10701NAT
Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy (Art Therapy)
This course in Transpersonal Art Therapy exemplifies our commitment to helping you grow both personally and professionally. If you are keen on a career helping people reach their full potential and navigate through life crises or difficulties arising from both mental health and spiritual issues, then you will find this course invaluable
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Join us in studying a transpersonal art therapy course that can lead to a rewarding career as an Art Therapist
The only art therapy course in NSW based on a psychological–spiritual model!
Step into yourself and open your heart, mind and spirit. Based on a shamanic model, this unique course unites ancient wisdom and modern science to provide you the tools to explore the many aspects of our being. Learn clinical skills, principles and knowledge stemming from both mainstream and transpersonal psychology. Discover the use of art to help people heal, transform themselves, connect with their human nature, explore the dimensions of the human experience and reach their full potential.
This program invites you to examine your Self while equipping you with a range of techniques to understand the psyche, to work in both clinical and organisational settings. Through a highly experiential process, you will learn the therapeutic qualities of a variety of media: drawing, clay work, sculpture, painting, pastels and collages.
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Dates
18th March 2023
26th April 2023
Delivery Modes
Online Full Time
Online Weekend
Online night study
Face-to-Face (Surry Hills Campus)
Course Structure
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Duration
14 – 18 Months
Course Fees
2023 Fees, pricing & payment options
Payment Plans & Study Loans
Payment plans available
Study loans available for domestic students only. *
* CCM is an approved training provider for the company Study Loans. Loans are available through Study Loans, subject to credit approval.
Start your journey and find out more with a FREE ONLINE DISCOVERY SESSION
Join us online. It’s the best way to find out more about our college, courses, art therapy study options, career outcomes as well as discover if this course is right for you
All attendees receive generous discounts towards their diploma studies.
Format: Online
Duration: 2 Hours
Why more people choose to study Art Therapy
with us?
Wide Diversity of Employment Opportunities
You will graduate this art therapy program with a profound understanding of the psyche and a range of techniques to explore it. This affords you a wide selection of career options in both clinic and organisational work. Graduates have gained employment in sectors such as: Art Therapy/Counselling Services, Government Agencies, Aged Care, Alcohol & Drug Centres, Rehabilitation & Outreach Services, Health Centres, Schools and Private Practice.
Unique Online learning
We use an interactive online platform so students can ask questions in real-time, interact and practise on other students or in groups, and feel like they are in a classroom even though they are studying from home. Our entire curriculum is available online. All our teachers are experienced in delivering online lectures ensuring the experience is fun, interactive and personally fulfilling. We use online classes to teach students to become proficient at online consultations – opening up a whole world of potential clients
Experienced teaching team
When you study with us you get the best of both worlds: cutting-edge theoretical knowledge along with tried and tested field experience. Our teachers have a combined 200 years of professional experience and most run their own successful clinics. Over the last 20+ years, they have infused their personal experiences into engaging teaching methods to ensure you get the most out of your mind body medicine study. Find out more about our teaching team.
Heart centered approach
We favour small class groups and a personalized teaching approach to create strong bonds with our students, and a more intimate learning experience. We strongly believe in the human-to-human connection between client and therapist, and strive to embody that in our teaching style.
Multiple study options & a supportive community
With online full-time/weekend/night/and face-to-face study options, you can find a study option that fits your lifestyle and other commitments.
When you study art therapy with our college, you also join an active community that supports you beyond your training.
Testimonials from our students
“I went in for one of CCM’s free info session and experienced my very first art therapy exercise where I plunged into the depths of my imagination. This was the world I loved as kid, and abandoned as an adult. This was a course that encouraged us to ignite our inner child. To draw, play, dance, laugh, and learn. It made me feel free to be me.”
— Kimberly Hetherington
“I originally came to the college open day and got so much out of it. Just a few hours and I walked away feeling like I had had some changes in my life. The learning here really fits in with what I want to do in the future. I feel the lecturers really live the work – they are what they teach and that really inspires me. I love the relaxed atmosphere of the college. While it is deep work, there is also a lot of freedom within the framework so you can fit the learning into your lifestyle easily.”
— Jennifer Lyons
What’s in our Art Therapy course?
