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Wonhee Kang, D.MIN was born in Seoul, Korea, and immigrated to the USA over thirty years ago. Dr. Kang is a multicultural creative artist and musician. Kang has also served as a non-profit executive working with youth and families at-risk for nearly three decades. 

Through the years, a consistent theme in her career has been working with youth and the arts. As director of music and worship arts, she offers multiple musical and artistic disciplines: playing pipe organ, directing choirs and bands, and creative arts therapy. In her advocacy work, she has supported communities with high levels of gang activity. As an award-winning youth and family advocate, she spearheaded many community collaborations and partnerships and helped establish a neighborhood-based anti-gang organization. 

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Dr. Kang received a church music MA degree from Shenandoah University in the USA as well as an MA degree in Play and creative Therapy from Leeds Becketts Univerisity in England, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Wesley Seminary in Arts and Theology and published her dissertation titled P.S.A.L.M.: “Unity in Diversity” A Kingdom Worship Recipe: Transforming Multicultural Ministry Vision into Reality. She has been searching for therapeutic tools to serve youth and families at risk and sought a deeper understanding of the diversity of the world and to celebrate them through creative arts, creating harmony in the community. 

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She is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist(REAT), an accredited Creative, Expressive Arts, and Play Therapist (CEAPT) as well as a certified clinical supervisor. As a certified Reality Therapy/Choice therapist and an accredited trainer of HeartMath, she offers workshops and training in those areas. Dr. Kang serves as assistant course director for Creative Arts and Play Therapy, working with post-graduate students on their journey to become CEAPT therapists. Currently, she is a faculty member of the Academy of Play Therapy and Child Psychotherapy (https://apac.org.uk/faculty/), Leeds Beckett University in UK, and Youth for Tomorrow in VA. She is a creator and founder of TheraHarmony, an integrated, creative arts-based therapeutic modality. Kang’s work has earned her several awards, which include the Boys & Girls National Honor Award for “Family Plus” programs awards for arts programs through her program development nationally. She also received the Character Development Program Award from Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. 

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As an accredited International Enneagram Association teacher, she uses Enneagram wisdom in her therapeutic and leadership practices. Through her Enneagram studies, she has been developing tools and curricula to offer ways to understand differences, strengths, and weaknesses in personalities. In her doctoral study, she researched methods to deepen the understanding of the diversity of the world. Kang is an active member of her local community: she took part and graduated from the FBI Citizen Academy and served on their Board. She also led the Asian American Chamber of Commerce for a decade as a board member and chairperson of the Board and currently serves as a co-chair of the Greater Washington International Enneagram Association (GWIEA) Board, the Board of International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, and the Board of National Association of Play Therapy in Jamaica. 

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“Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.”  - Marco Bizzarri 

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Resident Artist, Dr. Courtney Gaskins & Her Art-works

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“Mystery is endless knowability.” — Richard Rohr

My approach to expressive arts therapy is shaped by more than three decades of working across two worlds that many keep separate: the sanctuary and the therapy room. As a worship artist, church musician, and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, I've come to believe that creativity and healing are not parallel paths — they are the same path, walked with different vocabularies. Music, movement, image, and story have always been how people process what words alone cannot hold, and my training — from conducting choirs and playing organ, to earning my MA in Creative Arts & Play Therapy and my Doctor of Ministry in Arts & Theology — has taught me to trust the arts as a legitimate, rigorous, and deeply human therapeutic language.

This conviction is the foundation of the F.A.I.T.H. framework I use at TheraHarmony — School of Expressive Therapy (SET):

F — Find Peace through Expression

Creative expression — whether through art, music, or writing — offers a way to move through anxiety toward peace, not by suppressing what's difficult but by giving it a form.

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A — Acknowledge Emotions Honestly

Healing begins with honest naming. Expressive arts create a safe container for people to acknowledge pain, brokenness, or confusion without needing to explain it away first.

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I — Inspire Hope through Creativity

The act of making something — a song, an image, a movement — is itself an act of hope. It says a future is still possible, even in the middle of hardship.

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T — Transform Pain into Purpose

My own journey  taught me firsthand that pain does not have to stay pain; it can be reshaped into purpose. Working with at-risk youth, grieving families, and multicultural congregations for over 30 years has shown me the same is true for others: creative work can turn suffering into meaning and direction, rather than leaving it simply endured.

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H — Harmonize Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit

A great symphony does not stay with major chords alone — it moves through a numinous flow of combinations, colors, and shapes, from the loudest crescendo to the sound of silence. The creative process works the same way in a person: it doesn't stop at emotional insight. Music, movement, and art bring the physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of a person into that same kind of movement — tension and rest, sound and silence — which is where lasting integration and wholeness take root.

I bring this framework into every context I work in — supervising postgraduate students, developing therapeutic music and arts programming for youth in residential and behavioral health settings at Youth for Tomorrow, creating and offering School of Expressive Therapy programming, and directing worship arts in multicultural congregations. Across all of it, my clinical training in Creative Arts & Play Therapy, HeartMath, Enneagram, and Choice/Reality Therapy gives me the tools; but it's the F.A.I.T.H. framework that gives that work its center of gravity — the conviction that every person, regardless of background or circumstance, can find peace, hope, and wholeness through the creative act.

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