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Arts for Healing
The Arts for Healing Project at PFMFA offers FREE art classes and workshops for veterans, first responders, and others affected by trauma. In partnership with local organizations, the program uses therapeutic art activities to support emotional, social, and physical healing. For details, call 281-376-6322.
● Program Overview
Arts for Healing
The Arts for Healing Project at Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts provides specially designed art classes and workshops for veterans, first responders, or populations that have experienced trauma to facilitate their creative wellness. This project focuses on a specific curriculum designed to rebuild physical and emotional skill sets through art experiences and therapy. The classes are free. Please call 281-376-6322 for more information.
Using the expertise and input of community partners, Arts for Healing will work directly with the participating partner organizations with therapeutic art activities and experiences to address the emotional, social, and physical challenges that these populations face.
What is Art Therapy?
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 sensory-motor 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.
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Meet the Therapist!
Sarah Whitmire, owner and therapist at Whitmire Counseling and Supervision, provides assessments, treatment planning, and therapy for adults, adolescents, and children. She specializes in trauma, anxiety, and life transitions, and supervises LPC-Associates and Art Therapists working toward ATR licensure.
Before founding her practice, Sarah worked at Spring Grove Counseling, offering therapy to individuals and families via in-person and telehealth sessions. From 2015 to 2018, she served as a Facility Mental Health Therapist with Harris County Juvenile Probation, supporting adolescents in residential programs and specialty courts, providing court testimony, and collaborating with probation officers.
Her experience also includes working as a Licensed Professional of Healing Arts Specialist at The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD, where she supported mentally ill reoffenders, performed risk assessments, taught cognitive-behavioral programs, and completed clinical evaluations. Additionally, as a Behavioral Health Specialist at Brenham State Supported Living Center, she created case plans for clients with intellectual and mental health disabilities and worked with interdisciplinary teams to promote the least restrictive environments.
A Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor and Board-Certified Art Therapist, Sarah has advanced training in play therapy, DBT, EMDR, sand tray, and acceptance and commitment therapy. She has attended national conferences on sexual assault advocacy and completed specialized training in cultural competency, psychopharmacology, and CBT.
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