Expressive and Creative Arts Certificate

Change Your World Through the Arts

In today’s fast-paced world, expressive and creative arts offer powerful tools for growth, helping individuals tap into their full potential and enhance their work in fields ranging from counseling and education to health care and community leadership. 

Salve Regina University's expressive and creative arts training program is designed to inspire positive transformation in individuals and groups through creative expression. Using a multi-modal and inter-modal approach to the arts, the program integrates visual arts, movement, sound, theater and expressive writing. 

Program Features

15 credits

Five courses with an average time to complete of 1-2 years

Ochre Court, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island

Our low-residency format honors the demands on your time. Courses are offered in an innovative hybrid model that combines weekend immersion workshops with independent study modules to further assimilate learning and practice.

Who Will Benefit?

Our graduate certificate in expressive and creative arts is designed for practitioners who hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree and are seeking continued professional development.

Using a holistic and multi-modal approach, this vibrant program integrates the expressive and creative arts with the helping professions, emphasizing research and practice to give you a more complete toolbox to guide and inspire others.

To create synergistic dual training in expressive arts therapy and clinical mental health counseling, you may co-enroll in one of our graduate programs in counseling. Students with a bachelor's degree pursue the certificate of graduate studies, while students with a master's degree and students who are co-enrolled in one of our master's degree programs pursue the certificate of advanced graduate studies. 

Holistic Learning. Lifelong Impact.

“Many students are drawn to our expressive and creative arts training program for the enriching professional development opportunities and creative skill-building that it offers. Once students actually begin the courses, they find themselves growing deeply on a personal level as well. It’s more than academic learning – it’s about transforming lives through the arts. The students get a first-hand experience on how that happens – in a holistic and innovative way, and that gift lasts for a lifetime.” - Christopher Carbone, lecturer and program director

Christopher Carbone

Deepen Your Fulfillment

Using a holistic and multi-modal approach, our vibrant program integrates the expressive and creative arts with the helping professions, emphasizing research and practice to give graduates a more complete toolbox to guide and inspire others.

Catherine McAuley Statue

Graduate Certificates

Graduate Certificate in Expressive and Creative Arts

Our graduate certificate in expressive and creative arts is designed for practitioners who hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree and are seeking continued professional development. 

See course requirements and degree plan.

Meet Our Experts

Our expressive and creative arts program is taught by seasoned professionals who are experts in their field. Instructors work one-on-one with you, empowering you to follow your goals while serving as mentors for incorporating the training within a variety of professional pathways.