Ana Duran
Art Therapist
Only by accepting ourselves can we embark on an inward journey that is both enriching and transformative. Through therapy, we can find our purpose and relate to the world and others with certainty, love, and acceptance.
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About me
My name is Ana Durán. I believe in the importance of enhancing our intuition to connect with ourselves and gain a more trusting, authentic, and whole-life experience. After graduating with a degree in Fine Arts in Colombia, I migrated to Canada, where I specialized in Psychology and completed a Master’s in Art Psychotherapy.
Due to my migration experience, which brought impactful experiences and significant challenges, my purpose became to support others in their own times of change and transition, help ease their pain, and embark on a growth and healing process. Since then, my work has focused on young people and adults facing emotional challenges and mental health issues related to trauma, migration, and addiction.
I have worked with diverse communities in Canada, Germany, and Spain for the past ten years. In clinical and community settings, I have founded open art studios and co-founded a psychosocial support center serving people experiencing extreme distress, providing art therapy, crisis support, and mental health care.
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Location:
Media Gallery
Approach
Mine is a holistic approach that recognizes the impact of past and present wounds on the mind, emotions, and body. Based on humanistic and psychodynamic backgrounds, I have developed a method integrating innovative and solid theories about the body and the mind. It provides concrete tools to facilitate positive changes through the art therapy process.
I offer a joint journey into your inner world to discover, name, understand, and externalize what needs to be addressed with love and acceptance, alleviating emotional burdens. This proposal is developed through individual sessions where together we set the guidelines and pace for that journey of self-knowledge and growth.
I facilitate the exploration and expression of emotions through materials and images arising from your creative process. This process occurs through a respectful relationship and a verbal exchange where we identify the issues that need more attention to establish a meaningful dialogue between your creation, yourself, and me as a therapist. Thus, the unconscious realm unfolds to be seen, accepted and understood instead of feared and avoided. Through creativity, problem-solving, self-esteem, resolution of trauma, and reconciliation with your life purpose will be found.
I generally do this under a semi-directive approach in which you can explore materials intuitively and autonomously. Depending on your needs, I suggest and introduce materials that can facilitate the evocation of certain mental or emotional states, that facilitate a cathartic expression (anger, fear, anguish), or enter into states of calm and support emotional regulation.
No talent or previous experience with art materials is necessary.
Experience
- Private consultation with adults and children (2018-current)
-Art therapist at the Addictions Unit at the Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona (current)
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Art therapist and Counselor at the Health and Community Foundation for the addictions centers, Barcelona (2022-current).
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Co-founder, Art Therapist, and Counselor at the PSZ (Psychosocial Center for Migrants in Rostock, Germany), (2020-2022)
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Founder and Art Therapist of the Open Art Studio "Newcomer Art Hive", Rostock, (2018-2022)
Education
-Canadian Counselor Certification (CCC), 2023, (Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association)
-Trauma Training: Treatment from an integrative and practical perspective 2024 (Gestalt Institute, Barcelona)
-Introduction to EMDR and Body, 2023 (Somatic Experiencing, Barcelona).
-Trauma-Informed Expressive Art Therapy course, 2021 (Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute)
- Art Psychotherapy, MA. 2018 (Concordia University, Montreal).
-Psychology, Minor. 2014 (UQAM, Montreal).
- Fine Arts, BFA. 2008 (National University, Colombia)
Services
Intro Call
Individual Session
Individual Session
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