Events
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.
Tell me moreCPD courses
Free CPD for members: championing our professions together
Wednesday 21 May 2025
Online
BAAT, BADth and BAMT are the professional associations for art, drama and music therapists in the UK. This free CPD will build your understanding of what we do, how you can get involved, and build your professional leadership experience.
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.
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.
CPD courses
Life story work with looked after and adopted children and young people
Friday 18 - Saturday 19 July 2025
Online via Zoom
Therapeutic life story work is an intervention commonly offered to children and young people in care and adoptees. This course offers a helpful framework for practice to augment therapists’ existing skills and knowledge in this field.
ARTiculate courses
ARTiculate for staff in education and social care
Day 1: Friday 26 September 2025
Day 2: Friday 24 October 2025
Day 3: Friday 21 November 2025
Online via Zoom
We've designed this course to better equip education and social care professionals to use art safely and effectively as a communication tool when supporting young people with a range of issues such as trust, relationship building and emotional literacy.
Masterclasses
Masterclass in maintaining your creative practice as an art therapist
Saturday 27 September 2025
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
Psychoeducation in art therapy practice
Friday 3 - Saturday 4 October 2025
Online via Zoom
On this course we will explore how to effectively integrate psychoeducation into your clinical work. We will consider formal psychoeducational approaches, informal responsive interventions and the role of imagery to enhance therapeutic practice and support learning, collaboration and change.
CPD courses
Perinatal art therapy
Friday 10 - Saturday 11 October 2025
Online via Zoom
This course introduces art therapy practice within the perinatal period (roughly from pregnancy to two years old). It's a time of enormous change, when the emotional and mental health of parents impacts infant wellbeing, and support can be crucial.
CPD courses
Child development and its significance in art therapy across the life cycle
Friday 17 - Saturday 18 October 2025
Online via Zoom
This course will explore child development from a trauma informed, biopsychological and attachment perspective. It will examine the crucial and unique role that art therapy can play in both pinpointing and reworking poorly negotiated developmental steps.
Introduction and Foundation courses
One week foundation in art therapy
Monday 27 October - Friday 31 October 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.
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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