This workshop covers the requirements you need to know to register to provide arts  therapy for clients impacted by sexual abuse funded by ACC. The workshop will cover ACC's requirements relating to qualifications and clinical experience,  and ongoing requirements from ACC post registration. The registration process will be covered, and how to go about finding a supplier.  

This is open to anyone who is located in New Zealand and interested in registering to do this work, from experienced professionals, to students who are looking at this as a future revenue source once they have sufficient experience. The workshop will consist of a presentation, and will include time for questions. There is no experiential component in this workshop.

PRESENTER:

Tania is a professional Arts Therapist, and holds a supplier contract with ACC for sensitive claims (sexual abuse). She graduated Whitecliffe in 2013, and has specialised in working with trauma for most of her career. Tania has a special interest in working with shame, and has also done extensive training in working with dissociation and eating disorders. She is the director of choose2change, and has approximately 80 therapists subcontracting for ACC work across NZ.

When: Saturday 25 July 2026
Time: 10am-11.30am NZDT
(not applicable to other countries) 
Duration/CPD: 1.5 hrs
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Open to: Practising and Student Members in New Zealand only
Max: 30 participants
Recorded session: No (Privacy Reasons)

Cancellation Policy
When you register and pay to attend one of our events, you are holding a space on our calendar that is no longer available to other members. In order to be respectful of your fellow members and the presenter, please email us as soon as you know you will not be able to attend the event. We keep our events as affordable as possible and need to pay presenters the fee they request. While we understand sometimes urgent matters come up, if registrants cancel at the last minute, we struggle to pay presenters. A full refund will be given if the cancellation occurs more than 24 hours before the event. If the cancellation occurs less than 24 hours before the event, 50% of your registration fee will be refunded only to defray our costs.

This hour-long drop-in session with the new leadership team at ANZACATA occurs the last Wednesday of the month and all members are welcome to join. There is no agenda, no commitment, just pop in anytime you like for a chat with James Beckford Saunders (CEO), Peter Muntz (Membership and Communications lead) and Sara Kirsner (Policy and Regulations Lead) and with other ANZACATA members.

When: Wednesday 29 July 2026
Time: 12pm-1pm AEST / 10am-11am AWST / 11.30pm-12.30pm ACST / 2pm-3pm NZST
Duration/CPD: 1 hour
Where: ZOOM
Cost: Free
Open to: All members
Recorded session: No (privacy reasons)

This training will contain theory, experiential learning, and opportunities for supervision practice, and can be used as either an arts-therapy based PD opportunity, or towards registration as an approved supervisor with ANZACATA.

It is best suited to experienced professional members, as it assumes a working clinical knowledge and experience in arts therapy.

The training will cover:

1. Definitions of supervision
2. A variety of models and approaches to supervision
3. Arts-based integration
4. Clinical practice
5. Ethics and Contracts

The course will be 40 hours over 5 sessions (including 15 hours of experiential practice) in keeping with ANZACATA policy requirements of Approved Supervisors. Participants will be expected to engage in supervision practice with other participants between the online sessions in order to complete the required number of hours to register as an ANZACATA supervisor.

Please note only Professional Members can be on the ANZACATA Approved Supervisor listing and completion of this training course does not constitute an application to become an ANZACATA Approved Supervisor.

PRESENTER BIO

Tilly Dawson (she/her) is a professional member, practicing art therapist, and ANZACATA-approved supervisor. Tilly specialises in clinical art therapy within healthcare and oncology settings. She is a passionate clinician with experience in providing individual and group sessions for patients and their families across the lifespan. Throughout her career, Tilly has supervised numerous students and has work as a casual Academic at La Trobe University within the Master of Art Therapy program. Her areas of interest and application in art therapy include medical art therapy, palliative care, trauma-informed practices, and supervision.

When: 30, 31 October and 1, 14, 15 November 2026
Time: 12–5 pm AEDT (11am – 4 pm QLD, 2–7 pm NZDT, 9 am–2 pm AWST/HKT/SGT)
Duration/CPD: 40 hours
Where: Zoom
Cost: $500 (+GST for Aust. members)
Open to: Experienced Professional Members
Min/Max: 8/16 participants
Recorded session: No (Privacy Reasons)

Cancellation Policy:
When you register and pay to attend one of our events, you are holding a space on our calendar that is no longer available to other members. In order to be respectful of your fellow members and the presenter, please email us as soon as you know you will not be able to attend the event. We keep our events as affordable as possible and need to pay presenters the fee they request. While we understand sometimes urgent matters come up, if registrants cancel at the last minute, we struggle to pay presenters. A full refund will be given if the cancellation occurs more than 24 hours before the event. If the cancellation occurs less than 24 hours before the event, 50% of your registration fee will be refunded only to defray our costs.