Ani Buk, MFA, MA, ATR-BC, LP, LCAT, FIPA, is a licensed and Board Certified psychoanalyst and art therapist in private practice in Manhattan, where she works with children, adolescents, adults and couples, and supervises psychotherapists. A nationally recognized trauma specialist with over 30 years of clinical experience, her work and recommendations have been featured in newspapers and periodicals such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, The Chicago Tribune, and Scholastic News.
Ms. Buk has been on the faculty of the Graduate Art Therapy Program of New York University since 1993, and from 1996 - 2007 she was on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst and on the Permanent Faculty of the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society, where she completed her training in psychoanalysis, and is a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (FIPA). She obtained her MFA from the Yale School of Art, and is also a graduate of the Institute for Child, Adolescent and Family Studies.
Ms. Buk is the Clinical Advisor to Lalela, a non-profit that provides educational arts for at-risk youth in Africa and the US. She has been a consultant for Doctors of the World, Safe Horizon, The New York Center for Children, and other agencies in the New York area. She has presented nationally on a wide range of topics related to art therapy, trauma, vicarious traumatization, refugee issues, parent guidance, and the psychology of the artist.
Selected Publications
Buk, A. (2009). The mirror neuron system and embodied simulation: Clinical implications for art therapists working with trauma survivors. The Arts in Psychotherapy, Special Issue: The Creative Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Trauma, 36, 61 – 74.