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Christina Houghton
Country
Services offered:
In Person, Online
Services for
Aged Care, Chronic Pain Illness, Mental Health, Trauma Recovery, Wellbeing, Physical disability, Neurodiversity
Working with
Adults, Children, Older Adults, Individuals, Groups
DMT Qualifications
Diploma Dance Movement Therapy
Other Qualifications
Masters in Creative and Performing Arts
★ DMT Experience
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 dance therapist she has been working with older populations with dementia and aged related disabilities as well as adults and children with disabilites. Christina is working for DTNZ: dance and arts therapy groups as well as DMT outreach for schools. She has just launched her private practice for individual and group therapy in west Auckland and online focusing on mental health issues, stress and anxiety.
Description

After working in the performing arts for many years Christina discovered Dance Movement Therapy as a way to further connect with herself and others in a way that is powerful and useful for healing. She earned her diploma around the time she began to experience symptoms of anxiety and sleep disruption connected to perimenopause this encouraged a new period of reflection and body work as a way to understand this transitional time and heal emotional trauma that emerged. DMT has provided an important creative exploration of self and a deep understanding of body and experiences in life through a reflective creative practice. Somatic dance and art making as an ecological practice influences Christina's dance therapy practice and she encourages a connection to self, body and environment nature as a way for people to heal themselves.

Company/Organisation
Dance Move Be Well

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