Earn your Graduate Diploma Counselling Psychotherapy Counselling Art Psychotherapy

Portside Art and Relational Therapy Institute: Where Learning Leads to Healing

On-Line and In-Person
Portside ART Institute (PARTI) programs are designed to help you to find your true personal and professional potential. Our programs are flexible, relevant and accessible.

Graduate Diploma Advanced Counselling Psychotherapy (C.Psych)

The curriculum covers counselling methodologies, ethical standards, couples and family systems, group counselling and cultural diversity, The program concludes with a 30-week (400 hour) practicum, integrating theory and practice under supervision. Graduates can apply for professional registration. May go on to pursue careers as mental health service providers, clinical counsellors, psychotherapists, community agency counsellors, mental health program administrators, psychometrist, and educators. Program duration is 3 years and starts January, May, or September.

Graduate Diploma Advanced Counselling Art Psychotherapy (C. Art Psych)

The curriculum covers art counselling methodologies, ethical standards, couples and family systems, group art counselling, cultural diversity, and child and youth development. The program concludes with a 30-week (400 hour) practicum, integrating theory and practice under supervision. Graduates can apply for professional registration. May go on to pursue careers providing services to all ages as mental health service providers, clinical counsellors, psychotherapists, community agency counsellors, mental health program administrators, and educators. Program duration is 3 years and starts January, May, September.

Why Portside

We know what it takes to pursue professional goals. Our programs are offered with a sense of ease and fluidity, are straightforward and direct, and offers an ease of learning.

Learn at your Pace

• You design your schedule
• Year-round semester start-dates
• A pace to suit your needs
• On-line programming and on-line or in-person practicum opportunities

Supportive Environment

• Small class sizes for enhanced learning
• All inclusive programming
• Supportive faculty that works with your individual needs

Stand out from the rest

Portside Art and Relational Therapy Institute (PARTI) brings together an integrative team of experienced professional clinicians to provide a comprehensive range of retreats, programs, supports, supervision, resources and continuing education. We are passionate about empowering others to lead inspired, meaningful and abundant lives to understand the mind-body-relationship connection to be the best you can be!

We provide an integrative and relational approach to our programs that brings together trauma and systematically informed therapies that are emotion based bodily rooted and experiential in approach, through both mainline and alternative approaches for clinicians to provide best practices for the clients.