Support the cost of art supplies such as construction paper & canvases needed to provide art therapy at Penfield Montessori Academy. This package will go directly to Penfield Montessori Academy for their students.

With your generosity, PMA's free art therapy sessions will help students with disabilities and behavioral challenges learn to regulate their emotions, strengthen their self-expression, and heal from traumatic experiences.

Art therapy is an integrative mental health profession that uses active art-making, the creative process, applied psychological theory, and the human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship. Led by a masters-level clinician, art therapy applies a combination of approaches, including kinesthetic, sensory, perceptual, and symbolic, to engage the body, mind, and spirit and provide a communication path that is not limited to verbal language. Art therapy helps foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insights, reduce and resolve conflicts, build healthy relationships, reduce tension and anxiety, and improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions (American Art Therap y Association, 2018).

The principles and methodology of art therapy strongly align with PMA's educational philosophy.