Photo Art Therapy Continuing Education Series 25/26

The online modules offered here present various artistic and art-therapeutic methods, interventions, and their indications as well as contraindications. The theoretical background, forms of application, and case studies from the lecturer’s professional practice convey the distinctive approach of each art-therapeutic method. Through self-experience exercises by the participants, these approaches can be explored in greater depth and complemented through comparison with personal practical experience.

METHODS
Theoretical explanations alternate with photographic and art-therapeutic interventions. Practical components take place individually or in small groups. In plenary sessions, the works and the insights associated with them are discussed.

WHAT DRIVES ME as a lecturer

What fascinates me about this topic is the well-founded exploration of one’s own identity. This helps us better understand and support OURSELVES and clients in identity crises. My interdisciplinary approach from different perspectives (medicine, photography, and art therapy) creates a seminar framework based on sound knowledge drawn from various theories and the wide range of experience from my therapeutic practice. In this seminar, I would like to implement this playfully, across methods, and integratively – together with all participants.

Artistic therapists with a successfully completed university degree, a comparable qualification, or corresponding professional suitability gained through work experience.

Date 19-21.09.2025

Photographic or videographic work with emotions
This module focuses on the artistic handling of emotions such as anger, fear, grief, shame, or guilt in therapy. Using case studies from therapeutic practice, it shows how you can work with these feelings in your own practice and how healing photographic or artistic expression and the associated movement can be. Together, we will develop a new way of dealing photographically or artistically with problematic, dissociated, or traumatic events.

Lecturer Judith Haeusler

Date 10-12.04.2026

Ego and self, self-image and external image
This module focuses on self-image and external image, and on self-perception and perception by others. In small groups, participants photograph one another using various techniques. Photographic exploration of the self, with and without motion blur, followed by photographic reproduction and painterly implementation on paper or canvas. Joint discussion of the resulting works in the group

Lecturer Judith Haeusler

Date 10-12 July 2026

In this final module, we work online. You will learn about the possibilities for working with clients in photo art therapy online, either in one-to-one settings or in groups. Case studies from practice alternate with self-experience exercises via Zoom in the full plenary and in breakout sessions.

Looking back on the 5 modules, we will address indications and contraindications of photo art therapy.

If you would like to earn a university certificate, you can begin in Module III to complete an assessment in the form of a photo art therapy case documentation, a development of a photo art therapy method, or an essay, and then present it online in Module V.
Please discuss the format of the assessment with your lecturer.

Lecturer Judith Haeusler

If you would like to earn a university certificate, you can begin in Module III to complete an assessment in the form of a photo art therapy case documentation, a development of a photo art therapy method, or an essay, and then present it online in Module V. Please discuss the format of the assessment with your lecturer.

The price for the certificate is not eligible for discounts!

Judith Haeusler is an art therapist, state-certified photo designer, trauma therapist (Somatic Experiencing according to P. Levine), and alternative practitioner for psychotherapy with numerous additional qualifications in body-oriented and systemic approaches. She works independently in art and photo therapy in her practice in Prien and in a neuropsychiatry clinic. She regularly offers seminars in photo art therapy for clients and interested participants. Her approach is applied-artistic, expanded by anthroposophical, systemic, body-oriented, and depth-psychological aspects.

www.fotokunsttherapie.de

Head of edu.Art – Institute for Continuing Education in Artistic Therapies:
Juli Hornen, graduate pedagogue and art therapist BA, LfbA (Lecturer for Special Tasks)