/ Short Courses /
Start date:
July 2025
Places:
Places are awarded on a 'first paid first serve' basis due to demand
Cost / delivery:
£745 / on-campus
5 days (21 – 25 July)
Opportunity to experience an intensive five-session experiential class.
This class involves experiential learning about Art Psychotherapy. It's ideal If you want to find out more about training in this discipline and exploring your creativity in a unique environment.
Links will be made between theory and clinical practice. Insights derived from workshops aimed to heighten your understanding and sensitivity to non-verbal communication.
Course structure
The Art Psychotherapy summer school will provide you with an opportunity to engage in a deep and intensive exploration of the art therapeutic process over five consecutive days of experiential work.
You will be invited to engage in a range of art-making processes to explore your own personal symbols and unconscious imagery in a safe and creatively facilitating environment.
Notions of shared or collective experience will be explored along with how Jungian theory may inform art-making and the art-therapeutic relationship.
Details
This course may be of interest to you if you want to find out more about training in this discipline or if you want to explore your creativity in a unique environment.
It may also be useful for mental health professionals, teachers and social workers etc. interested in learning more about these unique and creative forms of therapy.
A degree of active participation will be expected from you, therefore you should be prepared for a degree of personal disclosure, sharing and exploration
- Edwards, D. (2014) Art Therapy: Creative Therapies in Practice. 2nd Edition. Sage: London
- Jung, C.G. (1963) Memories, Dreams, Reflections. London: Fontana.
- Jung, C.G. and von Franz, M.-L. et al. (eds) (1964) Man and His Symbols. London: Aldus.
- Schaverien, J. (1999) The Revealing Image: Analytical Art Psychotherapy in Theory and Practice. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. London.
Tutors
Amy Ison
On-campus Tutor
Amy Ison is an art therapist and supervisor registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).
Amy completed her training (Goldsmiths) in 2008 and has undertaken additional training in systemic practice with families and couples and experiential training in community and psychotherapy.
She has worked in adult mental health services for many years and in 2012 joined A Space, a charity which provides therapy services to children and families and consultation to school staff; she is a lead therapist and supervises MA students on clinical placement.
Amy is a graduate of the Royal Drawing School and has an ongoing interest in applied psychoanalytic theory and integrated art and art therapy practice. She is a visiting lecturer for the MA in Art Psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton.
Grigoris Tzouras
Online Tutor
Grigoris Tzouras: MA Art Psychotherapy, BA (Hons) Fine Art HCPC registered, BAAT Full Member.
Grigoris is a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered Art Psychotherapist and a full member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) with experience of working in the National Health Service (NHS) with adults and young people, offering mental health care for patients with personal problems and severe mental health illnesses.
He has also worked at Young Persons’ Services delivering a multi-component risk reduction programmes for young people who are vulnerable to risk taking behaviour including drug and alcohol use, early and unprotected sex and offending. Currently, he is employed by two NHS Trusts where he delivers group and individual art psychotherapy sessions and assessments at adult in-patient acute psychiatric units.
Grigorios teaches Art Psychotherapy at both Foundation and Masters Level at the University of Roehampton in London, continuing to develop his identity as an artist, by maintaining his studio practice, commissioning art projects and taking part in art exhibitions and competitions
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