Department Information

Loyola Marymount University's Graduate Department of Marital and Family Therapy offers an innovative and creative program leading to a Master of Arts in Marital and Family Therapy with a specialization in the art therapy modality. Students are trained to integrate their art backgrounds and use art processes to provide psychotherapeutic services to clients, including children, adolescents, adults and families. The training fully prepares students to become practicing marital and family therapists skilled at integrating art processes in their work as psychotherapists.

The Department 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.


The Marital and Family Program Highlights:

• Focuses on creativity and artistic processes
• Is student centered, with small classes where individualized approaches to learning are encouraged
• Provides graduates with academic requirements for California state licensure (MFT) and registration by the American Art Therapy Association (ATR)
• Integrates art therapy training within a family systems orientation informed by a psychodynamic perspective
• Embraces a multicultural focus throughout the curriculum
• Is strengthened by its distinguished faculty who are clinicians and prolific contributors to the field's scholarship
• Maintains practicum sites creating a network of diverse, well-respected training facilities
• Is approved by the American Art Therapy Association and has a long history of leadership in art therapy education
• Is the center of a network of successful alumni in positions of leadership in both clinical and educational institutions.

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