This study aimed to investigate tne importance and meaning of safe art therapy space and how it was experienced through the stories of art therapists, who took the lead in using and composing the space. Narrative inquiry methodology was utilized to explore the meanings, and the data obtained through the conversations between the researcher and five art therapists were selected by purposive sampling. The examination of meanings generated through stories demonstrated that there was a certain relationship between the process of becoming an art therapist and the perceptual changes involving the space. Finding suggested an art therapist, who was previously a passive subject regarding art therapy space, experienced the necessity of safety and began implementing the possibility of safety and exploration in the art therapy space based on his or her life experiences. As the history of the client was added to art therapy space, the therapist better understood the meaning of the space as a passage connecting the world with the client.