California's only intermodal Expressive Arts Therapy MA program has trained Point Loma therapists from Liberty Station since Judith Greer Essex, PhD founded Expressive Arts Institute in 1998. The program recruits therapists holding LCSW, MFT, and PsyD credentials from San Diego mental-health offices who want to layer arts-based methods on top of existing clinical training, a pipeline that overlaps with the specialty focus at Dialogic Healing: Dr. Omholt. Coursework covers dance, drama, music, visual arts, and expressive writing as interconnected modalities, with students moving between forms under a framework Essex calls intermodal expressive arts therapy. The Roosevelt Road classroom in Suite 204 hosts monthly weekend intensives, with the summer residency component drawing students to Point Loma for concentrated in-person study alongside the weekend-online rhythm. Graduates build clinical practices around specific populations — trauma survivors, grief work, children, women's groups — a specialty-focus pattern that tracks the perinatal mental-health work at Burd Psychotherapy - Abigail Burd, LCSW, PMH-C. Expressive Arts Institute has sent intermodal arts therapists into domestic-violence shelters, university counseling centers, veterans' PTSD programs, and community-building nonprofits since its 1998 Point Loma founding — a throughline tied to Essex's career start at San Diego's first domestic violence shelter.