Creative Arts Therapy Center was founded by Dr. Nilgun Turkcan Ataoglu, a Creative/ Expressive Arts Therapist, International Board-Certified Trainer (BCT), Registered Drama Therapist (RDT), for the purposes of providing a supportive environment within which to strengthen the creative capacities of individuals who are on a path of growth, healing, or change. In addition to therapeutic services, we are providing supervision, training and workshops in multimodal creative arts therapies for mental health professionals who are seeking to incorporate creative approaches within their work. 

At our center, our mission is to make individuals and groups participate in the creative process via drama, dance-movement, music and visual arts, and make them explore and discover their “true” needs and desires and the inner power to realize their potential completely. We believe creativity is a key human resource for growth and change.  Our aim is to provide a compassionate, therapeutic environment in which the creativity of each individual is given room and encouragement to flourish and flow freely. Within a supportive therapeutic relationship people are able to draw on their own creative potential in order to move in a desired direction of development or change.