Dec11
A Faculty-Led Info Session with Jenna Robinson
Expressive Arts Therapy
Embracing the power of the arts for healing, growth, and social change.
The Expressive Arts Therapy program uses an innovative Scholar-Artist-Practitioner model that unites academic knowledge, clinical practice, and community engagement with the arts as the central focus. We embrace all artistic disciplines as means of positive transformation.
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Get a glimpse of the EXA program experience
Creativity That Makes A Difference
The Expressive Arts Therapy M.A. at CIIS unites evidence-based psychological training with a wide range of creative practices to health, growth, and social change. We embrace all artistic disciplines as means of positive transformation.
Our program emphasizes hands-on learning through experiential and collaborative coursework. We place a premium on co-learning between students and faculty by creating opportunities for rich, playful, and diverse conversations and experiences.
Expressive Arts Therapy is one of five master’s programs offered through CIIS’ Counseling Psychology department. The pedagogy provides an engaging online, hybrid curriculum that weaves multimodal expressive arts, such as visual and digital arts, music, dance and movement, poetry, spoken word, and drama into all courses.
The program works on the innovative Scholar-Artist-Practitioner model that focuses on uniting academic knowledge, clinical practice, and community engagement. Throughout the program students engage with peers and faculty in a collaborative, liberatory-focused, arts-based environment. We place a premium on co-learning between students and faculty by creating opportunities for rich, playful, and diverse conversations and experiences.
Our Counseling Psychology M.A. Programs
Which one of our five unique specializations is right for you?
Expressive Arts Therapy
Integrate creative expression with clinical and community practice
Integral Counseling Psychology
Incorporate the mind, body, and spirit into therapeutic practice
Faculty in Conversation
Our faculty research a wide variety of subjects, including multicultural and social justice counseling, neuro-diverse populations, and the integration of the arts into spiritual practice.
Exploring Rumi to Make Sense of Ourselves
In this episode of the Public Programs Podcast, Expressive Arts Therapy Professor Shoshana Simons, talks with author Melody Mozeei about her life, her recent book The Rumi Prescription, and how the wisdom she found exploring Rumi can help us make sense of our modern lives.
On Family Constellations Therapy
Family Constellations begins with this premise—it did not start with me. Many of us become entangled with the unhappiness of those who came before us, unconsciously adopting destructive familial patterns of anxiety, depression, failure, and even illness and addiction.
CIIS faculty in Expressive Arts Therapy Mimi Savage joins Marine Sélénée for a conversational introduction to Family Constellations and how we can all harness this philosophy to take ownership of our lives.
The Science of Friendship
In this talk faculty Christine Brooks explores issues with friendship research, the phenomenon of loneliness, and making friends as adults. While the presentation might be from 2017, understanding the various ways nurturing our social networks increases our health and wellbeing is just as important and relevant today.
Our Upcoming Events
Feb22
Attend the Spring Open House on February 22, 2025 to get to know your admissions counselors and learn more about CIIS' bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. programs.
Our Program in Action
Arts at CIIS News
A visual, nonlinear timeline of nine critical psychological frameworks at CIIS
Campus News
A social and emotional art-based research study will be supported