Events
Conferences
Annual conference 2024: digital package
Online recording
Our 2024 annual conference, held in November, brought together leading voices and examples of innovation in art therapy. If you missed it, catch up with these presentation recordings.
Tell me moreCPD courses
Introduction to using fairy tales in art therapy
Friday 25 April 2025
Online via Zoom
Fairy tales continue to fascinate and teach us, after centuries of being told. This course explores how these stories and their language of images can be an effective and powerful tool in art therapy.
Introduction and Foundation courses
One week foundation in art therapy
Monday 28 April - Friday 2 May 2025
Online via Zoom
This course is for people who are interested in art therapy as a career and want to consider training as an art therapist. It is also useful for other professionals who want to gain a better understanding of art therapy. Throughout the week you will see snapshots of what art therapy looks like in various contexts.
CPD courses
Free CPD for members: welcoming art therapists into the Community for AHP Research
Tuesday 29 April 2025 (5-7pm)
Online
This free CPD for our members will introduce you to the Community for Allied Health Professions Research (CAHPR), its regional hubs, webinars, events and resources. The aim is for more art therapists, who are or would like to be research active, to engage with CAHPR to support you in progressing along your research pathway.
Accredited Diplomas
Art therapy with children and young people diploma
Start date: 29 and 30 April 2025 (both days)
Online
The level 6 diploma, accredited by CPCAB (Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body)*, is a theory-informed and practice-based course. It aims to equip art therapists with the knowledge and skills required to provide ethical and effective art therapy for children and young people.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Saturday 10 May 2025
Online via Zoom
Are you looking for a new career that involves helping others, creativity, and personal growth? Whether you are starting to shape your professional path or want to change an established career, this introduction day will give you a chance to find out if the profession of art therapy may be for you.
CPD courses
Supervision training
Tuesday 13 - Thursday 15 May 2025
Online via Zoom
This three-day course provides the theoretical and practical guidance to support your supervisory role, whether it's a clinical or managerial role, or both.
CPD courses
A film in a day: moving stories in clinical settings
Saturday 17 May 2025
Online via Zoom
Film is a powerful medium to use in clinical settings, allowing clients to tell a story, from lived experience or made up. Therapists can also use film as a tool for reflection or to tell your own stories. This course will offer the opportunity for you to practice making a film in a day.
CPD courses
Creative approaches to autism and neurodiversity
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 June 2025
Online via Zoom
This course explores creative, neuro-affirming approaches to supporting the needs of neurodivergent service users, colleagues, trainees, and supervisees. We will cover what neurodiversity is, what it is not, and how we can tailor our practice to help neurodivergent people thrive.
Accredited Diplomas
Art therapy supervision diploma
Deadline for applications: 9 June 2025
Online
This Level 6 Accredited Diploma has been tailor-made by the British Association of Art Therapists and is accredited by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB). This intensive theory-informed and practice-based course will equip you with the knowledge and skills required to provide effective, inspiring, ethical, and art-based supervision. We will be running this course every other year. If you don't enrol this year, the next opportunity won't be until Spring 2027.
CPD courses
EMDR meets art therapy for children, young people, and adults
Saturday 28 June 2025
Online via Zoom
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be used as a treatment for people who have a diagnosis of PTSD/C-PTSD, depression, OCD, and eating disorders, to name a few. This course introduces practitioners to the potential of EMDR as a useful tool and signposts to training and accreditation.
CPD courses
Complex trauma and dissociation: how to adapt art therapy practice
Friday 4 - Saturday 5 July 2025
Online via Zoom
Develop your understanding of the legacy of trauma and how to adapt art psychotherapy for adults with PTSD. With a particular focus on stabilisation, this course aims to support effective practice with the most complex PTSD, including dissociative disorders.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Friday 11 July 2025
Online via Zoom
Are you looking for a new career that involves helping others, creativity, and personal growth? Whether you are starting to shape your professional path or want to change an established career, this introduction day will give you a chance to find out if the profession of art therapy may be for you.
Frequently asked questions
Bookings for our online Introduction, Foundation, ARTiculate, CPD and Masterclass courses close one week before the start date, at 10.00am.
Joining instructions and materials will be available in your Memberzone, under bookings, once bookings have closed. A reminder email will be sent out to delegates one week before the course.
It is the attendees’ responsibility to check they have access to the joining instructions before the course. Contacting the office on the day or evening before the start date will not always be responded to prior to the course starting.
Employer funded bookings are available for our online Introduction, Foundation, ARTiculate, CPD and Masterclass courses.
These bookings can be made on our website by paying by card at no extra cost. The booking should be made on the delegate’s account as we will need their contact details for the course. If they don’t have an account they can create one for free here. The employer will be required to provide their credit/debit card details to complete the payment. Please also tick the employer funded option at checkout.
If your employer wants to pay by invoice, you will need to complete our Invoice Details Request – Course Booking Form, and return it to us along with a PO number. Please note, we cannot accept the form without a PO number. Please note, there is an additional £20 admin fee for bookings via invoice.
If you need further assistance, please contact us at events@baat.org.
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