11242NAT is the nationally accredited Graduate Diploma of Sandtray Therapy. It prepares you for work as a psychotherapist. It has been the current version on the national register since 2023, when it replaced 10757NAT. About 580 psychotherapist jobs were advertised in June 2026, down 24.5% on a year earlier.
The long-term signals behind the Graduate Diploma of Sandtray Therapy are positive, though current job advertising is below a year earlier. Psychotherapists are in national shortage, employment is projected to grow through 2035 and enrolments are rising. Job ads in June 2026 were down 24.5% on a year earlier. These are official statistics, not a promise about your result.
Employers are posting fewer psychotherapist jobs than a year ago. About 580 psychotherapist jobs were advertised online in June 2026, down 24.5% on a year earlier. Over the last 12 months there were about 8,000 job ads, while 25 people were training in the course nationally (2025). Ads show the market. Enrolments show the pipeline. Neither is a job promise.
Australia's official shortage list rates clinical psychologists, educational psychologists, organisational psychologists and psychologists necs as in shortage. The 2025 Occupation Shortage List rates Clinical Psychologist, Educational Psychologist, Organisational Psychologist and Psychologists nec as in national shortage; Psychotherapist as not in shortage.
Psychotherapist jobs are projected to keep growing strongly. Jobs and Skills Australia projections put these occupations at 51,199 workers in May 2025, 59,806 by May 2030 (up 16.8%) and 66,866 by May 2035 (up 30.6%).
More people are choosing the Graduate Diploma of Sandtray Therapy every year. Across Australia, 15 people enrolled in 2024. In 2025 it was 25, up 66.7% in a year. National data for 11242NAT starts in 2024.
The register and the national framework set some of this. Providers set the rest.
State funding for 11242NAT is being verified against official program lists.
Eligibility and student contributions vary by program and provider. The official state listing is the source of truth. In a subsidised place the government pays most of the tuition and you pay a co-contribution set by the program and provider.
No Get Course partner currently lists this course. Check the national register for organisations approved to deliver it, and remember that approval to deliver is a regulatory fact, not a recommendation. You can browse live courses from our partners and enquire today.
Browse coursesGet Course maps 11242NAT to its occupations using the register’s own outcome wording, shown with ANZSCO codes (here, 2723) so the mapping can be checked. Job advertisement counts come from the Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index and count online ads, not vacancies filled. Enrolment counts come from NCVER Total VET Activity and count people in training, not completions. Funding rows appear only after verification against the official state program list. Source vintages: Occupation Shortage List 2025 assessment; Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index latest month June 2026; NCVER Total VET Activity 2025 collection; employment projections May 2025 to May 2035 release; register training.gov.au, synced 29 August 2026; register synced 29 Aug 2026. Page last updated 30 Aug 2026.