This course is open to all who wish to attend and provides a recent historical context of child protection with the aim of clarifying the duties & responsibilities of Art Therapists in safeguarding children as part of today’s C&YP work force. Whether working independently or as an employee of an organisation, this course will explore duties, responsibilities and reporting lines informed by the new updated “Working Together” 2017.

Convenors: Mary Rose Brady & Sarah Kendrick

This course is intended for art therapists who are supervisors and for those who may be thinking about taking on this role. All levels of experience are welcome. Supervisory tasks may include clinical or managerial roles or both and supervisees may be experienced art therapists or students in training. The course will provide theoretical input by looking at different models of supervision.

Convenors: Val Huet & Janet de Heger

FULLY BOOKED, NEW COURSE COMING SOON. This course is for qualified mental health practitioners only. (psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, art therapists, drama therapists, play therapists etc.) You must be qualified and currently under a professional body which enables you to undertake mental health treatment as well as hold insurance. CATT is an internationally applied and well-established child-centred technique for treating developmental trauma and post-traumatic stress disorde

Convenors: Carly Raby

This course is open to all who wish to attend. The UK Government has pledged ongoing funding to improve access to a range of therapies including Art Therapy for adopted children and young people.

Convenors: Mary Rose Brady

FULLY BOOKED - This course is open to all Qualified Professionals EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a trauma therapy which can be used in conjunction with Art Psychotherapy to help address blocks, phobias, and anxiety. It is well evidenced as effective for PTSD. This course is aimed at those who are not trained in or using EMDR in their practice, yet.

Convenors: Lee Simmons

This course is for qualified Art Therapists or other qualified creative therapists only. Dyadic Parent-Child Art Psychotherapy is a way of working which focuses directly on the child’s primary attachment relationship. The therapist does not become the child’s therapist or the caregiver’s therapist but the relationship’s therapist.

Convenors: Katie Wilson & Amanda Platt

This training day is for experienced and newly qualified art therapists who are thinking of becoming self-employed as private, sessional or independent practitioners. The aim of the course is to offer art therapists all the practical tips they need to set up their practice and to prepare them for this work.

Convenors: Anthea Hendry & Themis Kyriakidou

This course is open to qualified Art Therapists and Art Therapy trainees only. This course will support your understanding of what you need to consider in order to set up and begin facilitating Art Therapy Groups with Primary aged Children.

Convenors: Amanda Dudley

An increasing body of evidence tells us that the quality of care-giving received in the early years has a significant impact on future personality development and emotional wellbeing.

Convenors: Mary Rose Brady

Aimed at practitioners who have completed our level 1 in safeguarding.

Convenors: Mary Rose Brady & Sarah Kendrick

This course is open to all who wish to attend. What is the impact of trauma, neglect, toxic stress & disrupted attachment on children, adolescents, and on their surrounding adults? What is the impact on the body, brain, emotions, behaviours, learning, and relationships? This course focuses on translating the latest evidence-base, neuroscience findings, and attachment, loss, stress, and trauma theories into day-to-day case work.

Convenors: Dr Karen Treisman

FULLY BOOKED - NEW COURSE COMING SOON - This course is open to all who wish to attend. What is the impact of trauma, neglect, toxic stress & disrupted attachment on children, adolescents, and on their surrounding adults? What is the impact on the body, brain, emotions, behaviours, learning, and relationships? This course focuses on translating the latest evidence-base, neuroscience findings, and attachment, loss, stress, and trauma theories into day-to-day case work.

Convenors: Karen Treisman

This course is open to Qualified Professionals from any profession only. New evidence from neuroscience and attachment theory requires us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about how we might help people. But whilst the evidence offers us much potential for understanding therapeutic effectiveness, it is often complex and specialised.

Convenors: Neil Springham 

This course is open to all qualified professionals. Formulation of reasons for and goals of therapy enables co-production of an intervention plan tailored to the individual's needs. Despite formulation becoming a mainstream component of psychological therapy, many practitioners have received little training. As service users may not find verbal approaches the most accessible this course demonstrates the potential of an art therapy approach to formulation with children and adults.

Convenors: Neil Springham & Alex McDonald