Maria Regina (Gina) A. Alfonso

Founder and Clinical Director

MAGIS Creative Spaces

Gina is an educator and mental health clinician with a combined experience of 30 years in educational and clinical settings. She was the former lead global trainer for the Healing and Education through the Arts Program at Save the Children USA, where she trained teachers in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean.

Gina received her Masters in Education from Fordham University and her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a focus on Art Therapy from Lesley University at Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the first Filipina to earn her doctorate in Expressive Arts Therapy, Coaching, Counselling & Education, Conflict Transformation & Peacebuilding at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, Summa Cum Laude

As a clinician in private practice, she is a certified trauma specialist and board certified art therapist focused on working with individuals, couples, and families dealing with a range of issues: stress, depression, suicidality, and other personality, mood, behavioural and developmental concerns. She is also the co-founder, The Health and Arts Institute at MAGIS and founder, Cartwheel Foundation, Inc.