Paul Jenks, DOM, LPAT, ATR

Paul is a native to New Mexico having grown up in the village of Corrales just north of Albuquerque. Paul studied Painting and Drawing at the University of New Mexico receiving his BFA in 1985, then began studies in the Archetypal Art Therapy program under the tutelage of Howard McConeghy and Josie Abbenante. Paul graduated with his MA in 1988 and migrated to the pacific northwest where he began his art therapy career at an inpatient psychiatric hospital in Portland, OR.

After a couple of years Paul returned to Albuquerque where he continued his inpatient art therapy work at Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital. In 1998 Paul left Kaseman and began studies in Oriental medicine but also found himself working part-time at ArtStreet a Program of Albuquerque HealthCare for the Homeless and also at Lovelace's outpatient program for psychiatric and drug/alcohol rehabilitation clients. In 2002 Paul began to practice as a Doctor of Oriental Medicine in the Albuquerque area and continues as such today. Paul has since left Lovelace and ArtStreet and begun to teach in Southwestern College's Art Therapy Program in Santa Fe.