Nature-Based Expressive Arts Certificate Program

Here is What You Need:

To get started and in order to access the certificate site, please use the check out button to pay the $75 fee to process your certificate. You will then be able to enter the certificate site and upload your certificates of completion for the following courses [three Required Courses and two Courses of Your Choice as listed below].

Required Trainings:

1) Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy Live Webinar Series 

2) Advanced Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy Webinar Series: Healing Trauma and Loss with Nature 

3) Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy Foundation Course [online study] OR Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy Level One Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy Live Webinar Series


Also Required--Chose Any Two of the Following Trainings:

1) Equine-Assisted Expressive Arts Therapy In-Person Training in Fort Collins, Colorado area each year

2) Bilateral Stimulation and Sensorimotor Expressive Arts Therapy Live Webinar Series 

3) Advanced Expressive Arts Therapy [Circle of Capacity Level Two] Live Webinar Series `

4) Sensorimotor Expressive Arts Therapy Live Webinar Series

5) Polyvagal-Focused Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) and Sensorimotor Expressive Arts Therapy Live Webinar Series


There are no additional continuing education hours associated with this certificate of completion. However, continuing education hours and professional development hours are included with each course or webinar series.

Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy

A Short Film by Cathy Malchiodi PhD

Certificate of Completion Steps

Once you are entered into the course, you will be uploading the required evidence of course completion in order to receive your Certificate as a Nature-Based Expressive Arts Practitioner

  1. 1

    • Requirements

    • The Nature-Based Expressive Arts Models

    • The Tree of Nature-Based and Eco-Focused Practices
  2. 2

    • Upload Your Certificates of Completion Here

    • Verification and Feedback
  3. 3

    • Your Certificate of Completion!

One Perspective of Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy-- Cathy Malchiodi, PhD

One of the models used in the Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy Curriculum-- we experience, sense, feel, think, and relate to nature on multiple levels!
Nature-Based Model of Expressive Arts by Cathy Malchiodi, PhD

Register for Courses Here

These Courses and Live Webinars Are Part of the Nature-Based Expressive Arts Practitioner Certificate Program