Expressive Arts Therapy

The Bachelor of Science in Expressive Arts Therapy at Endicott College is a four-year, pre-professional degree integrating three areas of study; performing and visual arts, psychology, and creative arts therapy courses. The core curriculum in Expressive Arts Therapy offers small hands on classroom instruction, utilizing an integrated arts approach philosophy by incorporating the use of visual arts, dance/ movement, music/ sound, theater, and creative writing. In addition to applied arts courses, core Expressive Arts Therapy courses in theory, practice, and foundations are supplemented with modality specific offerings in therapeutic writing, drama therapy and psychodrama, and foundations to music therapy and dance / movement therapy. Over the course of study, each student is encouraged to discover his or her own treasury of personal creative resources, and in turn, share therapeutic properties with others through three internship experiences. Students are encouraged to participate in the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA) as well as the bi-annual Endicott College Expressive Therapies Symposium. Alumni have proven to be successful in securing meaningful jobs in the arts and helping professions, and are also well prepared for graduate programs in psychology and the Expressive Therapies graduate programs, including Dance / Movement Therapy, Music Therapy, Drama Therapy, Poetry Therapy, and Art Therapy. Becoming a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT) or a board certified
therapist in any of the related Creative Arts Therapy fields is dependent on completion of graduate education and post-graduate supervised clinical experience, and a board certification exam. The Bachelor of Science in Expressive Arts Therapy at Endicott College is designed for students who have a practice in the performing and / or visual arts, possess good interpersonal skills, and who want to apply their creativity for the well-being and benefit of others.

Recent Expressive Arts Therapy Internship sites include:

The Artful Life Counseling Center and Studio LLC.
Boston Children’s Hospital
Care Dimensions Hospice
Express Yourself, Inc.
Mass General Hospital
The May Institute
The North Shore Education Consortium