We meet your Aquatic Therapy Needs

Training students and professionals alike 

Enjoy 24/7 access to high-quality e-learning courses developed by expert professionals. E-learning has transformed aquatic therapy education and it is now used in many countries worldwide.
About us

Do you bleed chlorine? Do you want to?

ATU Aquatic Therapy Seminars is an international provider of live and distant learning continuing education for healthcare providers who are already licensed or otherwise recognized to practice in their states and countries. We are here to help you keep your licenses current and to expand your clinical skills by offering state-of-the-art continuing education. One-hundred percent of our courses about Aquatic Therapy University are related to your favorite treatment technique, aquatic therapy.

ATU Aquatic Therapy Seminars has provided continuing education training, both through live seminars and distance learning, since it was founded in 2009. We have trained 1000s of therapists, in 30+ states and 9 countries, and trained 14 ATU instructors over the last decade. In 2012, we became one of the first CE entities to seek preapproval for all of our education through the rigorous Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy.

ATU is a continuing education provider with a singular focus: aquatic therapy. ATU is not a trade or professional school. However, therapists and therapist’s assistants who graduate with an associate’s, bachelor’s and even doctoral degree often do not have the training necessary to be skillful in their use of aquatic therapy.

ATU offers a tiered, evidence-based, continuing education progression for the aquatic therapy provider. At ATU, expect your CE horizons to be broadened and your abilities challenged. Every single one of our 2-day continuing education classes is packed full of demanding cutting-edge content.
  • flexibility to complete courses from home or work at your own pace
  • the most up-to-date scientific and clinical material
  • immediate results and feedback course quizzes and assessments
  • greater access to clinical expertise

Our vision

We achieve to be the best online learning platform for aquatic therapy providers around the world,
from day one as a student until the last day of someone’s career.

Online Courses

Completion rate in 2025

Current Enrollments

Meet Your Instructors

Kiki Dickinson

MPT

Taylor Kozell

OTD

Andrea Salzman

MS, PT, ATU Director

Live Seminars

LOVE THE WATER? Want to take a live class?
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Are you seeking a greater challenge in your continuing education? Was your aquatic therapy certificate too easy? Are you paying too much to keep it active? Our Aquaticist℠ Certificate of Advanced Recognition is challenging, clinical and wallet-friendly.
ATU trainings contain 16-hour lab-heavy seminars that will leave your head swollen and your legs wobbly. But when you have finished a minimum of 84-hours of evidence-based studies you’ll know that you accomplished something. And so will your boss and co-workers.


THE ATU CREDENTIAL
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ATU enables physical medicine & rehab professionals to map out their continuing education pursuits on a 2-5 year plan. Physical and occupational therapists and assistants can seek an ATU Certificate of Advanced Recognition in any one of 4 specialty tracks, including a General Studies option.
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Each class contains a minimum of 8 hours of lecture and 8 hours of pool lab (worth 1.6 CEUs or more). These credits can all be applied to a final 84-hour ATU Certificate of Advanced Recognition in any of the Tracks listed below. And, with over 25 classes to choose from, it is possible for you to custom design your own series of CE.
Aquaticist Prerequisites

ATU courses are taught with the assumption that attendees have at least an entry-level degree or its equivalent in experience. No time is spent on the underlying principles of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. ATU offers therapy professionals a tiered, evidence-based progression of continuing education. Classes are open to PTs/PTAs, OTs/OTAs, and (some classes) speech therapists. Other professionals who are legally permitted to perform aquatic therapy may also attend seminars with the assumption that each professional is required to only apply knowledge within his or her scope of practice.

Only PTs, PTAs, OTs and OTAs can seek recognition through the Aquaticist Credential training.​ Sample ATU Coursework: Students must log a minimum of 5 classes in a single track, plus take a 4-hour Boot Camp module. For more information on what classes must be taken, see below.

Learn online using our award winning courses

Enjoy 24/7 access to aquatic therapy modules developed by expert professionals: PT, OT, SLP, TRS, and others 
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