Course Requirements
This course is designed as Continuing Professional Development for qualified counsellors, psychotherapists and play therapists. You have to have completed our foundation year, the Certificate in Integrative Art before coming onto this Diploma. You don’t have to have finished all your client hours however. We can be flexible on this. The course is designed in weekend modules in order to fit around full time work and other commitments.
Entry requirements: firstly, there is some reading set between the weekends as well as some reflective exercises. In addition, you are required to present a client to the group at some point. However, there is no written work during this expressive arts therapy course. So, you can use it as Continuing Professional Development (suitable for BACP and UKCP) or purely as a way of looking after yourself. If you would like the Diploma, we need you to do 50 hours of client work including art. Although there is no deadline for these hours, so take as long as you need. We can also suggest suitably qualified supervisors and personal therapists to support you in your work. Supervision and therapy are additional costs.
The cost is £1800 if paid before the course begins. After that, it is £2000 payable in instalments. In either case, a non-refundable deposit of £250 from the above amount is needed to secure a place.
So, we anticipate the next Certificate course running Autumn 2021 with the Diploma being in 2022. You must do the certificate course first.