EDUCATION:
1975 – 1986 Šilutė First Secondary School. Reinforced art class from 1 to 11 grades.
1986 – 1991 Šiauliai K.Preikšas Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Arts.
2007 – 2008 I studied costume design at the Vilnius Academy of Arts according to an individually designed program.
2013 – 2015 Personal Freedom Training, 6 parts with Tarika Glubin, Master of Psychology (USA).
2017 Primal, primary therapy – working with childhood conditioning. Premarta and Svarup (Italy).
2018 – 2019 I studied with Prof. L.Lebedev at the Moscow “Capital Institute of Professional Education”. I have obtained the qualification “Art therapy methods in the fields of psychological counseling, social and pedagogical work and healthcare”, 164 hours.
2019 – 2022. Joint study program of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) and the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA). Master of Art Therapy.
- Completed suicide prevention skills training SafeTALK and suicide intervention skills training ASIST.
2020 10 01 Lithuanian Psychiatric Association scientific practical conference “Management of complex cases in psychiatry”.
2020 10 08 Lithuanian Psychiatric Association scientific practical conference “Psychosocial rehabilitation in psychiatry. A multidisciplinary approach to the team”.
2021 04 08 International conference “ART THERAPY AND PERSONAL HEALTH 2021” organized by the LSMU/VDA Study Program “Art Therapy” Committee.
2022 05 31 – 06 03 EUR0PEAN ACADEMY ON YOUTH WORK (EAYW) conference in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.
2022 Project “Dare2care”: development of non-violent relationships between girls and boys. Training “Future Leaders Course”.
2023 Gestalt series of four seminars with Peter Philippson.
2018 Ebru course. Professional level.
2015 – 2016 Shibori art courses at the Vilnius Japanese Culture House.
2008 Japanese painting courses at the Japanese Culture House.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
2022 – until now, art therapist at Vilnius private primary school “Apvalaus kvadrato mokykla”.
2021 06 – Until now, youth worker at Vilnius open youth center MES open youth space “Kimaras”, art therapist. I lead two continuous art therapy groups every week. One for young people aged 14 – 17, the other for young people aged 19 – 29.
2021 01 – 2022 01, art therapist at Vilnius Care Association for People with Intellectual Disabilities “Viltis”.
2021 09 – 2022 01, art therapist at Vilnius Verkiai School – Multifunctional Center under the NVŠ program.
Since 2018, at the initiative of the Trakai Region Culture and Crafts Association, I have been leading art therapy sessions for organizations and students of various ages, training for educators and social workers. employees how to apply art therapy methods to school-age children. Also, for this association, I conduct the following educations: shibori – Japanese painting, history and decoration of Lithuanian chests, drawing the tree of life, art education on the ecological theme “green world”.
I conduct individual art therapy sessions for children and adults.
I conduct art therapy groups for women.
1991 – 1996 I taught art history at the Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute.
READ PRESENTATIONS:
2023 03 31 All-Ukrainian non-profit organization “Art Therapy Association”, Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the National, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, First Aid of the Soul, International Association for Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (IACAET) organized conference XX INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE SPACE OF ART THERAPY: the art of restoration mental health in wartime. Presentation topic: “Adaptation”.
2022 05 20 International conference “ART THERAPY AND PERSONAL HEALTH 2022” organized by the LSMU/VDA Study Program “Art Therapy” Committee. Presentation “Change in self-awareness of codependent women in the process of art therapy” was read.
SOCIAL, NON-MONEY-REWARDED ACTIVITIES:
2022 06 – 12 In Vilnius, VMU, in the Ukrainian Center, I led an art therapy group for war refugee women.
2019 – 2020. I led art therapy classes for children with autism spectrum disorder at Vilnius King Mindaugas School.
2014 – 2016. I created and organized an art program / classes at the summer camps of the Aikido Aikikai Association “Baltas kalnas”. These were three original, joint sports and art camps.
- Participation in the collective exhibition of paintings “Here and Now” at Kaunas Clinics, LSMU Educational Laboratory Building.
- Interdisciplinary art project “Imagination”. I participated in a joint project of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA), which unites students from four Lithuanian higher education institutions from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and Vilnius University.
- I organized a Shibori exhibition of creative Lentvaris women at the Lentvaris Culture Palace and the Japanese Culture House in Vilnius.
FAMILY:
Husband Erlandas, two sons.
