about S.A.F.E. Studio
"...all I want is a safe place to express myself... where I can cry and write or paint and someone will understand. I just want this stuff out."
...anonymous S.A.F.E. Studio client
It is the mission of S.A.F.E. Studio to provide a place of support, safety and expression for abuse and trauma survivors. Its purpose is to enhance the current traditional therapeutic and educational services available to them. Program participants have access to a wide range of expression within a professional art studio setting.
S.A.F.E. Studio is a studio based educational and therapeutic program which treats child, adolescent and adult survivors of trauma, domestic violence and abuse. It is designed to meet the needs of survivors who would benefit from a non-traditional therapeutic and educational milieu; to provide a safe atmosphere to visually explore, process and heal aspects of abuse and trauma which are difficult to verbalize; to provide a safe environment to share and discuss the visual product; to increase survivor's self esteem through the education of artistic techniques and the achievement of the artistic product; and to prevent violence from occurring in their lives.
Each studio session is facilitated by the director, Deborah Moules, MFA or a LICSW. See a list of the Staff @ S.A.F.E Studio.
