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Alyssa Peck
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Locations of work
Moreton Bay, North Brisbane, QLD.
Services offered:
In Person, Online
Services for
Mental Health, Social Support, Trauma Recovery, Wellbeing
Working with
Adults, Couples, Families, Teens, Individuals, Groups
Profile Summary:
Are you seeking an embodied approach to finding clarity, emotional balance, and a deeper sense of wholeness?

My practice is informed by expressive, somatic, dance movement, and gestalt therapy approaches, which emphasize the mind-body connection, presence in the moment, and relational awareness to foster authentic expression, self-awareness and healing.

I specialise in supporting adult women as they navigate life’s challenges. I have experience working with women with faith backgrounds, women in business, mothers, home educators and students.

If you’re ready to explore a new way of getting to know yourself more deeply and find meaningful change, I’d love to hear from you. Contact me today to see how we can work together.
Amanda Calabro
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Services for
Aged Care
Profile Summary:
My passion is to create a difference in people’s lives through movement therapy connecting mind, body and spirit to bring a new awareness and healing that medicine and counselling alone fail to do. I want to combine all my modalities to truly help people and change the world one person, one group at a time. I enjoy working with all populations, however in my future work I aim to work with adolescents who suffer with trust, safety, insecurities, self-doubt, lack of confidence, bullying etc, enabling them to step into their own authenticity and be the best they can be. I am also very interested in special needs and through my practical experience have come to realise how empowering, beneficial and needed movement therapy is for this population. As well as this I am creating programs to work with clients, both adults and children who have suffered trauma.
Anna Payne
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Locations of work
Sunshine Coast, QLD; Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
Services offered:
In Person, Online
Services for
Aged Care, Chronic Pain Illness, Mental Health, Neurological Impairment, Social Support, Trauma Recovery, Wellbeing, Physical disability, Neurodiversity, Intellectual disability, Developmental disability, Behavioural disability
Working with
Adults, Children, Couples, Families, Older Adults, Teens, Individuals, Groups
Profile Summary:
With a passion for utilising the creative arts for promoting mental wellbeing, Anna loves supporting individuals of all ages to create, move & thrive!
Anne Wilby
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Profile Summary:
My movement analysis work began in London in 1999. A journey of contemporary dance performance work later morphed into an appreciation of the movement sciences. I am a practitioner with roots in Laban theory, total body connectivity, Pilates Method and DMT. Special interest conditions include Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Neurodivergence, and Women’s Health.
Ashleigh Berry
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Profile Summary:
Ash has experience working with clients with chronic pain and the correlation between physical and emotional pain in the body. She works from a pain science and polyvagal informed perspective. She has supported clients healing from past emotional traumatic experiences and helped them navigate how these experiences move through their bodies. Ash has worked in the NDIS space and has a current working with children check. She also has experience working with elite dance students for injury rehabilitation and recovery from chronic pain. Her interests lie in helping people connect with their bodies through breath and movement, teaching them to listen to and understand the physiological sensations and underlying symptoms and then giving them strategies that empower them to overcome pain, fear and difficulty moving so that they can improve their capacity first in their bodies so that it radiates into other aspects of their lives.
Becca Weber
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Profile Summary:
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
Brendan O’Connor
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Profile Summary:
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.
Chia Cheng Bai
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Profile Summary:
I am a full-time counseling teacher in an elementary school and a licensed counseling psychologist. My therapeutic approach integrates humanistic and postmodern beliefs, believing that each individual’s exhibited qualities and abilities are inherent strengths. I have over 10 years of experience in dance therapy and psychodrama, with approximately 500 hours of training in psychodrama.
My primary clients are children, and in both individual and group counseling sessions, I frequently address issues such as ADHD, ASD, school refusal, interpersonal difficulties, and internal conflicts, and various other issues. Since children’s issues often involve systemic influences, in addition to working in schools, I also actively provide counseling services using dance therapy and psychodrama methods to different
Christina Houghton
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Profile Summary:
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.
Hsiu-Ya Yu
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Profile Summary:
HSIU-YA has about five years experience in Counseling: using Adlerian Psychological Approach in children and the adult. The experience of playing the ballroom dance for almost 10 years lead her to join the TWNZ Dance Movement Therapy Training and finished it. Now she keeps in serving the elementary school students and residential child care institutions on children combine with Dance Movement Therapy and Adlerian Play Therapy. For approving the mental health of children, she has invested in parenting field, especially in Emotional Education. She tries to bring all of the life experiences with her as a therapist.
Janina Catalao Dionisio Murta
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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.
Jennifer Bloomfield
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Services offered:
In Person, Online
Working with
Adults, Teens
Profile Summary:
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.
Julie Crocker
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Profile Summary:
• 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
Kylie Mottl
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Profile Summary:
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.
Liu Chun-yan
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Profile Summary:
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.
Madeleine Flynn
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Profile Summary:
I am a mental health Occupational Therapist (Bachelor of O.T.) with extensive psychotherapy training. I have a Grad Dip in Somatics and Dance Movement Therapy.

