The Create Institute    
Centre for Expressive Arts Therapy Education

The CREATE Institute offers a training program for Expressive Arts Therapists from mid-September through mid-May.

Note: The CREATE Institute has submitted our application in 2018 to the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario.  Many of our graduates have been accepted as Registered Psychotherapists (R.P.).  Acceptance as an R.P. enables practitioners to use the title Psychotherapist and to practice in accordance with the controlled act.   Learn more about regulations and the College of Psychotherapists.

What is Expressive Arts?

Expressive Arts Therapy (EXA) is a way of using the arts to help people with a variety of challenges; whether they be psychological, emotional, behavioural, or associated with life traumas, relationships or transitions...More

3-Yr Expressive Arts Therapy Training Program

This is an ongoing application process, in which we interview applicants on a first-come-first-served basis, from February to the summer, until we have filled the first year class with suitable candidates.

The program is designed to immerse students in an intensive, arts-based educational process that is beneficial for their professional development as expressive arts therapists, as well as for their personal and creative growth. The curriculum includes experiential, practical and theoretical training in class and as offered through a variety of practicum placement sites.......More
  • Classes begin in September     Click here to apply.
*The Create Institute is registered as a private career college under the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005

Professional and Personal Development Courses

Introduction to Expressive Arts Course 16-week Course  (October - February)... More

The Art of Trauma: Expressive arts with clients who have had traumatic experiences 
8-week course (March - May)... More
Studio:  468 Queen St. E., Suite LL01
   Toronto, ON M5A 1T7
*** Entrance to our space is located few steps east of the main entrance on Queen St.,
take 2nd set of stairs going down and enter the double doors to your right click here


Mailing address:  P.O. BOX #31046, 725 College St. Toronto, ON M6G 1C0

Tel: (416) 539-9728  admin@thecreateinstitute.org
 Clinic thecreateclinic@gmail.com
We acknowledge this land on which we gather in our CREATE community to learn & teach, Tkaronto: the place in the water where the trees are standing.
Acknowledging relationships to space and place is an ancient and traditional Indigenous practice for people travelling or visiting; that they acknowledge where they were and where they came from.
We are guests on this space; for Indigenous peoples, when the land is healthy, the people will be healthy. Respecting, honouring, sustaining and staying in relationship with this land is our shared obligation.
Information Session January 20, 2019
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"The CREATE experience is a wonderful opportunity to stretch into unexplored territory through deep experiential learning."

Susan Leopold, CREATE graduate 2011