Ping Ho
Founder and Director @Arts & Healing Initiative
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WORK HISTORY
Founder and Director @Arts & Healing Initiative
Los Angeles, CA, US
We make accessible to all the transformative power of the arts enhanced by mental health practices for self discovery, connection, and empowerment.
EDUCATION
UCLA
M.P.H., Community Health Sciences from Fielding School of Public Health
Stanford University
B.A., Psychology with Honors
UC Santa Barbara
M.A., Counseling Psychology
ABOUT PING HO
Ping is Founder and Director of the nonprofit organization, Arts & Healing Initiative, which transforms lives through the innate power of the arts, guided by mental health practices, to foster healing, connection, and resilience for all. She was founding administrator for the UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, which led to the privilege of writing for Norman Cousins and co-writing the professional autobiography of George F. Solomon, M.D, founder of the field. She has a BA in psychology with honors from Stanford—where she was appointed to establish the still-thriving Health Improvement Program for faculty and staff, an MA in counseling psychology with specialization in exercise physiology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MPH in community health sciences from UCLA School of Public Health.Ping is associate editor for the Creative Arts Therapies section of the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine and a steering committee member for the campus-wide UCLA Integrative Medicine Collaborative. She has been Co-Chair of the annual Expressive Therapies Summit: Los Angeles, which has offered 150+ workshops on creativity and the arts in healing. Ping developed the Certificate Program in Social Emotional Arts (SEA) and the SEA on a Shoestring program of supportive art, movement, music, and writing for individuals or groups in any setting. In addition, she co-developed and served as principal investigator for the evidence-based program, Beat the Odds®: Social and Emotional Skill Building Delivered in a Framework of Drumming. She is co-author, with Erica Curtis, of the 2019 National Parenting Products Award-winning book, The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art (Ohio University/Swallow Press, March 2019).
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