I am a specialist Mental Health Occupational Therapist, with extensive postgraduate training in play therapy, individual, family and group therapy utilizing a variety of frameworks. I have previously worked in child/youth/family mental health in both community and hospital settings as a play therapist, conducting life skills training, experiential and psychotherapy groups and family work. Currently I work in private practice with people of all ages using both traditional modalities such as activity-based therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and general psychotherapy/counselling as well as more body-based frameworks such as Somatics and Dance Movement Therapy, Sensory Modulation, Nature Therapy and Animal-assisted therapy. I am available for individual sessions both in my home studio/on my property and online. I also conduct workshops/group sessions.
May June Joey Yew
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Profile Summary:
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.
Michelle Backhouse
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Locations of work
Albany, Denmark Western Australia
Services offered:
In Person, Online
Services for
Chronic Pain Illness, Mental Health, Neurological Impairment, Trauma Recovery, Wellbeing
Working with
Adults, Children, Teens, Individuals, Groups
Profile Summary:
Michelle is deeply interested in the application of dance movement therapy in neurorehabilitation, and mental health settings. With over 20 years of experience as an occupational therapist, she has worked with a diverse range of clients across various environments, including acute, subacute tertiary health care and in the comunity. As an Open Floor teacher, Michelle combines her passion for dance and conscious movement with a love for the therapeutic aspects of music, fostering connection and deep inner exploration in community and group settings. She also integrates a strong interest in ecopsychology and somatics into her practice. Michelle offers her expertise in both one-on-one and group sessions, driven by a profound curiosity about how dance movement therapy can facilitate the healing and integration of body, mind, and soul.
Rachel Mortimer
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Profile Summary:
Rachel has worked as a therapist and youth/support worker, particularly within the NDIS framework, Her client-focused approach blends a unique set of skills to provide a nurturing and safe space. She collaborates with her clients to uncover the hidden stories/experiences stored in the body, reprogram the nervous system, and gently release narratives that aren’t serving us well, allowing the body to achieve balance. She has worked with acquired brain injuries, neurodiversity, intellectual disabilities, autoimmune conditions/ post op, dementia, and Alzheimer’s. Facilitated sessions in Aged care homes and private practice, Using evidence-based modalities and trauma-informed care to create safe,and supportive environments that foster holistic health. She offers both one-on-one and group sessions, she currently runs a creative movement group for women. She may even bring her therapy dog, Stella, to enhance the therapeutic environment.
Renee Manning
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Profile Summary:
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.
Sandi Middleton
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Profile Summary:
Sandi is a dance movement therapist, purpose coach, leadership facilitator and an African dance teacher. She finds joy and wisdom in movement practices and strongly values the healing nature of dance through bodyfulness, as well as mindfulness. Sandi is passionate about sharing the capacity of dance and embodied practice to promote wellbeing, learning and growth.

Sandi combines evidence-based dance-movement therapy and coaching to help clients reconnect with their body and mind and reach their human potential.

She has experience working with clients suffering from anxiety, depression and trauma, children with physical and intellectual disabilities, older adults with dementia and new mothers and babies.

Sandi is currently working as a dance movement therapist and coach, working with clients in a group and one-on-one setting. She runs a community authentic movement class and an African inspired, dance movement class. She enjoys inviting others to experience the joy and freedom of moving and from their essential self.
Sandra Perrin
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Profile Summary:
Sandra has experience with a diverse range of groups including mental health, disability, culturally and linguistically diverse, autism carers, seniors, autistic adults and preschool children. Her group program, “Make A Move”, provides a supportive and nurturing space for people to express their emotions and develop their creativity through movement. It includes a range of dance styles along with creative improvisation and use of props that can be adapted to suit the group. She also offers individual therapy. Sandra is currently involved in running peer support groups and social events for autistic adults, and has previous experience as a mental health peer worker, job coach and children’s dance teacher. She currently enjoys belly dancing, singing and yog
Sergio Dantas de Souza
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Working with
Children, Teens
Profile Summary:
Working with DMT since 2021 with children and youth with special needs.
Yun Ju Chen
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Profile Summary:
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.