Our mission is to support emotional healing through art and creative expression for those living with pain, grief, fear or stress.
Our programs provide support, acknowledgement, and personal acceptance to those who may be experiencing illness, homelessness, abuse, or painful challenges in life.
We give pain a voice and meaning by providing expressive abstract art workshops to support emotional healing.
We’re different from other art programs. Our Art4Healing® curriculum contains strictly guided exercises, rather than loosely formatted art sessions. These exercises are specially designed to elicit emotional responses. Participants leave encouraged, with enhanced clarity and insight.
Art4Healing® vs. Art Therapy
We are NOT an Art Therapy provider. We share art as a tool for self-expression and self-exploration. The structure of the Art4Healing® sessions makes clear that the leaders are facilitators of the creative process, not therapists guiding it. ACFH facilitators don’t offer any interpretation or diagnosis.
The focus remains on the participants in charge of their own exploration. The fact that this process is therapeutic DOES NOT make it art therapy.
Art therapy is actually a legally separate institution and field of practice.