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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.

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.

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.

Since I qualified as a dance movement psychotherapist in 2015, I clinically worked in primary schools, special needs schools, a pupil referral unit, prison, NHS mental health hospitals and charities in the United Kingdom and Japan. I facilitated movement-based group psychotherapy groups for teens with neurodiverse backgrounds and psychotic episodes at an NHS psychiatric hospital.

In Japan, I facilitated a dance movement psychotherapy group for women who were socially isolated for many years. I also worked at a psychiatric hospital for older people (60+) who were socially institutionalised for a long time. I learnt to become culturally-informed as a practitioner.

After I moved to South Australia in 2020, I worked mainly with NDIS participants at a clinic for 3 years. Currently, I am in private practice, seeing children, young people and adults. I specialise in preverbal trauma, complex trauma, attachment issues, neurological conditions, eating disorders and neurodiverse populations. I am an approved service provider for Victims of Crime (ACT Human Rights Commission), supporting people affected by acute and chronic traumas. I am theoretically grounded in psychodynamic psychotherapy including self-psychology and group psychotherapy.I am a certified clinical supervisor (PACFA/DTAA) and somatic body mapping practitioner. 

If you're feeling stuck, if traditional talk therapies are not helping, why not try something completely different. I'm here to listen, and to provide a safe space where you can move, talk, dance, and begin to create the change you want in your life. Contact me for a free 15-minute conversation.

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

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.

As a DMT educator I offer restorative clinical supervision to individuals and groups providing the following:

• Mentoring and collaborative discussion for shared learning and problem-solving, experimentation and movement delivery
• Honest, supportive feedback helping refine therapeutic skills and ethical practice
• Practical skills required to practice as a DMT while address personal issues of transference and countertransference
• Creative applications of theory into practice

My educational and supervisory support nurtures both personal and professional growth, empowering supervisees to become confident, reflective, and dynamic clinicians.