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Alanus University offers a full-time master programme and a part-time further education course in art therapy.
When the creative forces of the human being are repressed, they can produce the symptoms of pathology and disease. Art therapy uses visual resources such as colour, light and shade to release and re-assign these forces so that they can again become forces for healing and for growth.

The language of art therapy can be seen as the language of life represented through the medium of art. To engage with this requires sensitivity, the ability to be touched and the ability to make the unspeakable visible. It also requires the ability to bring things into motion so that new patterns, new pictures and new life can emerge. To create art means to open new visual and spiritual space, bringing people into touch with themselves and the world around them. Art therapists facilitate and accompany this process, helping patients to find appropriate forms of expression.

Career Opportunities
Art therapy as a therapeutic methodology is well established and respected in a variety of psychiatric, medical and therapeutic settings. Excellent results have also been achieved in oncology and pediatrics and in a special needs/special education context. In recent years, art therapy has also been successfully applied in addiction treatment, in trauma work and with senior citizens. There is also real emerging potential for the application of art therapy in an intercultural context, for example in working with immigrant communities, asylum seekers etc.