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Anne is an experienced, skilled, clinical arts and dance/movement therapist. I work with an integrative person centered, attachment and internal family systems approaches. With a 25 year background in mental health nursing and counselling and over 10 years years providing integrative arts and dance/movement therapy. Teaching in tertiary sector in Arts therapies and Dance Movement Therapy and in Private Practice with children, youth and adult mental health and trauma (ACC registered) and I also work with people with disabilities. I provide clinical supervision and Authentic Movement online courses.
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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.
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Auckland (New Zealand); Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
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Online
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Neurological Impairment, Social Support, Trauma Recovery, Wellbeing, Neurodiversity
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Adults, Children, Families, Older Adults, Individuals
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Ann is a professional dance movement therapist in Auckland, New Zealand. With two masters in Fine Art and Psychology, Ann's work involves creative thinking and driving personal growth through evidence-based practices.
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Barbara did her main dance movement therapy training in Munich Germany at CITA in Integral Dance, Expression Therapy and Authentic Movement in 1993 and later in Auckland New Zealand at DTNZ in 2015. She studied and experienced working with all ages and abilities in different settings, including childcare, schools, health centres and nursing homes. Alongside her teacher Wilfried Guertler ( CITA) she built up a training school in Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary to introduce and teach the positive effects of dance movement therapy. Before she came to New Zealand she taught and studied in India, USA, and Europe. Barbara works mainly in high schools where she set up group work in creative arts therapy using dance, movement, storytelling, arts and music for students with learn difficulties, intellectual,physical and mental disabilities. She offers workshops to different organisations to learn how to integrate dance movement therapy in their everyday work.
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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
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Bex comes with over 12 years of experience working in the disability sector. She has extensive experience working with people of all abilities including complex needs. She has worked with Children, Teens and Adults, in both group and individual settings. Her key populations are Teens and Adults, with a preference for group work in either a face to face setting or online. Growing up in New Zealand she has a rich respect for indigenous culture, which she endeavours to bring into her practice and teaching, while mindfully navigating her role as Tangata Tiriti.
Bex operates from a Social Model of health, with a critical perspective that recognises intersectionality and social systems as factors to be aware of when working with groups of people. Bex has experience working with mixed ability groups and utilises movement, art and music in groups, as carrier activities to support connection, relationship, social, emotional and life skills. A key consideration of her work is always ‘how can I make this accessible and meaningful to everyone present.’ Her current research thesis endeavour involves compassion. Her special interest areas are ADHD, intersections between mental health & disability and Dance Movement Therapy adaptions for wheelchair users. Her practice is influenced by her background in circus and performance arts. She is one of the trainers on the DMT Diploma course through Dance and Arts therapy NZ.
Bex operates from a Social Model of health, with a critical perspective that recognises intersectionality and social systems as factors to be aware of when working with groups of people. Bex has experience working with mixed ability groups and utilises movement, art and music in groups, as carrier activities to support connection, relationship, social, emotional and life skills. A key consideration of her work is always ‘how can I make this accessible and meaningful to everyone present.’ Her current research thesis endeavour involves compassion. Her special interest areas are ADHD, intersections between mental health & disability and Dance Movement Therapy adaptions for wheelchair users. Her practice is influenced by her background in circus and performance arts. She is one of the trainers on the DMT Diploma course through Dance and Arts therapy NZ.
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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.
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Clare is a dance movement therapist, yoga teacher, early childhood educator, forest school teacher and mother. Over the years, she has found joy and solace in movement practices and supports the premise that we can be bodyful, as well as mindful. Clare values non-verbal communication and the memories, wisdom, emotion and somatic knowing that our bodies hold and can directly and authentically express. Having studied ballet and contemporary dance at the Royal Academy of Dance in London, she continued to study Dance at Surrey University, Roehampton Institute in the UK. This love of somatic movement and communication, in particular sign language, enabled her to get involved in integrated community dance projects which lead to a career in service management, education and advocacy work within the Health and Disability sector in NZ. She has been teaching yoga and somatic movement for well over a decade and continues to seek out opportunities to study and learn from experienced therapists, teachers and movement practitioners. She is currently working as a dance movement therapist with neurotypical children and children and adolescents with ASD and ADHD in both clinical groups and individual settings. She also runs annual restorative movement retreats and offers individual sessions for adults.
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Guam
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Individuals, Groups
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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
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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.
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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.
