New and returning courses for art therapists working with children and young people!
We’ve got a host of training and CPD courses for art therapists working with children and young people coming up. With many repeat courses covering important topics, back by popular demand, and four newly programmed courses, that include a diploma and our all-new masterclass.
Find out what’s coming up!
New course! Art therapy with children and young people diploma
Application deadline: 6 January 2025
Start date: 29 and 30 April 2025 (both days)
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.
New course! Art therapy with young people who self-harm and/or express suicidal ideation
Saturday 25 January 2025
The world is constantly changing and can be a confusing and seemingly terrifying environment for many young people. Sadly, the numbers of young people who self-harm and express suicidal ideation is increasing. This course introduces practitioners to many of the issues surrounding self-harm and explores how art therapy can be an effective intervention.
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy training – Level 1
Friday 31 January – Saturday 1 February 2025
This is a practical course to help you develop your dyadic art therapy work, whether you are experienced in working dyadically or have never practiced in this way.
Working with looked after and adopted children: complex trauma and art therapy
Friday 7 – Saturday 8 March 2025
This course outlines the legal and regulatory framework governing working with children who are looked after, on Special Guardianship orders, in kinship care, or adoption. It promotes best practice in working safely, ethically and effectively with this group of children, many of whom have experienced complex trauma.
Art therapy with groups of children
Friday 21 March 2025
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).
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy training – Level 2
Friday 28 – Saturday 29 March 2025
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy is a way of working which focuses directly on the child’s primary attachment relationship. This course equips art therapists who are already developing a dyadic art therapy practice with what they need to feel confident and competent to work in this way.
New course! Life story work with looked after and adopted children and young people
Friday 18 – Saturday 19 July 2025
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.
New course! Masterclass in art therapy with ‘hard to reach’ children & young people
Saturday 28 February 2026
This masterclass aims to allow a creative space to safely discuss and explore what is meant by the term ‘hard to reach’ when working with children and young people (CYP). We will explore factors that might contribute to this classification and consider examples of ways to encourage engagement in art therapy.