Our Vision
Creative Arts Therapies Canada (CATC) is an alternative and holistic healthcare organization with a mission of fostering awareness of creative arts therapies and increasing access to creative arts therapy services.
Our goal is to facilitate enriching connections between healthcare facilities, organizations, and institutions, and highly skilled and passionate creative arts therapists and psychotherapists. Through our growing network of practitioners, we aim to expand access to creative arts therapies while supporting meaningful collaboration across disciplines.
Our approach recognizes the whole person, including the emotional, social, physical, creative, and spiritual dimensions of wellbeing. We believe in the transformative potential of the arts to foster connection, expression, healing, and meaningful engagement.
CATC is committed to serving, promoting, and advocating for each therapeutic modality and allied arts in therapy, including but not limited to Art Therapy, Drama Therapy, Music Therapy, Play Therapy, Horticultural Therapy, and Dance/Movement Therapy.
As CATC continues to grow, our vision is to foster greater awareness, connection, and access to creative arts therapies across Canada.
“The creative process allows for artistic self-expression which in turn helps individuals to solve conflicts, improve self-esteem, develop self-awareness, and insight.”