Therapy Services Designed for Survivors
Art Therapy & Expressive Arts Workshops
​​Art Therapy provides a powerful and transformative and expressive approach to healing for survivors of violence of all ages. We have individual sessions, group therapy, workshops, and drop-in services from school age to Elders. ​​
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Healing Hearts Through Art
From our offices to your communities, we bring our helping professionals to you to mobilize mental health care!
The Power of Play
Healing unspoken hurts
Play is one of the brain’s most natural and powerful ways to heal. In art therapy, play activates creativity, curiosity, and connection—helping the brain safely explore and process emotions that can be difficult to express with words. From a brain-based perspective, playful and creative expression engages multiple regions of the brain at once—stimulating the areas responsible for emotional regulation, problem-solving, and connection. This helps calm the nervous system, reduce stress, and strengthen the pathways that support resilience and well-being. Through painting, drawing, movement, or imaginative play, participants can reconnect with a sense of joy and self-discovery. Play in art therapy fosters not only healing, but also deeper connection—to oneself, to others, and to the world.
These sessions provide a safe, creative, and supportive space for exploration, self-expression, and connection, fostering curiosity, emotional growth, and overall well-being.
By integrating somatosensory, play, expressive arts, and spatial awareness survivors are able to process difficult emotions that may be challenging to articulate through words alone.  For individuals who have experienced trauma, art offers a non-verbal outlet for expressing complex feelings, helping to bridge the gap between the emotional and physical aspects of healing.​
Drop-in Art Studio
Come as you are
At HIR Wellness Institute, Art Therapy is offered to all ages and stages of your healing journey. Through individual sessions, group sessions, and drop-in sessions, each designed to meet you where you are in your healing journey.
These sessions provide a safe, creative, and supportive space for exploration, self-expression, and connection, fostering curiosity, emotional growth, and overall well-being.
We offer a drop-in Heart Art Studio, workshops, group therapy, and individual therapy services. To learn more about our counseling services please reach out to our Clinical Director Carmen at CFontanez@HIRwellness.org or call our CARES Warmline at 414-748-2592.
