The MA in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy is a three-year Master’s degree course validated by the University of East London. On successful completion of the MA, graduates will automatically become accredited with the government’s Health and Care Professions Council. This enables them to work in the NHS as a registered Art Therapist. Additionally with 450 hours of clinical practice (completed during the training and some people carry on after the training), 126 hours of supervision, and an interview with a UKCP examiner, graduates will be able to register with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). No other training in the country has this dual registration. The course is designed to ensure that graduates can work as an art therapist/arts psychotherapist/psychotherapist (generic) professionally and ethically with individuals and with groups in a variety of health, education, social services and private sector contexts.

Clinical skills in art psychotherapy therapeutic interventions: - Art therapy clinical skills within an IAP approach. - Response art, supervision and evidence-based practice: using research to inform our work. - Embodied communication and presence in the therapeutic relationship. - Self-care: strategies for managing the challenges of working as a therapist. - The therapeutic journey & the arts: working with clients over time. - The impact of traumatic early relationships. Trauma-informed art therapy. - Art therapy within a wealth of clinical settings: e.g. with patients who suffer from dissociation, psychosis, self-harm, suicidal ideation, addiction and eating disorders.

- Therapy contracts: boundaries of our practice and thinking about short, medium and long-term work with individual clients. - Setting up and managing a private practice/ therapy business: managing boundaries, issues and dilemmas. - Professional skills for the workplace: Undertaking a clinical audit. - Working in a multi-disciplinary team: medical and psychodynamic approaches to treatment. - Understanding the NHS and work on practice placement. - Current challenges facing statutory services & the experience of being a service user. - Service users’ engagement with assessment, co-design, evaluation & research.