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A Canadian – Turkish Nilgun Turkcan Ataoglu – PhD, MA, BCT, RDT – a member of Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association- who is a Creative/ Expressive Arts Therapist, a lecturer, and a supervisor. She holds a PhD Degree in Expressive Therapies Program from Lesley University in Boston and MA degree from of Creative Arts (Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Drama Therapy and Dance Movement) Therapies from Concordia University, in Montreal, and has started her clinical work at Mc. Gill University Hospital.

In her 21 years’ clinical multimodal arts therapies (drama, art, dance movement and music) work in Canada and Turkey, she has been working with outpatient psychiatric children, adolescents, adults and elders in individuals and group settings at several centers, hospitals and in her private practice.

Dr. Turkcan Ataoglu has incorporated humanist and a result-oriented approach integrated multimodal arts therapy approach specialized in the fields of traumas (physical, emotional, sexual), life changing difficulties (divorce, migration, job loss, illness, etc.), depression, anxiety disorders (phobias and panic attack), and eating disorders, pains of unknown cause, coping with cancer, attachment problems and personal development.

Dr. Turkcan Ataoglu who lectured undergraduate and graduate-level courses at Psychology department of University of UQAM (University of Quebec a Montreal) between 2007 and 2010 in Canada. Turkcan has presented at several conferences and workshops internationally in Canada, Greece, Germany, and US. She is a member of the North American Drama Therapy Association, the International Expressive Arts Therapy and the American Dance Therapy Association. She is also a Board-Certified Trainer and a Registered Drama Therapist.

Dr. Turkcan Ataoglu is a pioneer in the development of the creative arts therapies in Turkey. In 2010, she founded the first Creative Arts Therapies (CATS) program in Turkey at Sabanci Foundation. Later she rebuilt independent program and founded Creative Arts Therapy Institute in Istanbul, Turkey. 

Creative Arts Therapy (CAT) is an evidence-based mental health specialty, practiced by an experienced creative art therapist who uses several art forms such as drama, art, dance & movement, music, poetry, and photography, amongst others. It also incorporates various techniques in order to enhance the expression of emotions and thoughts for long-lasting therapeutic change. People who have increased their self-awareness through CAT are able to actualize their inner potential through their vitality and courage they have gained. Their inner transformation allows them to observe their own lives through a multitude of perspectives.

In May 2021 Dr. Turkcan Ataoglu moved back to Canada and start providing clinical creative arts therapy and training services in Toronto at ‘Arts Therapy Toronto’.

Dr. Engin Aras;
ENGIN ARAS, D. D. S., D. D. S., C. E. S, Ph. D.,

NDEB of Canada 22484

Dentist, diş hekimi
Adres: 3200 Dufferin Street Unit 3B Toronto, Ontario M6A 3B2, Canada

Telefon No: 647-508 2727 Fax: 647-343 2727 

Appointments/Randevu: 647 508 2727

Çalışma günleri: Salı ,Çarşamba, Cuma ve Cumartesi

Perşembe günleri ise Toronto Üniversitesi Dishekimligi Fakultesinde de çalışmaktadır.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Brookfield High School, Ottawa, ON, Canada in 1966. - School of Dentistry, Istanbul, Turkey in 1970 - University of Montpellier, France: and a in Prosthodontics and Maxillofacial Prosthetics 1971-1974- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery training & research conducted in Basel University, Faculty of
  Medicine, Switzerland, with Fellowships awarded twice by Turkish Scientific & Technical
  1981 & 1988
• Associate Professor of Prosthodontics and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Aegean University, Facultyof Dental Medicine, Izmir, Turkey. 12/28/82
• Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree. Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery. New York, USA., 2002-2003
• Professor of Prosthodontics, Maxillofacial Prosthetics and OMFS, Ege University. 1988.

CERTIFICATION AND LICENSING07/13/2005 Certificate of Qualification of the National Dental ExaminingBoard of Canada. No. 22484

In his practice he is focused to teaching patients the strategies necessary to maintain their teeth and oral health, to minimize teeth loss, related bone loss and deterioration of their masticatory function, oral and facial aesthetics. On top of his general dentistry, oral and implant surgery, he offers procedures designed to replace missing teeth and restore maximum function and aesthetics. He is a member of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario and of theTurkish Dental Association.

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