PAINT. HEAL. GROW.
Everyone is an artist and can heal through the creative process. Art making enhances self-acceptance, and our personal and spiritual connections.
PAINT. HEAL. GROW.
Everyone is an artist and can heal through the creative process. Art making enhances self-acceptance, and our personal and spiritual connections.
What We Do
Art & Creativity for Healing, Inc. (ACFH) supports emotional healing for individuals, children, and families through the Art4Healing® method.
Our Trained and Certified Facilitators around the world lead a wide variety of themed workshops, offering participants meaningful choices based on their personal needs.
These workshops explore topics such as stress management, the pursuit of happiness, relationship challenges, anger awareness and regulation, coping with betrayal, navigating profound loss, and much more.
All Art4Healing® Facilitators receive their training and certification through Art & Creativity for Healing, Inc., based in Laguna Hills, California.
Through the Art4Healing® method, we learn how to release emotions—especially those that negatively impact our lives.
As we let go, we often experience a growing sense of lightness, happiness, health, and compassion.
With continued emotional release, many aspects of life begin to improve.
As inner struggle and resistance soften, anxiety and emotional distress can fade, and even physical symptoms or life circumstances once experienced as misfortune may begin to shift.
Anny Zachariades is a certified facilitator based in Limassol, Cyprus. Start your healing process with Anny today.
How We Do It
Through a variety of workshops offered in English or Greek, we give voice and meaning to emotions, using painting as a powerful language of communication.
How We Are Different
Unlike most art programs that focus primarily on the final artwork, the Art4Healing® curriculum is built around guided exercises rather than loosely structured art sessions.
Each exercise is intentionally designed to evoke emotional responses and support inner awareness.
Participants leave the workshops feeling encouraged, with greater clarity, insight, and a deeper understanding of themselves.
explore. create. heal.
With 24 tailored workshops, there's an appropriate creative healing process for all needs, whether recreational or practical.
Our Workshops
Art4Healing® Workshops invite participants to connect with inner feelings that words often cannot express.
A certified facilitator gently guides participants through a series of prompts, encouraging them to respond by painting abstractly with acrylic paints on canvas.
This method supports safe and meaningful emotional expression by helping participants associate colors with feelings.
By the end of each workshop, every participant takes home three completed paintings—personal reflections of their inner journey.
Art4Healing® vs. Art Therapy
We are not an art therapy provider.
Art4Healing® shares art as a tool for self-expression and self-exploration.
The structure of our sessions clearly defines facilitators as guides of the creative process—not therapists directing or analyzing it. ACFH facilitators do not offer interpretation or diagnosis.
The focus remains on participants taking responsibility for their own personal exploration.
While the process may be therapeutic, this does not make it art therapy. Art therapy is a distinct, legally recognized profession and field of practice.