institute in the Harrison Gray Otis mansion in Los Angeles. She graduated from Immaculate Heart High School in 1955, with classmate Mary Tyler Moore. She married Peter Jon Pearce in 1960 and had two daughters with him, Aleta Pearce and Celia Pearce.
Education
According to her Facebook profile, after completing her studies from Immaculate Heart High School in 1955, she pursued bachelors in fine arts and English literature from now-defunct Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, graduating in 1959. She further pursued masters in psychology and art therapy from Goddard College in Plainfield, graduating in 1975.[12] She holds a PhD degree in psychology from Summit University of Louisiana in New Orleans, graduating in 1990.
