Contact:
 angela@artoftransformation.ca
 www.artoftransformation.ca

Tel: 905-348-7283
Address: St Catharines, Ontario, L2R 2W4

Angela Duntsch

Art of Transformation
Expressive Arts Therapist & Expressive Arts Facilitator

I work with children, youth and adults with difficulties that include mental health, early childhood trauma, autism, and stress related issues. Also, people in helping roles, such as therapists, social workers and caretakers/parents, find sessions and workshops beneficial. They say it helps them to relax, develop new coping tools and leave sessions inspired for their own work.
I usually start with a free of charge preliminary session, and find very diverse needs regarding the frequency of meetings. Some choose to see me weekly, others once a month, or whenever needed.
I work out of my studio in St Catharines and offer workshops across the Niagara Region. They include mask making, clowning, sculpting, as well as inter-modal expressive arts, involving music-making, movement, sculpting, collage, drawing and painting.
I volunteer at the mental health wing of the local hospital and find it satisfying to see how much the clients get out of the experience. Some reconnect with their art explorations in the past, while others who never considered themselves creative are surprised to find deep relaxation and satisfaction.

Credentials:

Additional Training:Additional training:
 
Victim Services Niagara
  • Assisting Victims of Human Trafficking
 
Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute
  • Couples Therapy in Action
  • Sociodrama and Story with Children’s Groups
 
Attachment and Trauma Treatment Center for Healing
  • Healing Trauma Wounds: The Magnificent Benefits of Mindfulness Training
  • Creative Strategies for Engaging Youth
  • Trauma Integration Clinician Core Training
  • Suicide Prevention and Intervention
  • Healing the Wound of Attachment Dysregulation ~ Parenting to Heal the Hearts of Traumatized Children.
 
FASCETS
  • Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder from a Neurobehavioral perspective
 
International Association for Voice Movement Therapy
  • Re-Connecting to Our Roots: The Self Expressed
 
Teatro Dimitri
  • Mask Play
  • Theatre Improvisation
  • Clowning
 
The Theatre Resource Centre
  • Clown Through Mask Workshop
 
Regional Native Centre in Niagara-on-the-Lake and the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre
  • Sensitivity workshop
  • Sisters in Spirit
  • 13 Moon Hand drum making with Jackie Labonte and Oliver Nobosin
  • Opening Doors to Dialogue
 
Hincks-Dellcrest Centre
  • The Development of Triangular Communication between Infant, Father and Mother
  • Watch, Wait and Wonder
  • Parent Child Interaction Therapy
 
Professional Affiliations:
  • Ontario Expressive Arts Association, OEATA

Population served: Children, youth, adults and seniors

Areas of expertise & experience:
  • Creating community relations projects which foster understanding through engagement in the arts and direct contact with facilitators from diverse cultural backgrounds.
  • Offering workshops “Introduction to expressive arts for community workers” at the Niagara Regional Native Centre.
  • Teaching circus skills for community groups and families.
Languages: English and German

Arts practice:
  • Sculpting and storytelling
  • Music making and making sound visible (This includes xylophone and rhythmical instruments and depending on venue I can bring a small Chladni plate.)
  • Mask Making and enlivening the mask or/and storytelling
  • More Juggling and Less Struggling (a juggling workshop with balls, diabolos, and flower-sticks, with making juggling props as a possible add on)

Location: I am based in the Niagara Region and interested to offer courses and workshops all over Ontario and beyond, especially in rural venues.