New course: Counseling Skills. 10-month training program. Joining starts from module two — last opportunity!!! Led by: Elitsa Velikova and Virginia Zaharieva

For professionals, students, individuals in training or actively practicing in the field of working with people and the helping professions, and educators.

The training covers the theory and practice of the principles of counseling in individual and group contexts, regardless of one's preferred therapy method. It gives current and future therapists skills to apply approaches grounded in experience, creativity, and awareness. It offers 10 modules, 120 hours, combining knowledge, personal experience, practice, and supervision.

Full course information and how to join here: Counseling Skills — training

December 2: Introduction to Expressive Art Therapy. Online training for personal and professional experience

Training for professionals and enthusiasts, for personal use and for working with clients.

A course with projects from expressive art therapy for self-awareness, therapy, and creativity.

The training aims to introduce practical methods from expressive art therapy for working with clients and for self-exploration.

 If you're wondering whether art therapy is a method you could work with, this introductory course will give you experience and knowledge for continued work, as well as valuable tools to add to your established practice.

Full program, information, and registration here: Introduction to Expressive Art Therapy

December 3: The Alchemy of Relationships — uniting the polarities. Evening event with art therapy and yoga

The masculine and feminine aspects of our nature are the basic polarities expressed in every person. Regardless of sex, these are the inner woman, the anima, and the inner man, the animus.

How do we bring about their integration?

Which are the aspects living within us, how do they interact, and how do they shape our decisions, relationships, and life energy?

An experience with art therapy and yoga that integrates creative and psychosomatic approaches for exploration. Information and registration here: The Alchemy of Relationships — art therapy and yoga

New cohort!!!!! January – November 2022. Art Therapy: Theory and Practice. Training course — 10 modules, 140 hours

Art Therapy: Theory and Practice

Certification training course — 10 modules, 140 hours

From January to November 2022, Sofia.

Led by: Elitsa Velikova, Virginia Zaharieva, Assoc. Prof. Aleksandra Ivanova, Assoc. Prof. Diana Tsirkova.

Considering becoming an art therapist? Art therapy is a method that combines art and psychology, creativity and insight, play and depth, words and images. This training is a way to grow as a professional, to support your own creative potential, and to learn from leading practitioners.

The training delivers in-depth knowledge of art therapy as a method for working with people, with a strong applied focus. It includes 10 modules, 140 hours of theory and practice.

The program focuses both on teaching specific therapeutic interventions — basic and alternative methods of therapy through the creative process — and on mastering the nuances of working with people across a wide range of topics and challenges using art therapy.

Full information and registration here: Training — Art Therapy: Theory and Practice, 2022