Creative Arts Therapy (Clinical) Whitecliffe College

Overview

With the Creative Arts Therapy (Clinical) degree from Whitecliffe College, you will develop the confidence to contribute to this dynamic, emerging field, harnessing your own experience and interests to pioneer new frontiers in this rapidly expanding profession.

Key Features

Intensive weekend and four-to-five day seminars are held between four and six times annually to enable students to:

• Engage in theoretical and experiential learning with faculty, peers, and local and international practitioners

• Participate in group processes and self-reflexive practices

• Build clinical, research, creative and presentation skills

Careers

Creative Arts Therapists may work in mental health environments, education facilities, community settings and private practice.

Many of the graduates have been employed by their clinical placements after completion of the course such as special schools, prison rehabilitation, drug and alcohol services, school counselling, trauma services, disability services, community mental health settings.

Graduates of the Whitecliffe Creative Arts Therapy programme are instrumental in extending the field’s reach into new applications. Graduates of MCAT (clinical) are eligible to become professional members of the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapy Association.

Professional members with suitable background and experience are able to go into private practice and apply for registration to be a counsellor for ACC, provide counselling through the WINZ Disability Allowance Scheme and register for programmes such as the “I Am Hope” free counselling scheme for youth.