Dr. Nilgun Turkcan Ataoglu, BCT, RDT
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Licensed & Registered Creative Arts Therapist
I am a Creative Arts Therapist, a Registered Drama Therapist - RDT, a Board-Certified Trainer - BCT, a supervisor and I am the founder and the director of Creative Arts Therapy Center…I have over 22 years of experience in promoting growth and healing through engagement in the arts.
Becoming a creative arts therapist has been long, extremely exciting and rewarding journey for me. Since I was a child, I was often expressing my thoughts and feelings through art, storytelling, role playing and writing poems, which made me to discover the healing power of arts at very early age. In 1999, when I found out about the MA Program in Creative Arts Therapies, at Concordia University, in Canada and I was accepted to the Master’s studies, my biggest dream came through. During my two years internships at McGill University Hospital, I became aware of my abilities to listen and have empathy towards others' suffering. After graduating and having for 11 years clinical experience, my motivation and curiosity about the field led me to start my PhD study in Expressive Therapies Program at Lesley University, in Boston. During my twenty-two years of clinical experience, I have privileged to help and to witness so many people to discover the meaning of their shattered life and to be empowered by creating and rewriting their life stories through drama, art, dance and music. To experience the honor of being entrusted with deepest secrets or overwhelming experiences also to experience with and to ''hold'' another human being through the process of healing, and transformation is the greatest reward one can experience.
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Client Focus
Session Format: Couple, Family, Group, Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult, Children, Senior, Teen
Languages: English, Turkish
Treatment Approach
- Art Therapy
- Dance/Movement Therapy
- Drama Therapy
- Existential/Humanistic
- Gestalt
- Music Therapy
Approach Description: In my clinical multimodal arts therapies approach (drama, art, dance movement and music)-You do not need to have any artistic skills at all!!!, I incorporate humanist and a result-oriented approach 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.
My mission is to make individuals and groups to 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 potentials completely. I believe creativity is a key human resource for growth and change. My 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.
As a therapist, my focus is on understanding my clients' unique experiences and needs. While diagnoses can be helpful in certain situations, they are not the end-all-be-all in mental health treatment. By taking a more individualized and holistic approach, I can better support my clients in their journey towards recovery.
I focus on helping to uncover my clients’ inner strengths and develop life-long skills. We all have innate strengths, but we are not always aware of them and they are difficult to access when we are feeling anxious, stressed, depressed, insecure, out of control of our life, or just overall feeling “lost.” I work with my client to understand the barriers that are keeping him/her from living the life she/he wants, and help him/her to learn and improve on coping strategies or skills that will help him/her to address those barriers in effective and meaningful ways. I will also help my clients to identify and to work towards achieving real and attainable goals.
My interaction with a client is conversational and creative. I am both passionate about and fascinated with the relationship between the mind and the body, and our work together with a client reflects that passion and knowledge.
Education & Credentials
Dr. Nilgun Turkcan Ataoglu, BCT, RDT Licensed & Registered Creative Arts Therapist
- Female
- License # 112
- Practicing Since 2001
Education: M.A Creative Arts Therapy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and Ph.D. Expressive Therapies, Lesley University, Boston, US.
Finances
Insurance
- Out of Network
Dr. Nilgun Turkcan Ataoglu, BCT, RDT Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available In-Person in Ankara and Toronto, ON
- Available Online for residents of Turkey, Ontario
- Online Therapy Details: Zoom, Skype
In my clinical multimodal arts therapies approach (drama, art, dance movement and music)-You do not need to have any artistic skills at all!!!, I incorporate humanist and a result-oriented approach 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.
My mission is to make individuals and groups to 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 potentials completely.
I believe creativity is a key human resource for growth and change. My 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.
As a therapist, my focus is on understanding my clients' unique experiences and needs. While diagnoses can be helpful in certain situations, they are not the end-all-be-all in mental health treatment. By taking a more individualized and holistic approach, I can better support my clients in their journey towards recovery.
I focus on helping to uncover my clients’ inner strengths and develop life-long skills. We all have innate strengths, but we are not always aware of them and they are difficult to access when we are feeling anxious, stressed, depressed, insecure, out of control of our life, or just overall feeling “lost.” I work with my client to understand the barriers that are keeping him/her from living the life she/he wants, and help him/her to learn and improve on coping strategies or skills that will help him/her to address those barriers in effective and meaningful ways. I will also help my clients to identify and to work towards achieving real and attainable goals.
My interaction with a client is conversational and creative. I am both passionate about and fascinated with the relationship between the mind and the body, and our work together with a client reflects that passion and knowledge.