Credentials

• DIRECTOR bridgeXngs POETRY CENTER, INC.(a not-for-profit corporation)
• L-CAT (Licensed Creative Arts Therapist)
• MM/S (NFBPT Master Mentor Supervisor)
• PTR  (Registered Poetry Therapist)
• CASAC (Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor)
• MS + 60 GRADUATE CREDITS
• Permanent Certified School Psychologist
• Licensed NYS Teacher (kdg – 6th)
• Co-Editor The Healing Fountain: Poetry Therapy for Life’s Journey -2003
• Co-Editor Poet's Process: Favorite Original Poems by NAPT Members:
  You Shall Have Your Full Bouquet - Scherlong and Weisberger - 2000
• Co-Editor Poet's Process: Favorite Poems of NAPT MEMBERS
  Your One Wild and Precious Life   - Scherlong and Weisberger - 1999
  
  
• Suffolk County, New York: Chase Mental Health Professional of the Year: 1992
• Recipient of Award presented by Parent Teachers Association of Hauppauge School District: Jensen Life membership in PTA: 1994
  
  
• Past President of NAPT (1999-2001)
• NAPT Credential Chair (1995-1999)
• Editorial Board: Journal of Poetry Therapy
• Columnist: Writer of Findings in The Museletter: from 1995 to present

NAPT Awards

• Morris Morrison Education Award: 2008
  
• Award For Outstanding Achievement: 2003
  
• Award For Distinguished Service: 1995

April 5, 2008

THE MORRIS MORRISON EDUCATION AWARD
Presented to
Lila Weisberger
for her support, inspiration,
creativity and provision of
the highest quality training

“what enters, enters like that,
       unstoppable gift.”
        --Jane Hirshfield

April 5, 2003

The National Association for Poetry Therapy
Presented to Lila Weisberger
for her devotion to
the nourishing and bringing forth of
The Healing Fountain

Don’t say, don’t say, there is no water
That fountain is there among its
Scalloped green and grey stones,
It is still there and always there.
--Denise Levertov

May 5, 1995

The National Association for Poetry Therapy
Proudly Presents
THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
To LILA L. WEISBERGER, R.P.T.

For her

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
to the
FIELD OF POETRY THERAPY