Get ready to embark on a fulfilling journey of self-realisation and healing, delving into the following areas:
Module One: Foundations of Transpersonal Therapy
This foundational module introduces students to the core concepts and underpinning of transpersonal psychology through a historical and comparative approach. Transpersonal work is based on a psychological-spiritual model, which focuses on encouraging greater authenticity and creativity in life.
Module Two: Foundations of Transpersonal Practice
The second foundational module introduces students to the underlying principles and core values, to develop the skills to work with clients, in a safe and ethical manner, sensitive to cultural, and personal difference. These core values underpin our approach to art therapy throughout the course.
Module Three: Integral approaches to Mental Health
This module will examine mental health from mainstream and transpersonal perspectives. The purpose is to familiarise transpersonal therapists with the psychological, psychiatric and transpersonal paradigms in order to work within the client’s belief system.
Module Four: Healing Dialogues with Art and Images
Transpersonal Art Therapy introduces techniques to work creatively, with paint, clay and other mediums, with the aim of encouraging students to communicate through creative expression and discover their own journey to healing and well-being. From this embodied skillset they then can apply this with clients in a therapeutic setting.
Module Five: Transitions and Healing across the Life Cycle
During this module students experience their life journey and specific challenges and gifts related to each of its development phases. Here the idea of movement through the life cycle, as a series of transitions that can be understood and the therapeutic resources that can be accessed through Art Therapy are explored.
Module Six: Navigating the Psyche
Students explore the structure and dynamics of the psyche in ways related to a central concern of Transpersonal work: self -realisation. This module is designed to for students to journey into their inner personal worlds and navigate towards our centre or authentic self. Different techniques are employed to enable this: including Divination – the process of looking beyond appearances, and engaging with symbols, that are personal meaning maps and how these maps help us make sense of the world.
Module Seven: Exploring Life Transitions: Myth and Ritual
Myth and ritual have been the cornerstone of the health and well-being of individuals and communities since Paleolithic times. This module will explore the nature and use of myth in the healing process and in a cross-cultural context. Traditional, shamanic cultures will be compared with our own in terms of managing and mapping our various life changes.
Module Eight: Transpersonal Approaches to Mental Health
Exploring approaches to illness, suffering, life transitions and problems with living from a Transpersonal perspective. Looking at detailed coverage of the spiritual crisis, emergence literature, practice implications and process versus diagnosis.
Module Nine: Client Centred Engagement
This module is designed to provide students with a comprehensive foundation in inter-Transpersonal skills which are essential to being an effective healer using the Client Centered Model. This is a practical counselling module that revisits the underpinning of a Rogerian, client-centered counselling approaches.
Module Ten: Transpersonal Counselling Skills
In this module the fundamentals of communication and counseling skills are extended into Transpersonal dimensions of human interaction, using a self-realization model.
Students learn to assess where the client is at and what technique/s would be most appropriate to support the clients healing and journey.
Module 11: Transpersonal Practice Skills
This module focuses on the ways in which a Transpersonal practice can be implemented. Detailed analysis of major approaches to Transpersonal Therapy practice e.g. Wilber, Grof, Krippner and Rowan will be explored.
Module Twelve: Professional Practice – Ethic and legal Guidelines
This module covers the current climate of professional practice in Australia, ethico-legal matters, inter-professional relationships in referrals and integrative practice, case studies and practice work. It also develops a framework for developing a private practice and introduces students to further structural matters in relation to being a counselling professional.
Career Opportunities
Our Transpersonal Art Therapy courses are comprehensive, rewarding and fulfilling. Graduates have gained employment in organisations such as art therapy/counselling services, government agencies, alcohol and drug centres, rehabilitation and outreach services, health centres, schools, aged care centres and of course private practice.
Payment Plans and Study Loans
We don’t want you to miss out on making your dream career a reality due to finance, therefore we have multiple payment options available. We offer discounts on the registration fee to those who attend our free discovery sessions and short courses.
We have partnered up with ZeeFi. ZeeFi is committed to providing students with affordable payment plans to enable better access to quality education. They will lend up to $20 000 towards your study. Please visit their website or contact us to learn more.
Interested in Earning a Double Diploma?
Broaden your career options and skill set
If you have enrolled in or completed this program, you can easily broaden your skills and knowledge with a double diploma. By completing just 3 more modules, you can acquire the following additional diploma:
10701NAT Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy Counselling
Our 10701NAT Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy is a nationally recognised qualification
This program is recognised by the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) and by leading industry associations:
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