BAAT - The British Association of Art Therapists

BAAT - The British Association of Art Therapists We are the UK professional membership body for art therapists. Instagram: www.instagram.com/baat_org/
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Last chance to book | Complex trauma and dissociation: how to adapt art therapy practiceDevelop your understanding of th...
26/06/2026

Last chance to book | Complex trauma and dissociation: how to adapt art therapy practice

Develop your understanding of the legacy of trauma and how to adapt art psychotherapy for adults with PTSD.

🗓️ Friday 3 – Saturday 4 July 2026 (book by 10am, Mon 29 June)
CPD open to qualified and trainee art therapists only
📍 Online only

Find out more: https://baat.org/event/complex-trauma-and-dissociation-how-to-adapt-art-therapy-practice/

"When EMDR meets art therapy, these two approaches are combined to create a powerful, integrative method for trauma reco...
26/06/2026

"When EMDR meets art therapy, these two approaches are combined to create a powerful, integrative method for trauma recovery."

Art psychotherapist Bethan Baëz-Devine and mental health nurse Nicola Ball explain what happens what art therapy meets Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) in our latest issue of InSight.

🔗 Read more: https://baat.org/publications/insight/summer-2026-nhs-special/art-therapy-meets-emdr/

Early Career Researcher Prize Winner! 'Practitioners’ experiences of holding when delivering art therapy, compared with ...
25/06/2026

Early Career Researcher Prize Winner! 'Practitioners’ experiences of holding when delivering art therapy, compared with arts-for-health activities'

Congratulations to Gemma Wrigley who has won our journal's biannual prize for early career researchers, with their study that aimed to better understanding the differences between facilitating art psychotherapy and arts-for-health.

Read more: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17454832.2026.2633428

New Practitioner Prize winner! 'From ‘othered’ to ‘embodied’: neuroqueer art therapy with autistic, gender-expansive you...
23/06/2026

New Practitioner Prize winner! 'From ‘othered’ to ‘embodied’: neuroqueer art therapy with autistic, gender-expansive young people'

Congratulations to the winner of our journal's biannual prize for new practitioner papers, Lauren Seatter-Messer, whose article examines art therapy for autistic and gender-expansive young people.

🔗 Open access and free to read: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17454832.2026.2640172

"I think a lot of us were surprised to find that we were close or already at that burnout stage."It started with a chanc...
22/06/2026

"I think a lot of us were surprised to find that we were close or already at that burnout stage."

It started with a chance conversation in a hospital lift.

When oncology registrar Dr Gehan Soosaipillai met art therapist Megan Tjasink in a hospital lift, his curiosity sparked a conversation about burnout, which led to a pioneering art therapy programme for healthcare professionals, followed by research evidence showing its effectiveness.

More than ten years later and working as a medical oncology consultant, Dr Soosaipillai talks to Julia Ruppert on what he's learned about burnout, supporting healthcare workers and why art therapy could offer something different.

🔗Read the full interview in our NHS special edition of InSight: https://baat.org/publications/insight/summer-2026-nhs-special/art-therapy-in-medical-settings-an-oncologists-perspective/

🎤 Meet the speakers joining our conference this year, 'Sustaining care: art therapy for workforce, communities and indiv...
19/06/2026

🎤 Meet the speakers joining our conference this year, 'Sustaining care: art therapy for workforce, communities and individuals'

And if you're one of our members, you have until 30 June or until the first 100 tickets are sold to grab 10% off your in-person ticket price!

🌿 Professor Daisy Fancourt
Exploring the growing evidence base for arts, health and wellbeing, and what it tells us about how the arts can support individuals, communities and systems.

🏥 Megan Tjasink
Sharing findings from a multi-site randomised controlled trial on group art therapy for NHS staff experiencing burnout

🤝 Thahmina Begum
Bringing perspectives from community-based art therapy practice, with a focus on accessibility, inclusion and lived experience.

🎭 Karen Vost
Presenting The Love Booth, a participatory project exploring how shared creative spaces can build connection and belonging.

🏛️ Julia Cort
Exploring community-based art psychotherapy in museum settings

💡 Dr Val Huet
Insight into supervision in a changing world and how to adapt practice to meet new challenges

In-person and online tickets available at baat.org: https://baat.org/event/annual-conference-2026-sustaining-care-in-person-ticket/

Burnout among NHS staff continues to be a major concern in the NHS. High-quality research published in the British Medic...
18/06/2026

Burnout among NHS staff continues to be a major concern in the NHS.

High-quality research published in the British Medical Journal Public Health has highlighted that carefully implemented art therapy programmes could offer a valuable form of support for healthcare staff at risk of burnout.

What was learned from the study, and what could it mean for supporting NHS teams in practice?

🔗 Read more: https://baat.org/publications/insight/summer-2026-nhs-special/supporting-people-who-care-art-therapy-and-clinical-burnout/

This , commit to developing your art practice in working alongside neurominority and learning disability communities. T...
17/06/2026

This , commit to developing your art practice in working alongside neurominority and learning disability communities.

This is a special class, taught by Dr Sarah Haywood & Nicki Power, who are highly experienced in the subject.

🗓️ Saturday 26 September 2026, 10am - 16.00pm
🌟 Open to qualified and trainee art therapists only
📍 Online

Find out more and book your place: https://baat.org/event/masterclass-neurominority-communities/

16/06/2026

InSight Summer 2026 | special issue on art therapy in the NHS out now.

With articles on:

🔷 Promising research into art therapy and clinical burnout

🔵 Dr Dr Gehan Soosaipillai, an oncologist working in the NHS, gives his perspective on art therapy in medical settings

🔷 Working as an art therapist in an NHS community rehabilitation team

🔵 Working as an art therapist in a child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).

🔷 Art therapy meets EMDR: art psychotherapist Bethan Baëz-Devine and mental health nurse Nicola Ballan explain its potential

And more, only for our members, including:

🔵 Dr Chris Wood answers questions on working with people experiencing psychosis

🔷 Reflections from a long art therapy career in the NHS by Lynda Girvan, a retired art therapist

Find all the articles: baat.org/publications/insight/summer-2026-nhs-special/

🖼️Artwork by NHS art therapist, Jack Carberry-Todd

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