The Art Therapy Association of India (TATAI), established in 2019, is here to promote Art Therapy as a valuable and regulated profession within the mental health ecosystem of India, contributing to individual, community and social wellbeing. Historically speaking since the inception of Art Therapy in the 1990s, it has taken almost two decades to gather a critical mass of professionally trained art therapists so we may contribute to TATAI’s goal of creating ethical guidelines and set professional standards for the practice of Art Therapy in India.

The Association will strive to become a ‘unifying platform’ for the profession in India, by connecting practitioners, educators, advocates and students of Art Therapy in India to foster shared learning, collaboration, mentoring, networking, experience sharing, research, and other activities of mutual benefit and value creation for the profession in India. TATAI aims to act as ‘the bridge’ connecting Indian Art Therapy practitioners, educators and students to various stakeholders in similar and allied fields, in India and worldwide.