I’m Özge Çimen. After finishing my psychology education at Yaşar University in Turkey, I moved to Germany to do my master's degree. I continue my studies in Dance and Movement Therapy at SRH Hochschule in Heidelberg. It has always been my dream to combine psychology and the multidisciplinary artistic work that I have been working on for years. Right now, I live in the Netherlands and continue my career as an Art Therapist.
Creative Art Therapy (CAT) is a therapeutic technique that uses the creative and expressive elements of art, such as painting, marbling, clay, music, theatre, film, photography, dance, and movement. It uses approaches that may activate all of our senses, notably visual, auditory, and tactile. It has a very strong scientific background and was established on the idea that the visual imagination and creative force have integrative and therapeutic potential.
With its inclusive, constructive, supporting, self-exploratory, and collaborative nature, creative art therapy opens its doors to individuals of all ages and experiences and helps us find new ways out of times when we are experiencing complicated, intense, often hard, and challenging emotions. With its non-compulsive and playful nature, it helps us develop self-awareness and confidence while also enhancing our subjective well-being in terms of cognitive, emotional, physical, developmental, neurological, behavioral, and spiritual aspects.