Photo Art Therapy Continuing Education Series 26/27

This postgraduate continuing education program is not art therapy training and does not replace an academic degree program (BA / MA).

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 practice convey the specific approach of each art-therapeutic method. Through self-experience exercises for participants, the approaches can be explored in greater depth and complemented through comparisons with personal practical experience.

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

WHAT DRIVES ME as a lecturer

What fascinates me about this topic is the in-depth 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 solid knowledge nourished by different theories and extensive experience from my therapeutic practice. In this seminar, I would like to implement this playfully, across methods, and integratively together with everyone involved.

Artistic therapists with a successfully completed university degree, a comparable qualification, or corresponding suitability based on professional experience.

For students of Alanus University, we would like to enable participation in continuing education programs with a 50% discount. An individual quota is available for each continuing education program. University certificates are excluded from the discount.

Date 01-03.05.2026

Safety and stability as a basis in therapy
A brief introduction to photographic technique (ASA/ISO, aperture, shutter speed), receptive and active photo-therapeutic methods in theory alternate with practical photographic and artistic exercises. In small groups, you will get to know yourself and others in new ways through playful photography and artistically transform your experiences. You will learn how to guide and hold group dynamic processes. In small groups, you will practice how to create a safe framework in groups or one-to-one settings using photo art therapy and how to establish stability in your clients through artistic activity.

Lecturer: Judith Haeusler

Date 18-20.09.2026

Safety and stability as a basis in therapy
We all live in relationship – with ourselves, with inner parts, with nature, with other people. In this module, you will experience how different contact can be. Through photo art therapy, you will explore the imprint of close caregivers and the patterns of your childhood. In an experimental and playful way, you will investigate new and different possibilities for shaping relationships and anchor them creatively and in a body-oriented way. We work receptively and biographically with photos from your childhood. באמצעות photo transfer, you can encounter old, negatively connoted memories and place them in new, more healing or needs-oriented contexts through collage, distortion, or reframing.

Lecturer Judith Haeusler

Date 19-21.02.2027

Photographic or video-based work with emotions
This module focuses on the artistic handling of emotions such as anger, fear, grief, shame, or guilt in therapy. Using case examples 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 use photography or art to develop a new way of dealing with problematic, dissociated, or traumatic events.

Lecturer Judith Haeusler

Date 25-27.06.2027

Ego and self, self-image and external image
This module focuses on self-image and external image, on self-perception and the perception of 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 realization on paper or canvas. Joint discussion of the resulting works in the group

Lecturer Judith Haeusler

Date 01-03.10.2027

In this concluding module, we work online. You will learn about the possibilities for working with clients using photo art therapy online in individual settings or groups. Case examples from practice alternate with self-experience exercises via Zoom in the large plenary session and in breakout sessions.

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

If you would like to earn a university certificate, you must participate in all five modules of the series. You can then begin as early as Module III to prepare an assessed assignment in the form of a photo art therapy case documentation, a photo art therapy method development, or an essay, and present it online in Module V.
Please discuss the form of the assessed assignment with your lecturer.

Lecturer Judith Haeusler

If you would like to earn a university certificate, you must participate in all five modules of the series. You can then begin as early as Module III to prepare an assessed assignment in the form of a photo art therapy case documentation, a photo art therapy method development, or an essay, and present it online in Module V.

Please discuss the form of the assessed assignment with your lecturer.

The price for the certificate is not eligible for discount!

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 methods. She works independently in art and photo therapy in her practice in Prien and in a neuropsychiatric clinic. She regularly gives 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:
Brigitta Jaroschek M.A. (research associate)

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