Jasmaine Ataga, PhD

• Jasmaine Ataga CV

Dr. Jasmaine Ataga is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Online Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at Seattle University. Dr. Ataga is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia, a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S), an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), and a National Certified Counselor (NCC). She has over seven years of counseling experience and ten years in crisis and trauma care. Her clinical specialty is centered on sexual trauma work and utilizing expressive arts to promote meaning-making.

Dr. Ataga is also the founder of Zen360, LLC, a small organization that creates and facilitates expressive trainings and international outreach trips for professionals, graduate students, and educators passionate about mental health. As an expressive trauma specialist, she has created sand-tray interventions, art-based techniques, and expressive-based workshops for counselors and clients. Dr. Ataga's primary goal as an educator is to help counselors-in-training learn expressive healing, gain deeper awareness, and implement a routine centered on self-care and peace.

Dr. Ataga is driven by a holistic approach to mental health, advocacy for trauma survivors, and a commitment to fostering peace, all of which led her to teach at Seattle University.