THE VOICE OF ART THERAPY IN CANADA
What is Art Therapy?
Art therapy is a broad term with deep roots. When properly facilitated, it can draw on our innate creativity to help us heal, grow and transform.
Become an Art Therapist
Browse our list of art therapy training programs that meet CATA education standards. Graduates of these programs are eligible to apply for Professional or Registered membership.
Become a Member
Becoming a CATA member is a great way to support the field, strengthen your professional standing, and connect with a community of art therapists. We have membership types for everyone!
Find an Art Therapist
Looking for an art therapist? Search our directory of Professional and Registered CATA member by location or keyword to find the right art therapist for you.
“CATA stewards the profession of art therapy in Canada while cultivating an inclusive Canadian art therapy community through establishing standards, offering career development to members, advocating for and supporting the profession.”
News
We wish to extend a warm welcome to CATA-ACAT’s new Administrative Assistant, Yahn Nemirovsky!
We are exactly one month away from our association's Annual General Meeting to be hosted virtually on Sunday, November 29th, 2026. The virtual AGM is an opportunity for membership to be informed of all the work our team has been doing, and to give members and attendees an opportunity to ask questions.
Inspired by the 2026 Canadian Art Therapy Association/L’association canadienne d’arte thérapie conference theme, this special issue explores how art therapy centers healing in the body to create connection.
For the upcoming AGM, there are three positions open for voting. In accordance with the revised bylaws, membership may self-nominate (apply) or nominate others for the above positions no later than 45 days before the AGM.
Join us for an evening of creating Mixed Media Coping Cards with the Seven Grandfather Teachings. Together we'll make art to ground you in moments that ask for strength.
CATA-ACAT is currently seeking an art therapist or art therapy student to fill the role of Editor for Envisage, our online magazine.
This week on CATA’s online magazine, Envisage, we are sharing an article written by BC art therapist Marilyn Hahn, B.Ed., RCAT, DCiiAT.
We are looking for two volunteers to assist the Education Director, Katrina Grabner in reviewing applications from practitioners who trained outside of CATA-approved programs.
New Issue - Cocreating Belonging in the Healing Arts: Rivers Converging to Collectively Dream of Health and Peace.
Drop-In Group for Racialized / BIPOC Art Therapists & Art Therapy Students in Canada will be resuming from February - November 2026.
Starting on February 10, 2022, the new application will be available for submission on the next regularly scheduled deadline April 30, 2022.
The Board of Directors is pleased to share that several motions regarding Indigenizing Art Therapy have been passed by membership at our AGM on Saturday, November 20, 2021.
Letter from the CATA-ACAT registrar outlining the upcoming changes to the application process for becoming a registered member (RCAT).
Multi-Journal Collaborative Special Issues
Deadline extended to June 15, 2021
This issue celebrates the journal's new title and features French and English articles that detail practice-based research.
Artwork from participants at the CATA-ACAT 2020 Virtual Conference, responding to the invitation of: How do we cultivate, nurture, or expand creative practices at this time?