Graduate Art Therapy Program Highlights

Mount Mary's master of science in art therapy is the only fully accredited graduate degree in art therapy in Wisconsin approved by the American Art Therapy Association.

The art therapy graduate program emphasizes:

• Personal artistic involvement
• Integrated experiential, academic and clinical study
• Creating a supportive and collaborative community of learners

The following major perspectives have influenced the program's theoretical orientation to art therapy and the curriculum:

• Art therapy as a therapy of creation and imagination, using the knowledge and vision of the artist, integrated with existential, archetypal and counseling theories.
• Art therapy as psychodynamic depth psychotherapy, founded on analytical, developmental, humanistic and object relations schools of psychology and counseling theories.
• Art therapy as a diverse culture-making endeavor, founded on feminist and social constructivist theories-in-action.

The graduate program is grounded in a profound belief in the healing power of the arts and the creative process. Students are offered a process- and depth- oriented program in which they learn to formulate theory and practice from within the context of their lives, thus preparing them to help others find their own paths toward growth and change.