“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ― Pablo Picasso
The mission of Madewell Art Studio is to provide the Gulf Coast with a safe and welcoming space for counseling and therapeutic art making. We will strive to foster personal growth, establish and attain goals, and focus on you or your child’s needs as a client.
The door to creativity, self-expression, and self awareness can be opened through art.
THE PROFESSION
The American Art Therapy Association defines Art therapy as the following:
Art therapy is an integrative mental health and human services profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.
Art therapy, facilitated by a professional art therapist, effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals as well as community concerns. Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change.
Through integrative methods, art therapy engages the mind, body, and spirit in ways that are distinct from verbal articulation alone. Kinesthetic, sensory, perceptual, and symbolic opportunities invite alternative modes of receptive and expressive communication, which can circumvent the limitations of language. Visual and symbolic expression gives voice to experience and empowers individual, communal, and societal transformation.
American Art Therapy Association