Appearances & Events

Thursday, October 8, 2026

7-8 PM EST

• Time: Part of the virtual Healing Hour series (running daily from October 5 to October 8, 2026)

• Host: Dr. Wednesdae Reim Ifrach of Rainbow Recovery

• Sponsor: Nutribullet

What to Expect

• Activity: Intuitive card-making using cut-out images and magazines to explore personal stories and collective resilience.

• Focus: Designed as a reflective space for individuals healing from eating disorders to connect and build mutual support.

Join Wednesdae at the Newark Art Festival!

October 17, 2026

4-9pm EDT

Ayres Knuth Farm in Denville, NJ

Explore a mystical marketplace filled with artisans, makers, and practitioners offering handcrafted goods, curiosities, crystals, and spiritual services. Enjoy captivating folklore performances, live demonstrations, and interactive experiences that celebrate magick, community, and creativity.

Admission includes access to the artisan market, performances, and enchanting activities. Level up to a VIP ticket for some extras!

The 8th Annual Easton Book Festival, October 12-18, presents literary programs for adults and children, including seminars, open mic performances, story-times, panel discussions, and three different author expos. Program themes include mystery, horror, sci-fi, memoir, poetry, and politics.

Join Wednesdae for magical poetry, witchcraft, and art as ritual.

Friday, November 13th

6:30 pm

The Doylestown Bookshop
16 S Main Street
Doylestown, PA 18901-4698

Join Wednesdae for a talk on Queer Expression and the role expressive art therapy and somatic therapy can play in healing body trauma for Queer people.

Thursday, January 21, 2027  

8:30 PM - 10 PM EST

Via Zoom

A Conversation with Wednesdae Reim Ifrach

Wednesdae Reim Ifrach is an expressive arts therapist, artist, and scholar whose work explores embodiment, queer identity, trauma healing, and creative practice. Through art, research, and somatic therapy, their work examines how creative expression becomes a pathway for reclaiming the body and transforming trauma.

Join Wednesdae for a healing conversation exploring a queer-centered lens on healing, embodiment, and creativity. Sharing insights from their work and latest book, Queer Expressions, Wednesdae discusses tools for healing body trauma through somatic and expressive arts practices. Drawing on somatic therapy—grounding, breath, orientation, gentle movement—and expressive arts—collage, drawing, clay, movement, music, voice—within a harm-reduction frame of pacing, choice, and safety plans, Wednesdae shares tools and rituals to help you, or your clients, move from shut down or on high alert into steadier, more connected living.

Whether you, or your clients are navigating dysphoria, ED recovery, chronic stress, or nervous system dysregulation, Wednesdae shares how to build a more livable relationship with your body—and a story big enough to hold who you are becoming.

This conversation includes live audience Q&A. Books are available to add to your order at checkout.

Wednesdae Reim Ifrach is a trans/non-binary art therapist and counselor dedicated to providing gender-affirming, trauma-informed care that emphasizes healing-centered engagement, body justice, intersectional social justice, and equitable access to eating disorder treatment. They co-own and operate Rainbow Recovery, offering clinical supervision, consultations, trainings, workshops, counseling, and art therapy services to clients in Connecticut and Pennsylvania.

As a full-time professor at Moravian University, Wednesdae teaches mental health counseling, social work, and expressive art courses, inspiring future professionals.

Over the past decade, they have led trainings and workshops for organizations such as the American Art Therapy Association, National Alliance for Eating Disorders, and Yale University, among others.

Previously, Wednesdae founded the country’s first 2sLGBTQIA+ Eating Disorder Program, served on Project HEAL’s Board, and presided over the Connecticut Art Therapy Association. They currently co-chair the Health Professionals in Training Program on the GLMA Board. Their expertise addresses LGBTQ+ concerns and trauma, honoring each client’s identity. They are the author of Queer Expressions: Expressive Art and Somatic Therapy Practices for Healing Body Trauma (North Atlantic Books).

Em Marinelli is an Associate Professor in the Integral Counseling Psychology program at California Institute of Integral Studies. In their private therapy practice, Em offers warm and supportive guidance to individuals and couples, using a humanistic, trauma-informed, feminist, social justice, and strengths-based approach. They are a 2025 Tin House and 2026 Lambda Literary fellow. Their essays have appeared in Alan Squire Publishing, The Blue Rose Magazine, Film Obsessive, Variety Pack, Hot Mess Press and Anti-Heroin Chic.

Em hosts the Twin Peaks Tattoo Podcast, where they chat with fans about their Twin Peaks tattoos and what their ink means to them. They cohost the Queer Therapists Talk Wayward podcast and the Reheated Rivalry podcast. Em's debut memoir, Comfort Sequels: The Psychology of Movie Sequels from the 80s and 90s won First Place in the Entertainment and LGBTQ+ categories at the 2024 Bookfest Awards and the International Impact Book Award in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction. Em's new book Trees Lounge: Behind The Bar, is an oral history of Steve Buscemi's 1996 indie classic film. It features all-new interviews with the cast and crew-including Steve Buscemi, Chloë Sevigny, and Carol Kane--telling the story of how Trees Lounge came to life and why it continues to resonate with audiences today. Em loves teaching tap dancing and enjoys WAY too much artificial butter on their popcorn. Follow Em online @emsmarinelli. emsmarinelli.com