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REGISTER FOR
NEW ONLINE
DRAMA THERAPY & EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY COURSES

All online courses are now being provided by direct access through our NEW AND IMPROVED Online Learning Platform. Click the "Online Courses" button below to access ALL the new online course offerings!

Clicking the Button Below Will Take You To a New Window With Immediate Access to ALL Online Courses and Programs.

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INNOVATIVE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS

 

The Center for Creative Arts Therapy is approved as a continuing education provider for Social Workers and Counselors by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, (#159.001383).

Experience fearlessly progressive education in intimate, experiential programs. Under the guidance of globally influential and award-winning faculty, students prepare themselves as leaders in their career, effecting purposeful and inspiring revolutions in the community.

 

Courses are interdisciplinary with both Expressive Arts Therapy and Drama Therapy students, embracing creative artistic healing.

 

 

 

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

 

The Drama Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy training programs allow you to learn about drama therapy and its use of theatre techniques to facilitate personal growth and promote health, along with expressive arts therapy multi-modal focus (art, music, dance/movement, and poetry). 

 

  • Registered Drama Therapist (RDT) credential eligibility. North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA) compliant program.

  • Registered Expressive Arts Therapy (REAT) credential eligibility. International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA) compliant program.

 

Classes are small and instruction individualized. The Drama Therapy Program is in alliance with the North American Drama Therapy Association's Alternative Training Requirements. For more information regarding registration, please visit nadta.org. More information on credentialing through the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association can be found at ieata.org.

 

The Center for Creative Arts Training Programs also offer CEUs for Registered Drama Therapists.

DISCLAIMER

 

We reserve the right to determine eligibility for online registration courses. Upon request, professionals must show evidence of identity and mental health or creative arts therapy credentials and/or certification/registration from a nationally recognized certification/registration agency. For our online REAT track students, you may be asked show evidence of enrollment in a master's level or higher or equivalent course of study before beginning courses. To learn more about continuing education, please visit our Continuing Education page.

 

SCOPE OF PRACTICE

 

Materials that are included in these online courses may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

Let us inspire and guide you towards healing the world through the arts.

 

The Center for Creative Arts Therapy offers coursework in the following professional disciplines: Drama Therapy, Expressive Arts Therapy, Therapeutic Performing Arts, Theatre for Change, Sociodrama and Psychodrama.

 

The Drama Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy Training Programs allow you to learn about drama therapy and its use of theatre techniques to facilitate personal growth and promote health, along with expressive arts therapy multi-modal focus (art, music, dance/movement, and poetry).

 

For more information on Creative Arts Therapy training programs, compassionately creative counseling services and arts-based psychotherapists in Chicago and the DuPage County area, call us at (847) 477-8244, email us, or visit us at 2600 Warrenville Road, Suite 205, Downers Grove, IL  60515.

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