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Established 2010
Indiana’s professional association for art therapists
IndiATA advances art therapy in Indiana through professional connection, education, advocacy, public understanding, student engagement, and statewide chapter leadership.
Art therapy is a mental health profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.
Art therapy, facilitated by a professional art therapist, effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals as well as community concerns.
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What brings you to IndiATA?
Statewide Initiatives
Connect across Indiana.
Statewide connection is more than gathering in one place. IndiATA is building ways for people, programs, organizations, communities and opportunities to connect across regions and systems.
Initiative
Regional Meet-Ups
Local gatherings may create stronger professional relationships, easier participation and ongoing points of connection throughout Indiana.
Initiative
Regional Creative Hives
Practices, studios, workplaces, community spaces and other appropriate settings may help provide regional spaces where art therapists and students gather, create, connect and share resources.
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Statewide Art Therapist Directory
A growing statewide professional directory may help people locate credentialed Indiana art therapists while strengthening visibility of where art therapy services are available.
Initiative
Referral Pathways
Stronger connections among professionals, communities and systems may help identify art therapy resources and clarify where services are available.
Initiative
Graduate Programs + Students
Indiana graduate programs and emerging professionals are part of the statewide network from the beginning, connecting education, field experience and professional community.
Legislators and public officials
Help move the next bill forward.
Indiana does not currently license art therapists as a distinct profession. IndiATA is pursuing an art therapy-specific licensure pathway through the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana. SB 338 in 2023 passed the Indiana Senate 47–2 before being referred to House Public Health.
IndiATA is seeking legislative authors, sponsors, coauthors, cosponsors, professional supporters, testimony, outreach, and coalition support for the next art therapy licensure bill.
The profession
One profession, several professional systems.
Graduate education, program accreditation, national credentials, professional membership, state licensure, and employer requirements are related, but they answer different questions.
Program accreditation
CAAHEP accredits art therapy education programs upon the recommendation of ACATE.
Individual credentials
The Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB) issues current national credentials: ATR-P, ATR, ATR-BC, and ATCS.
Professional association
AATA is the national professional membership association. IndiATA is its Indiana state chapter. Neither issues credentials or state licenses.