The CREATE Institute is a Toronto-based training institute in intermodal expressive arts therapy, registered as a career college in Ontario.
The CREATE Institute is a training institute in intermodal expressive arts therapy. Its mission is to train expressive arts therapists who are self-reflective, self-aware, therapeutically proficient and highly sensitive to both verbal and non-verbal communication. The institute is intended to be inclusive of multiple viewpoints that reflect and honour individual and cultural differences.
ISIS Canada, the International School of Interdisciplinary Studies, was founded in 1991 by Ellen and Stephen Levine, together with Fran Harwood, as a free-standing training institute affiliated with EGS. The CREATE Institute was formerly known as ISIS Canada, Creative Integrative Arts Therapies Training Program. CREATE has trained expressive arts therapists in Toronto for over twenty years. Stephen K. Levine was the co-founder of The CREATE Institute.
The CREATE Institute offers a three-year Expressive Arts Therapy Training Program, which is recognized by the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario. The institute is a collaborating partner with the European Graduate School, Malta (EGS) in Switzerland. It is also a member of the International Network of Expressive Arts Therapy Training Centers, which interconnects institutes in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.
CREATE Studio is located at 489 Queen St. East, 3rd floor, Suite 300, Toronto, ON M5A 1V1. The institute operates the Create Clinic, a student therapy clinic.
Bachelor's degree admission is interview-based with ongoing intake. Non-degree admission is available through Prior Learning Assessment Recognition (PLAR). International student admission is currently suspended.