SEEKING AN ART THERAPIST
Locate art therapists and verify professional credentials.
FIND + VERIFYHOMEPAGE
INDIANA ART THERAPY ASSOCIATION
ART THERAPY
IN INDIANA
IndiATA is Indiana’s professional association for art therapy.
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I AM…
SEEKING KNOWLEDGE
Understand art therapy, art psychotherapy, professional scope, and related distinctions.
UNDERSTAND ART THERAPYA STUDENT OR PROSPECTIVE STUDENT
Explore Indiana graduate programs and entry into the profession.
INDIANA PROGRAMSAN ART THERAPIST OR MEMBER
Access membership and chapter participation.
MEMBERSHIPA LEGISLATOR OR POLICYMAKER
Review Indiana licensure, public protection, workforce recognition, and advocacy.
INDIANA POLICYA PROFESSIONAL, EMPLOYER, EDUCATOR, OR ORGANIZATION
Understand qualifications, referral, employment, professional collaboration, and how IndiATA can help organizations navigate the profession.
INDIANA FIELDOPPORTUNITY EXCHANGE
SHARE AN OPPORTUNITY WITH INDIANA’S ART THERAPY COMMUNITY
Jobs, contracts, supervision, training, research, speaking, exhibitions, student placements, community programs, and partnership opportunities relevant to art therapists or graduate students.
Include the organization, opportunity, location or format, deadline when applicable, and a direct link or contact.
THE ASSOCIATION
WHAT INDIATA DOES
IndiATA provides educational opportunities, promotes public understanding, advances research and clinical standards, supports training, information exchange and professional coordination, and advocates for art therapy in Indiana.
ART THERAPY, CLEARLY
A MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSION THAT IS NOT LIMITED TO WORDS.
Art therapy is a mental health profession integrating art-making and creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.
ART THERAPY CAN INCLUDE SUBSTANTIAL CONVERSATION.
Creative process adds visual, sensory, symbolic, spatial, material, metaphorical, and nonverbal ways to communicate and work with experience.
RELATED CREATIVE PRACTICE
THERAPEUTIC, WELLNESS + EXPRESSIVE ART
Creative experiences can support expression, reflection, recreation, connection, or wellness. Creative benefit alone does not make an experience art therapy.
PROFESSION
ART THERAPY
A distinct mental health profession combining specialized graduate preparation, creative process, psychological knowledge, and a psychotherapeutic relationship.
PSYCHOTHERAPY
ART PSYCHOTHERAPY
Psychotherapy in which creative process is integrated with clinical assessment, treatment, and verbal and nonverbal communication within the practitioner’s professional scope.
ART THERAPY ACROSS INDIANA
EDUCATION + PRACTICE
Indiana has graduate art therapy education and art therapists working across multiple professional settings.
INDIANA GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Herron School of Art + Design at IU Indianapolis, and the University of Indianapolis.
VIEW INDIANA PROGRAMSWHERE ART THERAPISTS WORK
Art therapists work in medical, mental health, educational, rehabilitation, community, research, and independent-practice settings.
Work roles, supervision, billing, and additional state-license requirements vary by position and setting.
INDIANA RECOGNITION + ADVOCACY
INDIANA DOES NOT HAVE INDEPENDENT ART THERAPY LICENSURE YET.
THE PROFESSION IS ALREADY HERE.
Indiana has graduate art therapy education, professionally credentialed art therapists, established national standards, and practitioners working across mental health, healthcare, education, community, and independent-practice settings. The missing piece is an Indiana licensure framework that formally recognizes the profession, protects professional titles, and establishes qualifications in state law.
READY WORKFORCE
Indiana already has trained art therapists and graduate education contributing to the state’s behavioral health and community systems.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
Independent licensure can establish protected professional titles and clear qualification standards under Indiana law.
ADVOCACY
IndiATA advocates for independent state licensure and title protection so Indiana can formally recognize and use this existing professional resource.
PUBLIC RESOURCE
FIND AN ART THERAPIST
Locating an art therapist and verifying professional credentials are different steps.
OPEN FIND AN ART THERAPIST
AATA ART THERAPIST LOCATOR
Searches eligible AATA professional members who opt into the locator.
ATCB REGISTRY + VERIFICATION
Use ATCB’s national registry to check listed ATR-P, ATR, and ATCS credentials and ATR-BC board certification. Registry results identify the designation and standing recorded by ATCB.
IndiATA is a professional membership association. It does not provide clinical services, verify state licenses, or match individuals with therapists.