Course General Description

If you’re ready to blend your artistic ambitions and accomplishments with your humanistic desire to help people and communities, SVA’s Master’s in Art Therapy (MPS) is the program for you. This immersive, interdisciplinary program will prepare you to utilize your passion and talent to become a licensed art therapist.

This 60-credit intense, yet flexible graduate program offers you…

integrated experiential learning within a comprehensive framework of academic theory, clinical application via an internship program and art practice

a robust program of lectures, conferences, workshops, exhibitions, and special projects, as well as opportunities for international study and studio time

the opportunity to study with a diverse group of students as far as age, cultural background, and work experience

flexibility and financial support including part-time options and scholarship opportunities

School General Description

Welcome to New York City, SVA’s hometown, and the leader of today’s creative economy, with more than 14,000 creative businesses and nonprofits. According to the EY Global Talent in Global Cities 2015 study, New York attracts more creative talent than any other city in the world because it “enjoys a unique cultural scene, embedded in a cosmopolitan and forward-thinking urban environment.” There is no better place to study, practice and work as a creative professional. Critique is a vital and challenging part of the educational experience in a college of art and design. Participating in this practice requires students to be open and vulnerable while they present their work for discussion and questioning, and to trust the transformative powers of the process in service of the work. Through the frequent repetition of this act of openness, students and faculty share and strengthen their humanity, empathy and kinship and their work evolves.