Azizi Marshall is the Founder & CEO of the Center for Creative Arts Therapy, an arts-based psychotherapy practice and training center in Chicago. She also is Owner of Artful Wellness and creator of the Therapeutic Performance Initiative model, used to promote social justice through the use of role play and enactment. Azizi has led over 1,000 trainings for businesses, schools, and organizations looking to make a change in their culture. 

She has been featured in Oprah Magazine, CNN, NBC News, Bustle, Reader's Digest, The Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Glancer Magazine. She speaks regularly throughout the country on Creative Arts Therapy, and guest posts on national news articles about workplace wellness and creativity.​

Our actors are not your "typical" improv actors, as humor is not our guide... IMPACT is.

As experts in the field of psychology and counseling, the Mental Health in Action team offers you and your organization comprehensive training services. Learn healthy and proactive ways to achieve wellness and balance in their lives through experiential learning, personal and professional attention, compassionate communication, and creative research-based interventions to achieve the best outcomes for success.

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Trained in Drama Therapy, Theatre of the Oppressed, Playback Theatre, Psychodrama and the Therapeutic Performance Initiative model, our actors create heart-led, realistic, impactful recreations of shared stories, while creating a safe and brave space for exploration, understanding and growth.