Events
CPD courses
Nature-based art therapy: principles and practice
Friday 20 – Saturday 21 March 2026
Online via Zoom
This course offers an introduction to nature-based art therapy. If you are curious about what it means to be working in natural environments, this course will introduce you to the principles and how to practise it safely.
CPD courses
Online art therapy: introduction to approaches and methods
Friday 17 – Saturday 18 April 2026
Online via Zoom
Learn about approaches and methods to using online art therapy in your practice and how to create a safe and secure virtual environment. This course will introduce you to web-based digital art media programs to incorporate into individual and group art therapy work, and how you can use these art-based tools therapeutically.
Accredited Diplomas
Art therapy supervision diploma
Start date: 10 and 17 March 2027 (both days)
Deadline for applications: 19 April 2026 (strongly encouraged)
Final deadline for applications: 6 September 2026
Scholarship application deadline: 19 April 2026
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.<br /> <br /> We will be running this course every other year. If you don't enrol this year, the next opportunity will be in Autumn 2028.
CPD courses
Art therapy with groups of children
Friday 24 April 2026
Online via Zoom
This course will support your understanding of what to consider in order to set up and facilitate art psychotherapy groups with primary age children within schools and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
Introduction and Foundation courses
One week foundation in art therapy
Monday 27 April – Friday 1 May 2026
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
Introduction to using fairy tales in art therapy
Friday 8 May 2026
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
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Saturday 9 May 2026
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
Clinical leadership
Friday 15 – Saturday 16 May 2026
Online via Zoom
Clinical leadership can be an exciting and rewarding responsibility and opportunity. This course explores the skills, approaches and resources required for therapists to take up and sustain themselves as clinical leaders.
Masterclasses
Masterclass in maintaining your creative practice as an art therapist
Friday 12 June 2026
Online via Zoom
Maintaining fitness to practice for an art therapist includes ‘engagement in their own arts-based process’. This masterclass is for all art therapists who want to explore and/or re-ignite their creativity. We will address potential blocks and barriers that hinder creative potential and look at ways to maintain a regular creative practice that fits around the challenges of daily life.
CPD courses
Complex trauma and dissociation: how to adapt art therapy practice
Friday 3 – Saturday 4 July 2026
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.
CPD courses
Developing art therapy practice with people who experience psychosis (Level 2)
Friday 10 – Saturday 11 July 2026
Online via Zoom
The course will look at ways art therapists can develop their practice to work effectively with people who experience psychosis. We will look at ways to embed service-user-informed models, research, and guidance effectively within your art therapy practice.
CPD courses
Creative approaches to autism and neurodiversity
Friday 17 – Saturday 18 July 2026
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.
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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