Magdalena Rubeša after obtaining her master's diploma in Primary Education (MAed), Magdalena specialized in Art Therapy at the Postmaster Specialist Study Program of Creative Therapies in Osijek. Her thesis research focused on art therapy interventions for individuals with Down syndrome. This research served as the foundation for the first Croatian art therapy exhibition titled "Art terapy process" held at Kneževa Palace, Zadar, in 2019. She complemented the exhibition with the lecture "What is Art Therapy."

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Magdalena also has extensive experience in art therapy work with the elderly population with Alzheimer's and dementia, as well as individuals with physical disabilities and those with traumatic brain injuries. Furthermore, she assists anxious and depressed clients in individual and group art therapy sessions.

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She participated in a group exhibition with other Croatian art therapy students at the George Washington University Art Therapy Gallery in USA, 2018. Additionally, she spoke of Croatian traditional lace from the island of Pag in the presentation "Using Ancient Cultural Traditions in Developing Contemporary Croatian Art Therapy."

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Magdalena was part of the art therapy team that organized workshop "All Colors Stress" at the 9th Congress of the Croatian Family Medicine Coordination (KoHom), held in Šibenik in 2018. Under the mentorship of Mercedes Balbe ter Maat, she presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the American Art Therapy Association in Miami, FL, USA, in 2018, on the topics of "Art therapy for survivors of trauma" and "The Power of Art in Treatment of Those Affected by Family Crisis."  She also presented as part of a symposium on Creative Therapies at the 13th International Congress EAMHID in Berlin in 2021.

Magdalena serves as the Vice President of the Croatian Association for Art Therapy (HART) and is the President of the Association's Ethics Committee.

Memberships: 
Croatian Art Therapy Association (HART)