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• Lead Therapist of ‘Dance 4 Us’ Whanganui (Weekly group session for mixed-abilities community)
• Private practice for 1-1 Dance Movement Therapy sessions
• DMT group sessions with older people, in care home settings
• Authentic Movement workshops for women
• Positive psychology, human-centered, somatic approach
Support clients with: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder & related symptoms / Depression & Anxiety / Identity exploration / Self-esteem
• Private practice for 1-1 Dance Movement Therapy sessions
• DMT group sessions with older people, in care home settings
• Authentic Movement workshops for women
• Positive psychology, human-centered, somatic approach
Support clients with: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder & related symptoms / Depression & Anxiety / Identity exploration / Self-esteem
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New Zealand/Taiwan
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Aged Care, Chronic Pain Illness, Mental Health, Social Support, Trauma Recovery, Wellbeing, Neurodiversity, Developmental disability
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Adults, Children, Older Adults, Individuals, Groups
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In general, I take reflective approach where we emphasize the on supervisee’s own reflections on personal experience and clinical practices. I invite the supervisee to set an intention for what they’d like to focus on for supervision. Collaborative and creative models are incorporated with embodied & verbal investigation and exploration of unconscious processes and therapeutic relationships. This aligns with my own clinical framework, where I integrate person-centered and psychodynamic frameworks in supervision. I am committed to provide safe, confidential, and supportive supervision where self-care, ethical and practical issues can be openly discussed. I support the students in training and practitioners to return to their SELF and resource themselves in their practice.
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I have been working with children aged 5-13 for the past 4 years in a school setting. Most of my work has been with younger children, 5-9 year olds, incorporating DMT principles and practices in large group Creative Movement Classes. These classes explore ways of moving, emotions, exposure to varied music, working cooperatively, facilitating and reinforcing areas of inquiry and learning, such as numeracy and literacy concepts and self regulation strategies. I am very interested in working with older persons and women through the stages of menopause.
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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.
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Chunyan came from China. She is a Dynamic Psychology Counsellor in China. Currently living in New Zealand, she is able to provide mental health rehabilitation and immigration adjustment services to the Chinese community in her native language. She specializes in integrating the core elements of dance therapy, psychoanalytic therapy, and talk therapy into the work of each visitor, each of whom is special. Life is not easy, but it is worth living.
Bachelor of Public Administration, Chunyan has accepted Sandplay Therapy, The core concept of psychology therapy, Dynamic Psychoanalysis for many years. She has worked at Shenzhen Zhongkang in the psychological research institute. She helped her cases recover their life. the accumulative cases time nearly 3000 hours. She led a Chinese dance movement therapy growth group in New Zealand. Dance therapy is not a dance, it is from body including micro expressions, power of the spirit of the analysis of the voice tone, more directly and deeply, at the same time of analyzing the integration and development, the growth of deep trauma healing, blocking the compulsive repeat mode of life, reshape internal representation, participants said the foot pain well for many.
Bachelor of Public Administration, Chunyan has accepted Sandplay Therapy, The core concept of psychology therapy, Dynamic Psychoanalysis for many years. She has worked at Shenzhen Zhongkang in the psychological research institute. She helped her cases recover their life. the accumulative cases time nearly 3000 hours. She led a Chinese dance movement therapy growth group in New Zealand. Dance therapy is not a dance, it is from body including micro expressions, power of the spirit of the analysis of the voice tone, more directly and deeply, at the same time of analyzing the integration and development, the growth of deep trauma healing, blocking the compulsive repeat mode of life, reshape internal representation, participants said the foot pain well for many.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Working with DMT since 2021 with children and youth with special needs.
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Verity empathetically combines her somatic training to expand wellness for individuals and in group sessions.
Areas of D.M.T. clinical experience: neurodiversity in children. Mothers and babies supporting attachment. Community based sessions for other abled adults with carers for fun and social connection. Teens experiencing depression and anxiety in schools. Children in state care. Children with caregivers in palliative care. Supporting wellness in neurotypical adults. Mentoring and now supervision for associate and provisional members of the DTAA online and in person. Approaches: Person centred, humanistic, positive psychology. Inspired by what drives the human spirit through adversity and encourages the potential to playfully journey within, connect with self, others and the world in which we choose to inhabit.
Areas of D.M.T. clinical experience: neurodiversity in children. Mothers and babies supporting attachment. Community based sessions for other abled adults with carers for fun and social connection. Teens experiencing depression and anxiety in schools. Children in state care. Children with caregivers in palliative care. Supporting wellness in neurotypical adults. Mentoring and now supervision for associate and provisional members of the DTAA online and in person. Approaches: Person centred, humanistic, positive psychology. Inspired by what drives the human spirit through adversity and encourages the potential to playfully journey within, connect with self, others and the world in which we choose to inhabit.