Our Program
Loyola Marymount University's Marital and Family Therapy Graduate program provides a full-time two year education that combines rigorous academic course work with two clinical traineeships. A modified three-year program allows students to fulfill program requirements at a slower pace but still requires daytime class attendance.
Students are trained to integrate their visual art backgrounds with psychotherapeutic skills as they work with a variety of clients, including children, adolescents, adults and families. The training fully prepares students to become practicing marital and family therapists committed to utilizing art processes in their work as psychotherapists.
The program:
- Integrates art therapy training within a family systems orientation informed by a psychodynamic perspective
- Features small classes where individualized approaches to learning are encouraged
- Embraces a multicultural focus throughout the curriculum
- Maintains practicum sites creating a network of diverse, well-respected training facilities
- Is the center of a network of successful alumni in positions of leadership in both clinical and educational institutions
- Provides graduates with academic requirements for California state licensure (MFT) and registration by the American Art Therapy Association (ATR)
- Is approved by the American Art Therapy Association and has a long history of leadership in art therapy education
- Provides community outreach clinical programs through the Helen B. Landgarten Art Therapy Clinic
- Offers a summer immersion program in Central Mexico
- Publishes the Journal of Clinical Art Therapy
To visit the Graduate Division's website for more information, click here.