1. Therapy

In my clinical multimodal arts therapies approach (drama, art, dance movement and music), I incorporate humanist and a result-oriented approach and integrated multimodal arts therapy approaches specialized in the fields of adverse childhood experiences (especially physical/emotional/sexual abuse & physical / emotional neglect), attachment problems, depression, anxiety disorders (phobias and panic attack),life changing difficulties (divorce, migration, job loss, illness, etc.), and eating disorders, trauma,  pains of unknown cause,  relationship issues and personal development.

You do not need to have any artistic skills!!!

All services are given to individuals, couples, families and groups both in English and Turkish.

Adult clients of many ages, cultural backgrounds, orientations, and world views are all welcome.

Creative Arts Therapies are offered in the following formats:

✓ Individual Session

✓ Couples Therapy

✓ Family Therapy

✓ Group Session

I strongly believe that no one should be pressured to decide whether or not they want to work with a therapist before meeting them. That’s why I will see you at no charge to make sure we are a good fit for each other before starting our journey together.

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2. Trainings and Workshops

In addition to therapeutic services, we are providing supervision, training and workshops internationally in multimodal creative arts therapies for training therapists and/or mental health professionals who are seeking to incorporate creative approaches within their work.

These trainings and workshops are given by Dr. Nilgun Turkcan Ataoglu who is Board Certified Trainer (BCT). BCT means the person has completed the training and maintains the appropriate certifications to facilitate arts therapy workshop and to train participants according to the requirements set out by the licensing entity. Psychologists, psychological counsellors, family therapists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, family physicians, who work in the fields of mental health and education, and post-graduate arts therapists are able to attend these trainings.

Previous Trainings

✓ Creative Arts Therapy on Family, Marriage and Couple Therapy

This training aims to provide opportunity for mental health professionals to understand how the creative arts therapy can be used in working with couples and families. On training practices, “Fictional Family” model which was developed by Mr. Murial Gold, will be used. The participants will have opportunity to experience these techniques themselves.

Projective Techniques & Functions & Applications in working conflict

Sociometry (Social-atom, Sculpture, and Family Choreography)

Role-playing & Fictional Family Modal

Use of Therapeutic Cards and Family Photographs

Example of Case Studies (Communication Problems, Disagreements, Deception, and Divorce and so on)

✓ Heroine’s Journey to find ‘the Self’

With the changing world, the roles and responsibilities that women should undertake are constantly changing. Today, women are trying to meet very different expectations. For example; ‘a good wife’, ‘a compassionate mother’, ‘a meticulous and organized housewife and a successful businesswoman’, also ‘a self-sacrificing daughter’, ‘a good sister’, ‘a loyal friend’ are some of the roles that women have to undertake. Today’s women who try to play these entire roles successfully also try to fulfil the stereotyped expectations, which are imposed on them by the consuming society such as ‘being beautiful’, ‘being skinny’, and ‘being feminine’. Within all these role confusions and conflicts, women and mothers feel like a failure and worthless from time to time. They unfortunately mostly overlook their dreams, who they actually are, and whom they want to be as women.

In this workshop, participants will explore their identity as women and have a journey towards their own femininity by using different creative techniques such as painting, story-telling, music and dramatization. After dramatizing their experiences, they examine the relations between the role they created, fiction and their own life experiences.

IF…You are tired of experiencing the roles imposed on you by the society as Women. Or you want to explore and rediscover your feminine side with creative methods…

This workshop is for you….