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Aiko’s expertise lies in facilitating dance movement therapy sessions for individuals and groups, focusing on NDIS participants and children with behaviour challenges. She is passionate about sharing the transformative benefits of dance movement therapy with people from all walks of life. Aiko’s diverse skill set includes dance, yoga and pilates, as well as providing support for individuals with disabilities. She has experience supporting people of all ages, from kids to the elderly.

is a professionally registered Dance Movement Therapist and Somatic Movement Educator with over 25 years of experience in supporting a wide range of people to find greater safety, wisdom and vitality in their bodies.

Are you seeking an embodied approach to finding clarity, emotional balance, and a deeper sense of wholeness?

My practice is informed by expressive, somatic, dance movement, and gestalt therapy approaches, which emphasize the mind-body connection, presence in the moment, and relational awareness to foster authentic expression, self-awareness and healing.

I specialise in supporting adult women as they navigate life’s challenges. I have experience working with women with faith backgrounds, women in business, mothers, home educators and students.

If you’re ready to explore a new way of getting to know yourself more deeply and find meaningful change, I’d love to hear from you. Contact me today to see how we can work together.

My passion is to create a difference in people’s lives through movement therapy connecting mind, body and spirit to bring a new awareness and healing that medicine and counselling alone fail to do. I want to combine all my modalities to truly help people and change the world one person, one group at a time. I enjoy working with all populations, however in my future work I aim to work with adolescents who suffer with trust, safety, insecurities, self-doubt, lack of confidence, bullying etc, enabling them to step into their own authenticity and be the best they can be. I am also very interested in special needs and through my practical experience have come to realise how empowering, beneficial and needed movement therapy is for this population. As well as this I am creating programs to work with clients, both adults and children who have suffered trauma.

Andrea is working both in Australia and overseas with various populations, including people with a range of physical disabilities and NCD’s, acquired brain injuries, people living with dementia (and their carers), Parkinson’s disease, diabetes and strokes. She has expertise in dance and movement therapy with the elderly and has a particular interest in fostering dance and movement therapy practice in age care facilities and respite centers. She has also worked with adults in psychiatric settings. Currently Andrea is offering regular authentic movement sessions with adults, one to one dance and movement therapy sessions, and facilitates ongoing creative dance and improvisation classes for the elderly. Andrea is continuously broadening her dance therapy practice attending professional development workshops in somatic movement practice, and through participation in integrative dance workshops and projects in Europe.

Anjali Sengupta is a trauma informed dance movement therapist, transpersonal arts therapist, arts educator, holistic massage therapist, choreographer and performing artist with 30 years experience of moving and working with the body across 4 continents. She supports survivors of exploitation, slavery and servitude through her work with HerSpace and has extensive experience working in a variety of different settings including primary and secondary schools, aged care, disabilities, neurodiversity, disordered eating, developmental trauma and community mental health.

With a passion for utilising the creative arts for promoting mental wellbeing, Anna loves supporting individuals of all ages to create, move & thrive!

Anneriek Favelle is specialised in working with women going through midlife. We helps empower women through expressive movement and the exploration of symbolism and archetypes. Her mission is not only to help women discover their innate power but also to inspire them to harness this power for the greater good of all.

Annie is a Dance Movement Therapist and registered Arts Therapist. With a passion for working with children in various contexts over the past 15 plus years, Annie provides DMT for groups and individual clients, in both clinical and community contexts, as well as within schools. Her clinical experience spans a diverse range of populations including neurodiverse children, teens, and adults; children with high and complex needs; anxiety; autism; and older adults with dementia. She adopts a client-centered, relational, and trauma-informed approach, nestled in developmental psychology and polyvagal theory. Fundamentally, Annie seeks to promote a non-judgmental and compassionate space for clients to explore, facilitating support through embodiment, movement, breath, creative expression, presence, and play.

Ash has experience working with clients with chronic pain and the correlation between physical and emotional pain in the body. She works from a pain science and polyvagal informed perspective. She has supported clients healing from past emotional traumatic experiences and helped them navigate how these experiences move through their bodies. Ash has worked in the NDIS space and has a current working with children check. She also has experience working with elite dance students for injury rehabilitation and recovery from chronic pain. Her interests lie in helping people connect with their bodies through breath and movement, teaching them to listen to and understand the physiological sensations and underlying symptoms and then giving them strategies that empower them to overcome pain, fear and difficulty moving so that they can improve their capacity first in their bodies so that it radiates into other aspects of their lives.

Weber is Deputy Head of Department, Senior Lecturer in Dance Studies, and Programme Director for the Masters in Dance Movement Therapy degree at the University of Auckland. She has worked with clients from 8 months to 70 years old, with a focus on rangatahi and adults most recently. Her therapeutic practice experience includes clients with neurodiversities, anxiety, depression, addiction/substance abuse issues, trauma, and LGBTQIA+ concerns. Her practice is co-creative with clients, stemming from an emphasis on person-centered frameworks, but also drawing on cognitive behavioural, psychoeducational, and mindfulness/bodyfulness, and trauma-informed approaches

For the past 20 years, I’ve traveled the world, mesmerizing audiences with my performances while delving deep into the realm of somatic therapy. My journey commenced within the ecstatic dance community, where I not only danced but also led workshops, guiding individuals to explore movement beyond its physical confines. Under the guidance of Tracy Nicholson, a prominent figure in somatic therapy, and with the mentorship of Jane Refshauge, I refined my skills and therapeutic approach. Drawing from my extensive background in performance arts and keen observation of movement, I’ve developed a nuanced understanding of the body-mind connection. This perspective enables me to facilitate profound shifts in my clients, helping them unearth deep-seated blocks and rediscover bodily freedom.

Cecilia specialises working with children, adolescents, adults and families impacted by disabilities and trauma in the disability sector. She currently works as a counsellor, dance movement therapist, AutPlay Therapy provider and Behaviour Support Practitioner. Cecilia has joined force with a music therapist and an art therapist in establishing M.A.D Therapy in 2020 and became a registered NDIS provider. Cecilia also offers her service through Whole Family Health at St Mary’s Sydney where she collaborates with a multidisciplinary team in supporting NDIS participants. Cecilia is trained in Somatic Trauma Therapy under the guidance of Babette Rothschild (author of “The Body Remembers”). She offers clinical individual and group supervision using the RISE-UP model. Her experience includes working with people with Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, Down’s Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Prader-Willi Syndrome, Williams Syndrome, Schizophrenia, Complex PTSD and Severe Anxiety Disorder.

Christina has over 20 years experience in somatic dance, improvisation, choreography, research, teaching and performance in both an academic environment and community context. As a provisional professional dance therapist she has been working with older populations with dementia and aged related disabilities as well as adults and children with disabilites in commmunity drop in groups. Somatic dance and art making as an ecological practice influences her dance therapy practice and she encourages a connection to self, body and environment nature as a way for people to heal themselves. Christina is working for DTNZ assisting drop in dance and arts therapy groups as well as being a Star Jam tutor for teenagers with disabilities.

Clare has worked with diverse populations and needs including children, at risk young people, adults and the elderly. She is passionate about the power of movement and music when working with people living with dementia; people who identify as being disabled and neuro-diverse individuals. Clare leads a weekly reflective movement space in Brisbane called Self in Motion.

I use a variety of options in supervision. Case reporting is one. I use Physical Storytelling, Authentic Movement as well as a form called Intervision. In group supervision I encourage supervisees to really think through there bodies while moving and I ground this through the lenses of Laban, Bartenieff and Kestenberg movement systems. Improvisation strongly informs my supervision approach supported by a framework that synthesizes humanistic, developmental, and metaphoric (aesthetic) understanding.

After receiving her qualification from the ‘International Yoga Teacher Association’ in 2006, Doreen began her movement career teaching yoga and working with people of different ages and many walks of life. Later she deepened her knowledge as a student of Donna Farhi’s Advanced Teacher Training in 2012. Subsequently, the study of Dance Movement Therapy became a natural extension. In the DMT training, she found a deeper understanding of our physical movement integrations as well as the psychology within our mental and emotional body. Since graduating from DTNZ and completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Therapy Whitecliffe 2020. Doreen’s Body – Mind work provided many opportunities for a variety of populations. Currently, Doreen is active as a DMT therapist working with children through the “Stars”, “Dance 4 Us” and “Dance 4 All” program in Christchurch (DTNZ). Additionally, she provides DMT therapy, where she utilizes Arts Therapy within individual sessions at her home studio.

Steve Harvey PhD, RPT/S, BC-DMT, RPT/S is currently doing consultations in schools and is an adjunct faculty member in the Clinical Psychology department at the University of Guam. Previously Steve worked as the Consultant Psychologist with CAMHS in New Plymouth, New Zealand. He also he worked as a Child Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Colorado, USA. Prior to becoming involved in the mental health profession, Steve was active in improvisational dramatic/dance performance and in Contact Improvisation. He and his wife Connor have developed and continue to practice Physical Storytelling. Besides being registered and licensed as a clinical and educational psychologist, Steve is a registered with the American Dance and Play Therapy Associations, and the North American Drama Therapy Association. He has been an active contributor in the integration of the expressive modalities. Steve helped pioneer the field of family play therapy and has published many chapters on this topic in major play therapy texts, as well as in publications by the American Psychological and American Psychiatric Associations. He is currently presenting and publishing arts-based research using Physical Storytelling in cross cultural contexts and is a frequent contributor to Moving On. Both he and Connor have developed and lead an ongoing project-Creative Dialogues-internationally to develop creative collaborations in response to the health crisis related to COVID 19

Dance Therapy has been a cornerstone in supporting my well-being, and I bring these lived experiences into my private practice.

My approach focuses on integrating evidence-based research and practices related to embodiment mindfulness, positive behavioral support, and person-driven strategies, particularly in mental health and individuals with disabilities. I provide sessions for those with mental health challenges (depression, anxiety, PTSD, addictions, anger management), intellectual development disabilities as well as professional supervision.

While actively contributing to the health and disability sector in Aotearoa/New Zealand, I collaborate with local schools and service providers. My most recent project explored the implementation of preference assessments within Dance Movement Therapy for individuals with Autism and related disabilities. Outside of my professional work, I enjoy music and DANCE! 🙂 Reading a good book, and spending quality time travelling with my partner.

Email: cmtherapynz@gmail.com

Director Moving Together, a community-based dance therapy program for mothers and babies in the City of Booroondara. Member of DTAA’s General committee from 2005 to 2018. As the activities coordinator at Prague House in Melbourne, Elizabeth provides arts and recreation programs with an emphasis on the therapeutic. Elizabeth is qualified and experienced in primary education, including Rudolf Steiner Education, and in teaching Yoga and meditation and is at present involved in training as a Hakomi practitioner.

All souls welcome. Draws on experience with health professionals, new mothers and babies, adults and children. Supported growth and development with trauma informed approach

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Supervision offered to trainee and professional Dance Movement Therapists working in adjunctive or primary DMT roles. Framework is psychotherapeutic (transference, counter-transference, boundaries, attachment, projective-identification) with key concepts of Dr Marcia B Leventhal (5-part session ©, Stages of Therapeutic Unfolding ©, The Quantum Healing Dance Matrix ©). Focus is on establishing a nurturing, ethical, inclusive, co-created ‘space’ for supervisees and their clients. The supervisee’s dance/movement is understood to be a means through which their clients’ unconscious communication can be accessed, reflected upon and mentalized in a way that may not be accessible in words alone. Movement/dance analysis references Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), metaphor, symbol, embodied trauma, Cameron Kinetic Sensory Studies (KSS) and the developmental life cycle. Supervisees are encouraged over time to establish their own personal integrative model of Dance Movement Therapy.

Jan is a dance movement therapist and physiotherapist. She is currently completing a Masters of Arts Therapy with a special interest in integrative dance therapy. Areas of experience include the fields of chronic illness and pain, mental health, child development and care of the elderly/dementia/palliative care. She is interested in the development of dance movement therapy through an allied health lens and is involved with several projects in partnership with the Northland DHB, Blind Foundation Northland and TBI Healthcare providing dance movement therapy in multi-disciplinary settings. She plans to continue her studies exploring the dance between arts and health and the development of the dance therapy profession within this. She provides creative movement, therapeutic dance/arts workshops and professional supervision to health professionals, community groups and health providers throughout New Zealand.

I use a reflective approach using embodied and verbal inquiry into the therapists’ experience. With embodied enquiry, I utilize the elements of movement, breath, sound and witnessing. Together we try to understand the Therapists internal experience coupled with external relational interactions to facilitate the therapists’ practice. My supervision approach is embedded in a framework that is multifaceted. The primary influences are Poly Vagal informed Dance Movement Therapy (DMT), Humanistic and Existential theories. Polyvagal-informed DMT is a humanitarian approach based on the universality of our physiology.

Katharina is interested in working with NDIS clients of all ages and abilities. She has experience working with various child populations as well as adult mental health and adult disability populations. Katharina currently works as a children’s counsellor for a large organisation using expressive modalities including music and movement. She addresses emotional, social and behavioural goals in fun and creative ways with children aged 4 to 18 years who have experienced trauma. Some of these children have been diagnosed with autism, ADHD, anxiety or depression. Katharina has also run creative and therapeutic dance and movement sessions with groups of children aged 2 to 5 years for several years. These sessions have a developmental focus and are aimed at supporting the children’s fine and gross motor skill development, as well as refining their social and cognitive skills and enhancing their emotional wellbeing. Groups have included children with a typical course of development as well as children with a developmental delay or diagnosed with ADHD or ASD. Furthermore, Katharina facilitates improvisational movement sessions for the general public based on mindfulness and authentic movement and inspired by techniques and the philosophy of contact improvisation. These sessions have an internal focus and include various mediums of reflection such as writing, drawing and verbal sharing. Katharina’s vision is to help children and adults attain a sense of wholeness, wellness and personal safety by facilitating experiences which promote their physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

Lesley has extensive experience as creative wellbeing practitioner with individuals and groups. She began her dance movement training when young in Christchurch then London. Her early experience included contemporary dance, improvisation, and Body-Mind Centering with teachers Patricia Bardi, Katya Bloom, Linda Hartley, and foundation DMT training with Helen Payne. Returning to NZ she collaborated with Amanda Levey learning the Halprin Life Art Process. An opportunity to study Dance Movement Therapy in Melbourne enabled her to both immerse herself in healing dance and formalise her dance movement therapy training. She initially applied her skills in aged care and women’s health with independent group work, then worked primarily in the public mental health field as a counsellor/social worker incorporating a body-centred, creative and integrative approach, and where possible offering DMT. In recent years she has begun her own private Dance to Life practice with a focus on supporting people with trauma and advanced her DMT skills in this area including training with Amber Gray. She’s also been based in a medical clinic as a Health Improvement Practitioner (HIP) supporting “patients” with holistic wellbeing. Her passion is developing Dance Movement Therapy as a life enhancing creative wellbeing modality. This year learning SpinPoi as a fresh movement modality that can be both a cultural and professional bridge between her HIP and Dance Movement Therapy worlds.

Maeve has a background in dance teaching with children and adults. Maeve is currently working as a dance therapist with adults with intellectual disability and in aged care and with the frail elderly with dementia in NE Victoria.

Specialist expertise: All level and abilities of physical and intellectual disabilities. All levels of mental health including schizophrenia, addiction, substance abuse, depression, eating disorders and body image. Maria is a Raqs Sharqi dancer and teacher; bringing elements of middle eastern dance into dance therapy. Maria works privately one on one and also with group in workshop and retreat settings, combining her skills in Dance Movement Therapy, Body Psychotherapy, Somatic Awareness, Authentic Movement, Continuum Movement, Sacred Dance, Art, and other life skills and experiences. She also works in Italy, Japan and Bali.

Available to have a chat if you are looking for support with/for Dementia, YOD, carers, well-being, PTSD, trauma, anxiety, stress management, work life-balance.
I also offer programs for businesses empowering HR and People Development Managers, as well as professional to enhance teams' well-being, satisfaction, engagement, and productivity.

After 4 years of study in The Netherlands Maud started her journey as a Dance Movement Therapist, from working as a dance teacher to starting her own practice and offering DMT in different populations. She has worked with neurotypical children, teens and adults; elderly with dementia & Alzheimer; adults diagnosed with a personality disorder and/or depression and women who were affected by cancer. She provides DMT in groups and individual sessions. To continue the adventure of learning about DMT she moved to New Zealand and is currently working with DTNZ to gain experience in working with adults with disabilities, children with autism and other populations.

Meagan’s experience includes adult and children’s mental health, parent & infant mental health, birth trauma, therapeutic play and dance movement therapy for early intervention, selective mutism, autism, PTSD, neurological conditions- Stroke, Parkinson’s, M.S, and children and adults affected by domestic violence and childhood trauma. Offering a warm approach and safely held space, Meagan supports her clients to foster an embodied sense of emotional regulation, cognition, self-expression, communication and harmonious ways of being in relationship.

Specialist expertise: physical, sensory and intellectual disabilities, elderly and disability support workers. Groups and 1:1 with adults and adolescents with various physical, sensory and/or a range of intellectual disabilities. People with dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Acquired Brain Injury. People with depression as a result of degenerative conditions and/or disabilities. ‘Creative movement’ with elderly people. Authentic Movement with peers. Student placements available in groups with intellectual disabilities. Meredith’s work also includes visual art as an extension of movement to build symbolic communication.

Monica is a Professional Dance Movement Therapist with a Spanish background, she has studied in Australia and overseas. She has studied, performed and taught classical and contemporary, creative dance Acro- rhythmic and other movement disciplines. Monica uses a non- verbal creative process as a psychotherapeutic approach to empower clients in both individual and group setting toward their physical, cognitive, mental, emotional, cultural and spiritual wellbeing.

Monica has DMT experience with children and adults with Disability, Physical and intellectual, children and adolescents with ADHD, APD, Autism, and Aspergers spectrum. She works in collaboration with other allied health professionals, community and council programs, educational settings, dance studios and council initiatives in benefit of the client. She has also worked with Post Cancer Survival women, Arthritis, Parkinson and MS, Residential Aged Care, Dementia and High Care inc. support to Rehabilitation programs prevention and recovery.

Monica provides a space for a therapeutic and family focused service, for parent/carer and children victims of family violence and the impact of trauma. Monica uses improvised authentic movement for a transformative and therapeutic effect to a healthy balanced life. Monica brings a pastoral counsel care approach to life. Monica has lectured as part of the DMT foundation Accredited Course of IDTIA, and supports the initiatives of The Victorian State Ballet as part of the Board.

Olivia has worked with a range of demographics including; NDIS & neurodivergent clients, adults with mental health concerns, children, teenagers & has worked with the elderly. She believes in the power of movement & thoroughly enjoys witnessing the growth in her clients. Olivia offers group & individual therapy and is currently seeing clients at the Bardon Counselling Centre & at her home clinic.

Rachel has worked as a therapist and youth/support worker, particularly within the NDIS framework, Her client-focused approach blends a unique set of skills to provide a nurturing and safe space. She collaborates with her clients to uncover the hidden stories/experiences stored in the body, reprogram the nervous system, and gently release narratives that aren’t serving us well, allowing the body to achieve balance. She has worked with acquired brain injuries, neurodiversity, intellectual disabilities, autoimmune conditions/ post op, dementia, and Alzheimer’s. Facilitated sessions in Aged care homes and private practice, Using evidence-based modalities and trauma-informed care to create safe,and supportive environments that foster holistic health. She offers both one-on-one and group sessions, she currently runs a creative movement group for women. She may even bring her therapy dog, Stella, to enhance the therapeutic environment.

Renee is a musician and experienced primary trained teacher with over ten years’ experience working in special education. She completed her Diploma in Dance Movement Therapy in 2023 and works with children, teens and adults individually, and in groups.

Sally is a trained and qualified clinical supervisor who adopts a relationship and client centred approach to her work. In supervision Sally draws upon her many years of experience as a counsellor, educator, dance-movement therapist, play therapist and movement specialist to build a safe and reflective space to explore therapeutic best practice, the supervisee’ goals and needs and responses to their work.

Clinical Dance Movement Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor
holding DTAA and PACFA Registration

Sarah is a Dance Movement Therapist and certified multilingual Early Childhood Educator who completed her studies and training in Berlin, Germany. During her 10 years of experience in a German bilingual school she worked with the integration of students coming from different countries and backgrounds including children with ASD, ADHD and neurological behaviour issues. It was here that Sarah discovered the importance of other forms of communication including body, dance and movement. After completing her Dance Therapy qualification, she has managed to combine her lifelong passion of dance and education through her Flow Dance Your Life programmes, conducting workshops and offering individual and group sessions with children, teenagers, people with special needs (i.e. autism) and women. Sarah is also working with DTNZ in Auckland specialising in group sessions focussed on children in the Autism Spectrum.

Sarah is a somatic psychotherapist and dance movement therapist working in private practice in Brisbane since 2016. Sarah combines body movement and expression with talk therapy for adults experiencing anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD and trauma. Her passion is to help women in mid-life find their sparkle again. If you would like to find out more about 1:1 psychotherapy with Sarah, head over to her website

Working with DMT since 2021 with children and youth with special needs.

The supervisory material I offer embraces the principles of the embodied, creative process with an emphasis on post structural influences. This supervision approach utilizes open, exploratory, non-lineal pathways to attune to what is unique within a therapeutic endeavour, where the therapist can clarify the known and become confident to explore what is not yet known about it. Post structural influences include embracing ambiguity and uncertainty about an event or entity, and sourcing multiple interpretations of, and possibilities for, it. These influences seek to expose what might be taken for granted within the relationship, to be able to consider it differently. Central to this material is the therapist’s intellectualized, kinetic, and kinaesthetic modes of responding to the therapeutic assemblage, where attention is directed toward their aesthetic, sense-based experiences of, and with, it. This supervision material is highly personalized and contextualized, to meet the needs of each therapist and client/s as they are situated.

Teri has been specialising in the field of intellectual and physical disabilities for over 15 years. She is currently running seven movement groups a week in this field. Her newest endeavour is teaching a women’s group called Saturday Sisters which is a mix of Open Floor Movement Practice and Creative Dance. Find out about her current offerings on her website

Framework is influenced by my experience in DMT, Somatics, Pilates, Laban Movement Analysis, Body Mind Centring & Somatic Breath Techniques as well as 35 years experience as an Educator. Approach as a Supervisor:
•Mentoring and collaborative discussion that develops opportunities for practice, reflection, experimentation and movement delivery
•All techniques will focus on supervisees’ DMT practice in the workplace with supervisees’ clients
•I will provide constructive feedback in a supportive environment
•Facilitate group Supervision, where there is opportunity for all participants to contribute and share
•Supervision sessions will adhere to timeframes, enabling supervisees ample time to present information about their clinical work as well as time for reflection
•The supervision will include learning skills required to practice as a DMT and address personal issues of transference and countertransference

Psychotherapeutic approach based on somatic psychotherapy approaches such as Hakomi and Sensorimotor psychotherapy, with an understanding of the neuroscience underpinning how people experience the world. The principles are based in mindfulness, openness, being curious and supporting the client to study their responses,beliefs, sensations and responses in their body in order to follow the body’s way to healthier ways of being. Supervision supports therapists to be able to follow and study what is happening in their clients body to help guide them through their body to a healthy outcome. This will include dance and movement processes that support this unfolding into health.

In the last 10 years, Yun Ju has been working on her psychology and counselling training while exposing herself to many dance therapy groups and workshops. Her many strengths include: in-depth self-reflection and self-other awareness, as well as her counselling knowledges and experiences in working with both children and adults population. She received training in various therapy approaches, such as Satir model,Gestalt…etc, and has been integrated dance therapy in her verbal counselling sessions, as well as bringing other therapeutic approach into the dance therapy sessions she facilitated.