Adler Graduate School Art Therapy Program
Adler Graduate School’s Art Therapy Program is a named graduate education programme at the Minnesota school. Its published materials describe master’s and post-master’s routes combining artmaking, counseling concepts and supervised practice. The school states that both routes stopped admitting new students in January 2025, while retaining programme information and annual reports.
Organization profile
- Organization type
- Medical education organization
- Headquarters / base
- Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States
- Geographic scope
- Minnesota graduate education and supervised clinical or community placements
Medical focus
Activities
Population served
Programme identity and location
The programme belongs to Adler Graduate School in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Art therapy is one part of its graduate educational work and has its own curriculum, supervised practice requirements and programme reporting. The school’s published catalogue also includes counseling and expressive arts offerings, so a change to art therapy admissions should not be read as closure of the whole institution.
Art therapy education combines the use of visual art materials with psychological and counseling concepts. Adler’s materials place that work within an Adlerian educational approach, emphasizing professional identity, ethical practice and service to communities.
Study and supervised practice
The published post-master’s certificate was designed for people already holding a relevant mental health master’s degree and meeting studio art prerequisites. Its curriculum comprised 37 credits, with practical artmaking integrated into art therapy coursework. Students were expected to assemble a professional portfolio showing their learning and experience.
The stated fieldwork requirements included a 100-hour practicum and a 600-hour internship, with 350 hours of direct art therapy services. Placements could take place in clinical or community settings. The school described further experience and supervision after the certificate as necessary before pursuing registration and board certification through the Art Therapy Credentials Board.
Sources: [2].
Admissions notices and professional information
Both the master’s programme page and the separate post-master’s certificate page state that new admissions ended in January 2025. These notices take precedence over older recruitment language remaining elsewhere in the programme descriptions. The school continues to publish links to Art Therapy annual reporting, including the 2025–2026 school year.
The master’s page identifies CAAHEP accreditation on ACATE’s recommendation and describes its relationship to Minnesota counseling credentials. Such programme information does not itself confer a professional license. The annual reporting links cover enrollment, retention, graduation and employment, providing a record of educational accountability after the admissions change.
Further health reading
Autism spectrum disorders appear among the programme’s published special-topic options. This guide provides background on that educational subject.
This overview of depressive illness adds mental-health background to the programme’s combination of counseling concepts and supervised art-therapy practice.
Sources
- Adler Graduate School: Master of Arts in Counseling, Art Therapy
- Adler Graduate School: Post-Master’s Certificate in Art Therapy
- Adler Graduate School: map and directions
- Adler Graduate School: graduate programmes
- Adler Graduate School: programme evaluation and student outcomes
- nimh.nih.gov: health background for Major depressive disorder
Institutional relationships