About

Christine M Rucker (CMR) is an artist and social worker based in Virginia Beach, VA. She graduated from Pratt Institute in painting and art history and from Virginia Commonwealth University in clinical social work. 

As an artist, she works as a bookmaker, designer, and mixed media printmaker. She teaches Visual Journaling for Stress classes at The Muse Writing Center and Norfolk Community Services Board. She has shown her mixed media printmaking pieces at galleries in New York City, Richmond, and the Hampton Roads area. Her first solo exhibition was in 2020 at the Offsite Gallery in Norfolk, VA. 

As a social worker, she practices as a Licensed Master’s in Social Work at the Norfolk Community Services Board and Deep Connections Counseling in Virginia. She is also a clinician at Feeling Good Psychotherapy in New York and is certified as a Level 1 TEAM-CBT practitioner, which is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy. She practices Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and BMDR, an integration of EMDR and Expressive Art Therapy.