He then worked at Harding Hospital in Worthington, Ohio, where he earned an AATA-approved Certificate of Clinical Internship in their Art Therapy Master's Equivalency program in March 1975.
Prior to this position, he was assistant professor and the director of the graduate art therapy program at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania from 1996 to 2001.
[1] Bruce Moon was a licensed professional counselor in Illinois, and a registered and board certified art therapist.
[citation needed] He performed art therapy services pro bono at the Alternative Behavioral Treatment Center in Mundelein, Illinois from 2005 to 2013.
[3] He ran a private practice in Worthington, Ohio from 1989 until 1996, providing individual art therapy services for children, adolescents, and adults.
In an article written by Moon titled The Tears Make Me Paint: The Role of Responsive Art-making in Adolescent Art Therapy (1999), Moon argues the importance of not only art-making in the adolescents, but response work made by the therapist is an exceptionally helpful tool as well.
[4] According to Moon, making art serves an existential purpose and can help people overcome feelings of emptiness and hopelessness.
"Bobby Wouldn't Speak" is a song Moon has recorded, and posted to YouTube, describing an adolescent boy with whom he worked who was the victim of abuse.
In the 80s he was part of another duo, Laughter and Hard Times that played in bars, restaurants and festivals in and around Columbus, Ohio.
For the last 20 years he has performed solo in a number of settings, including WVIA public radio in Scranton, PA, a street festival in Savannah, Georgia, a coffeehouse in Seattle, and a hall on the Riverwalk in San Antonio.
[1] He had an exhibit in November 2012 at the Marian Art Gallery at Mount Mary College called These Places Have Their Moments.