Events
CPD courses
Complex trauma and dissociation: how to adapt art therapy practice
Friday 3 – Saturday 4 July 2026
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.
CPD courses
Developing art therapy practice with people who experience psychosis (Level 2)
Friday 10 – Saturday 11 July 2026
Online via Zoom
The course will look at ways art therapists can develop their practice to work effectively with people who experience psychosis. We will look at ways to embed service-user-informed models, research, and guidance effectively within your art therapy practice.
CPD courses
Creative approaches to autism and neurodiversity
Friday 17 – Saturday 18 July 2026
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 19 September 2026
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 you to EMDR theory and concepts, explores how EMDR can integrate with art therapy practice, and provides essential information about pursuing full EMDR qualification.
CPD courses
Perinatal art therapy
Friday 9 – Saturday 10 October 2026
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 20 – Saturday 21 November 2026
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.
CPD courses
Supervision training
Tuesday 1 – Thursday 3 December 2026
Online via Zoom
This three-day course provides the theoretical and practical guidance to support your supervisory role, whether it's a clinical or managerial role, or both.
CPD courses
Life story work with looked after and adopted children and young people
Friday 4 – Saturday 5 Dec 2026
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.
CPD courses
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy training - Level 1
Friday 15 – Saturday 16 January 2027
Online via Zoom
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.
CPD courses
A film in a day: moving stories in clinical settings
Saturday 23 January 2027
Online via Zoom
Film is a powerful medium to use in clinical settings, allowing clients to tell a story, from lived experience or made up. Therapists can also use film as a tool for reflection or to tell your own stories. This course will offer the opportunity for you to practice making a film in a day.
CPD courses
Working with looked after and adopted children: complex trauma and art therapy
Friday 5 – Saturday 6 February 2027
Online via Zoom
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.
CPD courses
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy - Level 2
Friday 5 – Saturday 6 March 2027
Online via Zoom
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.
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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