The purpose of this study was to grasp the gist of the nature and meaning of the experience of art therapists for abused children through the response art of the art therapists who were performing art therapy for them. Participants in the study were four art therapists for abused children. Data analysis was conducted in accordance with the empirical, phenomenological, and experiential research method of Van Manen(1990). As a result, 77 semantic units, 30 subtopics, and 10 intrinsic topics were derived. The results of study were as follows. First, art therapists often met abused children by chance. Second, art therapists felt emotions that had not been recognized before by dealing with the emotions that they could feel about their cases and by truly facing the therapists themselves through self-response art. Third, not only art therapists grow a lot as a therapist through meetings with them who had to grow up in a reality where they were not loved by their parents, but also they constantly thought about what kind of therapist they wanted to be and the qualities they should have. The findings from the experiences of therapists who worked with abused children would offered a direction and a foundation to deliver secure and efficient treatment therapy in this domain. Based on these contents, the significance and limitations of this study were discussed.