MSc Arts Therapist (Degree Apprenticeship)

Course Overview

Our course, carefully designed within the School of Arts & Creative Industries, is the only MSc Art Psychotherapy Degree Apprenticeship in England and has the potential to offer a dynamic, exciting, and personally rewarding career. The course offers a broad understanding of art psychotherapy, covering a range of clinical, theoretical, and practical components.

On completion of the course, apprentices will be able to register with the Health and Care Professions Council (subject to approval) as qualified and professional art psychotherapists, ready for practice.

An art psychotherapist’s task is to support processes of emotional integration by providing a safe, reliable, and therapeutic environment within which the patient or client can create and use art-making to express thoughts and feelings, leading to personal insight and positive change.

General Eligibility

To be accepted onto a degree apprenticeship course you must have support from your employer, and also meet the course entry requirements - you can find these below.

• Maths and English qualifications at level 2 (or equivalent)

• Apprentices will need to be proficient in art before applying to this apprenticeship e.g. holding a degree or with experiential equivalence.

Part Time Work Details

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Language Requirement

• In order to meet the HCPC requirements apprentices must be able to communicate in English to the standard equivalent to level 7 of the International English Language Testing System, with no element below 6.5, prior to entering the degree programme.