Transpersonal Arts in Therapy Training

TRANSPERSONAL ART COUNSELLOR, LEVEL 7, CITY AND GUILDS

What will I study?

Ours is an experiential training, exploring how we bring depth, intimacy and presence to relationships with others, with our world and within ourselves.

Theory is taught and embedded through artistic practice and group processes. The teaching emphasises the development of intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual awareness.

Students learn client-centred counselling techniques, case management, ethics, working with different client groups, legal obligations and setting up a practice. Students also complete 250 hours of supervised clinical experience.

Our training emphasises self-discovery. Too early an emphasis on skills in therapeutic training can encourage the student to use techniques as a defence against the anxiety of being in the inevitable uncertainty of the counselling situation. In our training, both theoretical perspectives and the development of counselling skills are initially presented in an implicit, experiential way and only later made explicit. This building on inner experience is part of the ‘inside-out’ learning method in which students integrate skills into their own reality rather than using them as technical means to an end.

For more information, see the Tobias School of Art and Therapy Website. Next training starting Spring 2027.