a.r.t.s.
Dig Deep and Reach High with Creative Exploration
Mission and VISION
MISSION
A.R.T.S strives to build lasting healing and resiliency in community members struggling with PTSD, grief, or identity issues by using art and creative expression to find a way forward.
VISION
A.R.T.S promotes and facilitates creative engagement to ignite healing opportunities and propel a path forward for people who are feeling lost, disconnected or frozen.
Alanna Burke- Sindlinger
Ascending Roots Therapy Studio, Owner
Art Therapist, ATR-BC, LPAT, LPCC
Alanna Burke-Sindlinger has always explored, processed, and understood her inner and outer world through creative expression and reflection. She is an artist first, and decided to become an art therapist early in her life, while still in high school. Alanna studied Art and Psychology at Bowling Green State University. She utilized every opportunity to use art as therapy, expressing emotion and exploring deeply the internal constructs of herself as well as the collective.
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Alanna received her Master’s degree in Art Therapy and Counseling from Southwestern College in 2015. She obtained extensive experience working with addiction and trauma working in residential treatment, where she managed an art studio, facilitated groups, and worked with individual clients. After working in residential treatment, Alanna worked in community mental health which provided her with a working knowledge and understanding of systemic challenges and barriers that many people face including homelessness, severe mental illness, extreme poverty, active addiction, and cultural influences. Alanna then worked in a group practice before launching her private practice, Ascending Roots Therapy Studio, LLC in 2023.
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Alanna utilizes a variety of approaches in her art therapy practice. At the foundation, she stands on the work of Carl Jung (Depth/Analytical Psychology and Carl Rodgers (Person Centered/Humanistic Psychology), following the lead of her clients, as well as allowing the art and created images to guide the process. Alanna places more emphasis on the process than the end product in art therapy, and places the engagement of the creative process as the most integral part of the work. She believes that once the creative process is engaged and accessed, the work can really take root.
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On a personal note,
​Alanna currently lives in rural Ohio with her spouse, son, and two dogs. She loves long walks in nature, cooking tasty food, and making art. Her favorite mediums to use are watercolor, chalk pastel, and pen. Other mediums she enjoys playing with are clay, wood burning, and fiber arts. In addition, Alanna is a poet with several published poems and a joy for spoken word.
