7 Master's degrees in Art Therapy in Australia

In the Creative Arts Therapies course at Murdoch University you will learn how expression through the arts can be used to enhance the therapeutic process by using a person-centred framework. You’ll learn the newly-emerging theory in this area of counselling, combined with hands-on experience that will build your counselling skills.

Learn how artistic expression can be a powerful healing tool and gain the clinical training required to become a professionally recognised Creative Arts Therapist with the Master of Creative Arts Therapies program at Murdoch University.

This Master of Art Therapy specialised program offered at La Trobe University provides you with training in the practice of art therapy, which combines art and counselling within a clinical, therapeutic or community context.   

The Creative Arts Therapy program at University of Melbourne is a unique blended learning program offering you a specialisation in either drama or dance movement therapy. You will undertake supervised industry placements in various contexts including community, health and education.

The Master of Art Therapy offered by Western Sydney University is a clinical training program that shows you how to use visual art media within a therapeutic relationship to help people in distress. You will emerge with the theoretical knowledge and practical experience required to work as an art therapist in a wide variety of contexts.

The Music Therapy program at University of Melbourne provides a course of study for those wishing to practice as music therapists in settings such as hospitals, special schools, aged care facilities, community health programs and private practice.

Be a part of intensive musical, therapeutic, and academic studies with an emphasis on clinical musicianship and supervised clinical work. The Creative Music Therapy program at Western Sydney University puts you on the path to be a registered music therapist with the Australian Music Therapy Association (AMTA).