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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

Authentic Movement with my individual psychotherapy clients, Dance Movement Therapy with pre-school students – some with special needs (ages 2 – 6),Chace Circle – Adolescent Refuges

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 a BA in Dance Movement Therapy in The Netherlands, Maud started her journey from working as a dance teacher to starting her own practice and offering DMT for different populations. Maud 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. After several years of working for DTNZ to gain experience in working with adults with disabilities, neurodiverse children and other populations, Maud is currently Course Manager for the Dance Therapy Training Aotearoa (DTTA) and facilitates individual sessions for women recovering from sexual harm.

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.

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

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

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.