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Mia Janković Shentser is one of the founders and President the of the Croatian Art Therapy Association HART.  She holds an MA in sculpture and art education at Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, 2001 (MAEd).  She also specialized Art Therapy as a part of the specialistic postmaster studies (Creative Arts Therapies) at the University of J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek, 2018. She is an artist, art educator, art therapist, supervisor, and lecturer in the Art Therapy Program of Osijek Academy of Art and Culture. 

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She completed her education as a supervisor at the Institute for Group Analysis in Zagreb; Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory with Steven Porges (6 CE); Polyvagal Informed Therapy Master Class with Steven Porges and Deb Dana (5 CE); the Sensorimotor psychotherapy approach to treating PTSD with Pat Ogden, NICABM (7 CE); the Neurobiology of Attachment, NICABM (3 CE). She studies the art therapeutic approach to trauma treatment, the Instinctual Trauma Response (11.5 CE); Collective Trauma Healing in expressive art therapies (15 CE); completed the Advanced Master Class in Treatment of Trauma, NICABM (12CE); Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing Trauma Master Class  (8.25CE); Research and Statistics by Capetown University (Coursera); Resilience in Crisis (University Ben Gurion, Israel); Fundamentals of Neuroscience (HardvardX) and Human Neuroanatomy (University of Michigan). 

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She works with persons willing to grow, striving to function better in any area of their lives.  She has experience in working with persons suffering from trauma, eating disorders, and mental illness, with Holocaust survivors, the elderly, persons on the autistic spectrum,  and a wide population of not previously diagnosed persons.

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Her therapeutic direction is integrative with a humanistic, client-oriented approach, trauma-informed in ITR, Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor, and Polyvagal practice, with a deep understanding of mind and body balance. 

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Her articles and research in the area of art therapy have been published in Artos, a journal for science and art; Socijalne teme, the journal for social sciences; and Transfer, the journal for art therapy.  She is the editor of the Creative Therapies rubric of Artos, the journal for science and culture of Osijek Academy of Art and Culture, and editor-in-chief of the Croatian art therapy journal Transfer.

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She presented on art therapy at George Washington University, Art Therapy program, Washington, D.C., at the 49th AATA Conference in Miami; 9th KoHOM Conference "All the colors of stress" in Šibenik, Croatia; CEPAMET Congress: "Depression in the Century of Mind" in Zagreb, Croatia; Ukraine XX International Interdisciplinary Scientific and Practical Conference: The art of restoration of mental health in wartime, online; EFAT "Growing together" conference in Riga, Latvia.

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Memberships: 

Croatian Art Therapy Association (HART)

European Federation of Art Therapy (EFAT)

Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU)

Croatian Freelance Artists Association (HZSU)