Hancock Center For Creative Arts Therapies

08/27/2025

After 40 Years, a Fond Farewell 💛

It’s with full hearts that we share the news: Hancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies is closing.

For four decades, we’ve had the honor of providing creative arts therapy—especially dance/movement therapy—to individuals, families, and communities across Madison. Together, we’ve created space for healing, expression, and connection through the power of movement.

To everyone who trusted us with your stories, supported our work, partnered with us in schools and beyond, or simply believed in the power of creativity to heal—thank you.

Though our doors are closing, the spirit of Hancock Center lives on in every step taken toward wholeness.

💬 We invite you to share your memories, reflections, and well-wishes in the comments. Your stories are a part of our legacy.

With deep gratitude,
—The Hancock Center Team

06/24/2025

“…participating in group [therapy] now gives me a sense of belonging. … Once I found my voice and started sharing my story and my anxieties, fellow patients taught me coping skills that worked for them.” -Telehealth Group Therapy Member
https://www.nami.org

In many cases, groups can be even more effective than individual therapy, thanks to the stigma reduction and solidarity that people experience in the presence of their peers. - the American Psychological Association

06/23/2025

You are not alone.

Joel Ojida joined the Marine Corp at 19 years old, searching for a sense of stability after a difficult childhood. While serving his country, Joel experience...

06/19/2025

In this excerpt from KnowTime number 94, ”Dance, Movement Therapy and Wellness, ft Swarali Karulkar” (https://youtu.be/Ae0ICcGv7ps?feature=shared), host Shalaj Lavania asks what can he do with his stress, nervousness and anxiety in the moment. The guest, movement therapist Karulkar, gives a prescriptive technique for bringing awareness into his body and how to move to release that emotional energy. This is a way to achieve relief and a state of openness that facilitates receiving compassion and joy and embodying health. She explains that for this exercise they’re not trying to resolve all of his problems, for instance, but to gain insight into how the body works naturally and to learn to work with our emotional energies to release stress and anxiety and prevent the buildup of worsening mental states like mood disorders. Try it! Share it with all the men in your life.

06/18/2025

06/17/2025

Real strength is vulnerability. Break the stigma - men’s mental health is in crisis because too many men are constricted by toxic norms. Ashamed, isolated, afraid, burdened and stressed. It’s time to connect and reach out. Men need support too.
The Silent Crisis of Men’s Mental Health/Dustin Hogan/TEDx Talks

https://youtu.be/4nWcEtUV4do?feature=shared

06/13/2025

🎭 Creative arts therapy changes lives.

💜 Your gift to Hancock Center helps provide access to healing through movement, music, and art.

Help us meet growing demand.🙌🏼

👉 Donate: https://givebutter.com/HancockCenterSupport

Hancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies provides inclusive psychotherapies using dance, movement, art, music, and drama. Donate today to support greater wellbeing, resilience, and mental health.

06/12/2025

“Men are less likely than women to be diagnosed with any of the most common mental health disorders. And those who have received a diagnosis are less likely to seek treatment. Yet nearly four times as many men as women die by suicide.” - 2024, https://tinyurl.com/mpphueke

06/11/2025

🧠 As ends, the need for healing continues.

🎨 For 40+ yrs, Hancock Center has helped people grow through creative arts therapy. 💃🏻

💜 You can make healing accessible.
Donate today: https://givebutter.com/HancockCenterSupport

Hancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies provides inclusive psychotherapies using dance, movement, art, music, and drama. Donate today to support greater wellbeing, resilience, and mental health.

06/06/2025

Mental health care doesn’t end with May. 💜

🎨 Hancock Center’s creative arts therapies are more needed than ever—but we can’t do it without you.
🧠 Support healing. Fuel resilience.

👉Donate today: https://givebutter.com/HancockCenterSupport

Hancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies provides inclusive psychotherapies using dance, movement, art, music, and drama. Donate today to support greater wellbeing, resilience, and mental health.

06/04/2025

As wraps up, our work continues.

For 40+ years, Hancock Center has helped people heal and grow through creative arts therapies—movement, music, art, and connection.

But most fees don’t cover the cost of care.
Your gift makes therapy accessible.
Your support fuels resilience.
Your donation makes healing possible.

The demand is growing. Help us keep going.
Give today. Every dollar matters.

https://givebutter.com/HancockCenterSupport

Hancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies provides inclusive psychotherapies using dance, movement, art, music, and drama. Donate today to support greater wellbeing, resilience, and mental health.

02/22/2025