Clinical Art Therapy MA (CE)

The part-time university course Clinical Art Therapy MA (CE) aims at people interested in art therapy who have a Bachelor’s degree (or an equivalent degree totalling at least 180 ECTS) and who want to work professionally with artistic means and creative methods, for example in social, special and curative education, rehabilitation and social psychiatric areas.

The next course starts in the winter semester 2024/25 (30 September 2024)

Admission to the course Clinical Art Therapy MA (CE)

Required application documents:

• Proof of a completed Bachelor’s degree (or an equivalent degree totalling at least 180 ECTS)
• Proof of at least two years of professional experience in the relevant specialised field
• One-page letter of motivation
• Curriculum vitae

Compulsory admission procedure:

• Two admission interviews
• Admission seminar (on 20 September 2024)
• Presentation of the aesthetic and artistic interest

For enrolment in the university course, both the admissions interviews and the admissions seminar must be successfully completed.

Information and application

• Application deadline for winter semester 2024/25: 1 October 2024
• Application procedure: Submission of application documents to kunsttherapie@sfu.ac.at
• If you are interested in general information about the programme, please contact kunsttherapie@sfu.ac.at or take part in the next info event.
• The course starts in the winter semester (beginning of October).

Art therapy interventions and forms of expression can be used to treat emotional, psychological and social problems. Art therapy is based on the assumption that artistic expression is a non-verbal form of communication and helps to express, process and understand inner feelings and conflicts. The training therefore involves working out the background to disturbed or cancelled life patterns and images and making these accessible using practical artistic methods.

High practical relevance

Students get in touch with clinical-rehabilitative practice right from the start and are supervised in this process in a practical manner. At the same time, various basic principles and problems are developed in different fields of practice.

The course is continuously accompanied by artistic, material-aesthetic-orientated and (psycho-)therapeutic self-awareness, which can be seen as a further basis in the training process. With this art therapy programme, Sigmund Freud Private University contributes to the intensification of artistic, psychotherapeutic and artistic practice-oriented art therapy in Austria.

Graduates in Clinical Art Therapy are therefore qualified to work in the health and social sector – whether in outpatient, day-care or inpatient clinical facilities, in areas of health prevention, social counselling or in curative education and psychosocial institutions.

Curriculum of the six-semester programme (valid from WS 2024/25, accredited):

• Curriculum Klinische Kunsttherapie MA (CE) (PDF, in German)

6 semesters, with a Master of Arts degree (Continuing Education):
total € 18.030,- or € 3.005,- per semester or € 405,- per month (plus 2 % administration fee)

• An admission fee of € 480 is payable at the time of enrolment.

Contact Finance and Controlling:
Mail: ptw-accounting@sfu.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 798 40 98 304
Opening and telephone hours: Mon-Thu: 10:00 – 15:00 / Fri: 10:00 – 15:00 (Fridays only available by telephone)
Address: Freudplatz 1, 3rd floor, room 3002

Winter term 2024/25

VVZ VIE-KKT MA (CE) A_1. Semester (PDF, in German)

The lecture notes of the six-semester Art Therapy course can be found in the password-protected area: Kunsttherapie – intern

Information available soon…

• 6 Semester: Master of Arts (Continuing Education) / MA (CE)

Info Events

• Nächste Kunsttherapie Info-Veranstaltung

Conferences

Kunsttherapie | Hybrid-Tagung „Kunst & Imagination. Tagträume in der Kunsttherapie.“
Friday, 11 Oct. 2024, 10:00 a.m. to Saturday, 12 October 2024, 6:00 p.m.

Some works by our art therapy students: