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Dance Movement Exploration (DME) is the framework created and used by Alberto. It is anchored within DMT, Physical Activity, and Psychosocial Theories. DME is the search for the inner self leading to a better understanding of one’s emotions and behaviours and an approach in Discovering Meanings in Existence (through de-stressing movement experiences). Integrated strategies are person-centered approach, social development approach (capabilities and inclusion), and psychosocial intervention tool to the members of the community (elderly, women, youth, indigenous, PWD, and marginalised) to link and address issues (trauma cause by shocks). DME is a tool used in recognizing the individual capabilities for healing and empowerment, and as a tool for prevention/intervention in furthering psychosocial well-being towards social change.

Experience: adults and children with disabilities, including CP and head injury, autism.Alice encourages older adults and people with dementia to stay healthy longer through dance and through her improvisation group brings people of all ages back to dance for its multidimensional benefits.

Amanda’s special areas in DMT include extensive work within the prison service including forensic and mental health patients. Other areas include children and adults who experience mental health difficulties, forensic patients, people with physical and intellectual disability, parent/child, eating disorders, emotional/behaviour regulation, special educational needs. She offers group and individual therapy, group presentations, and workshops.

Angela has worked with children and adults with Down Syndrome, autism, the blind and adults with dementia in aged care. Angela offers online movement explorations online for women. Privately, Angela offers dance movement therapy to children and adults who have experienced trauma and abuse and to adults working through life issues. Angela is also a coordinator and educator in the IDTIA Clinical Training in DMT, co-facilitates the Thursday Conversations for IDTIA and currently, is the IDTIA convenor.

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

Anne graduated from physiotherapy studies in 2010, but movement analysis and interpretation began prior to this with Laban theory studies and Bartinieff fundamentals practice at the London Contemporary Dance School, in 1999.

There is power in joyful movement to enhance our expression, our experiences, and our healing capabilities. With roots planted firmly in Laban theory and total body connectivity, her practice and therapy supports honest sensory awareness, regulation and resilience. She has experience managing clients with ADHD, Autism, chronic pain and PTSD and will gladly support individuals or groups in person or online.

Ann is a professional dance movement therapist in Auckland, New Zealand and a Clinical DMT Supervisor. Ann's work involves creative thinking and driving personal growth through evidence-based practices. Approaching clinical supervision with a background in both Performance Art and Psychology, Ann offers a uniquely integrative, embodied, and reflective lens. Ann adopts a reflective and experiential supervision style, where supervision becomes a co-creative, embodied, and psychologically informed space.

Hi, I’m Audrey!

I’m a Dance Movement Therapist and an Early Childhood lead educator based in Brisbane, Australia. I combine somatics and dance movement therapy to help children and adults build confidence, body awareness, balance, and emotional wellbeing through movement.

Before becoming a therapist, I performed professionally as a ballet guest artist with Philippine Ballet Theatre and as a company member of UP Dance Company. I also taught dance to children and adults at Ballet Philippines Dance School.

My DMT experiences were:

* Adults with terminal illness facing psychological, physical and emotional issues

* Clients with Neurodiversity

* Children as clients building confidence, body awareness and balance

My lifelong passion for dance inspires me to help people heal, connect, and grow through movement.

I offer a free 15-minute chat to explore how I can support you in creating positive change in your life.

Weber is aSenior 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 King is a Counsellor and Dance/Movement Therapist with over 15 years of experience supporting children, teenagers, adults and families, including those with diverse abilities and complex needs. With a background in the performing arts, she brings a creative, embodied approach to therapy, integrating counselling, dance/movement therapy, trauma-responsive care, neuroaffirmative practices and positive behaviour support.

Through her Sydney-based practice, Hearts In Motion, Cecilia works with individuals, families and schools, offering therapy, professional development and tailored programs that promote self-expression, inclusion and emotional wellbeing across home, school and community settings.

Chia-Yu is a lifelong mover with over nine years of ballet training and two years of teaching Balletes. Her journey into dance therapy began through a deep curiosity about the connection between body and mind, and for the past three years, she has been dedicated to exploring this relationship through movement and continued study in dance therapy.

She feels deeply honored to accompany individuals and groups, whether parents and children, postpartum mothers, adults navigating emotional challenges, or older adults, in discovering their inner worlds through dance. Chia-Yu believes that by meeting the body in everyday life, we begin to explore life itself. For her, using movement to connect with ourselves and the universe, while caring for both others and ourselves, is not just meaningful—it’s magical.

Area of interest: young adults with Autism and Aspergers, Intellectual disability, and Eating Disorders.
Current groups running: teenagers and young adult with Autism, and groups with Cerebral Palsy.

"The body says what words cannot." - Martha Graham.
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and them with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away." - George Eliot.

If you are looking for a creative, expressive approach for journeying through life, embracing your authentic self or just want to have fun being in your body please contact me.
New groups are currently being developed.

I embrace a holistic, person-centered approach, drawing on creative arts, psychology, mindfulness, cross-cultural understanding, and principles from Laban and Chacian approaches. I trust that within each of us lies an inner wisdom that, when expressed in a safe and supportive space, can be deeply therapeutic and restorative. Over the past few years, I have supported people in mental health services, while nurturing dance and movement as pathways for growth, restoration, and prevention.

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.

All souls welcome.  Extensive experience working in the health field and developing as a holistic practitioner who can support individuals on their journey's with physical and psychological pain,  the processing of trauma with a focus on wellness and recovery to enable growth and fulfillment.

Eri was qualified as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist in 2012. Across 3 countries; England, Japan and Australia, she has so far worked with older adults with dementia, children and adults with learning difficulties, people with mental health conditions and those who seek psychological support for betterment of their general wellbeing - both in group and individual settings.
Eri has also facilitated workshops and classes for diverse communities, utilising Dance Movement Therapy approaches.
Eri also works as a performer and has co-created performance projects with children and adults with learning difficulties.

In 2021 Eri was certified as a facilitator for The BodyMind Approach® to work with people with Medically Unexplained Symptoms.
She also obtained a certificate in individual & group Supervision in 2023.

Drawing the individual’s attention to Body-mind connection, Eri works psychodynamically, relating to people where they are, bringing authenticity and joy into the moment.

Eri has been living in beautiful lutruwita/Tasmania since 2019.

I am a registered Dance Movement Therapist working in Sydney. I am passionate about sharing the joy and healing power of movement and self-expression. My approach as a therapist is client-centred, gentle, collaborative and non-judgmental. I aim to support you in the navigation of challenging life issues, towards resolution, healing and peace.
"I honour the place within you
Where the entire universe resides" - Ghandi

Janina is passionate about helping people to re-connect with their own body and emotions, and through this restore their innate vitality. Drawing on dance therapy and yoga, Janina offers a caring and non-judgemental space for embodied and creative self-exploration. She offers 1:1 and group sessions, face-to-face or online, and works with people with varied movement abilities. In addition to this, Janina co-developed and manages the program Rhythm is Life at the non-for-profit Heartdancers. This program is aimed at transforming the lives of older people through dance, music, and art. As someone who has had cancer and experienced the emotional and physical stress that comes with it, Janina also has a strong interest in working with women affected by this illness. She believes that dance and yoga can be very effective in helping women affected by cancer feel calmer, re-gain confidence in their own body, and feel more energised and uplifted.

Jenny has offered group and individual dance therapy to adults and young adults with disabilities including Down syndrome, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, autism spectrum, depression, and more, and yoga to young women with mild schizophrenia. She regularly offers yoga, therapeutic dance, and community dance to neuro-typical kids and adults. She has experience guiding a therapeutic drum group, and enjoys integrating rhythm activities into her group DMT sessions. Jenny loves to support clients in a journey of self-discovery to facilitate pathways toward greater ease, flow, and joy and weaves her knowledge of yoga, mindfulness, and rhythm into her therapy practice. She has a personal interest in the use of gentle mobilisation and breath integration for healing chronic pain and anxiety.

The American Indian Hopi Tribe have a saying;

“To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak” 
This for me, is the essence of Dance Movement Therapy. We express emotions when we move. We communicate and we relate. Within our bodies and tissues we hold our memories and experiences, and movement is the language through which I, as a Dance Movement Therapist, can help a person to discover them, heal them, move them or develop them. Movement is life! It is primal, instinctual. It is our first form of communication; our first language. Before we speak, we move, and we move with others to form relationships. With careful attunement to the movement of a person seeking assistance through therapy I can help them to make sense of their movement and explore meaning, emotion and remedy if necessary. 

I adopt a reflective approach that integrates both embodied and verbal inquiry to explore and understand the client’s lived experience. Through embodied inquiry, I engage elements such as movement, breath, sound, and witnessing to access and deepen awareness of the client's internal state.

My practice is grounded in a multifaceted framework, primarily informed by Polyvagal-informed Dance Movement Therapy (DMT), as well as Humanistic and Existential theories. Polyvagal-informed DMT offers a compassionate, physiology-based perspective that recognizes the shared human experience at the core of our nervous system responses.

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.

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.

Mary Rose is a Jungian Analyst and Dance Movement Therapist. She has a Private Practice working with adults for both therapy and personal and professional development.

Prior to training as a Dance Movement Therapist, Joey worked as an Early Intervention Teacher with children with physical and developmental needs, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cerebral Palsy, and Down syndrome in Singapore.

Her passion for dance and helping individuals with special needs led her to attaining her diploma as a Dance Movement Therapist by working with adults with physical and developmental disabilities online in New Zealand, and children with special needs in an integrated preschool in the United States. Her experience working with clients from different countries and cultures shows her level of adaptability to adjust sessions accordingly to clients’ needs.

Megan loves supporting people of all ages with a warm, gentle and joyful approach!

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.

Step into a non-judgemental space where all movement is welcome. I guide individuals of all abilities through embodied therapy and yoga supporting Self expression, release and deep exploration of what it means to feel at home within yourself.
Contact me for a free 15 min consult.

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.

Dr Sally Denning is a trained DMT, (PhD, Masters, Grad Dip & Grad Cert in Dance Therapy) and qualified clinical supervisor who adopts a relationship and client centred approach to her work. In supervision Sally holds clinical supervision registration with DTAA, PACFA, APTA and APPTA 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
DTAA and PACFA Clinical 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.

Works as a psychiatric social worker and psychotherapist with children and adolescents in a community mental health setting and private practice. Special areas of interests include – depression and anxiety issues, body image problems and eating disorders trauma and abuse, mother/infant dyads – postnatal depression and attachment issues.

Clinical practice: I employ Humanistic and Person-centred and developmental approaches. I integrated DMT principles of mind-body-feeling connection, Laban movement analysis and Chase techniques into my practices. I base on Yalom’s group therapy in dance therapy group work. I focus in the creativity of movement and dance. I integrate family therapy and neuroscience concepts in my practices. I apply Psychanalytic theory and attachment theory to conceptualise the case.

Supervision: The aim is to help the supervisees to reflect and gain inspiration from the clinical practices. I employ verbal as well as movement-based reflective approach facilitating my supervisee to reflect upon the DMT practices.

I approach my practice and supervision alike from a place of embodied curiosity, where intellectualized and kinaesthetic modes of knowing are valued equally. This approach utilises open, exploratory, non-linear pathways to notice what is unique within a therapeutic encounter. Influences in the process include embracing ambiguity and uncertainty, and exploring multiple interpretations of, and possibilities for, what is encountered.

Theresa studied Dance Therapy at New York University with Marica Leventhal and received her B.F.A. in Performing Arts Dance at the same university. After graduating she became a stage manager for the European tour of ‘Spiderwoman’. Theresa came to Australia in 1981 where she became involved with Dance Therapy. She has worked in a variety of settings from disabilities to mainstream, as a lecturer, tutor and facilitator in using dance and movement as the key element in promoting creativity, communications and the importance of movement. For the last 20 years Theresa was a PD/H/PE teacher using the principles of dance therapy to everyday sports and exercise. During this time, she has presented papers at Indigenous dance conferences, International Health Conferences addressing the importance for dance in people’s lives and just recently presented at the International Childhood Foundation conference in Melbourne. Her main interest is the use of dance and movement as ‘preventative medicine’.

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.