Other Qualifications BA, MFA, MPS, MAPS, FCCOUNP, AuSTAT, STAT, PACFA Reg. Clinical
★ DMT Experience Jane Refshauge has a background in the performing arts and psychology. She has studied, performed and taught dance and movement disciplines, that have developed from the premise that the body is a “psycho-physical-spiritual unity”. She has worked within professional dance studios, tertiary and secondary educational institutions, and psychiatric hospital settings. From 1979 she lived in NYC and studied Ideo-kinesis with Andre Bernard, Body-Mind Centring with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, Kinetic Awareness with Elaine Summers and the Alexander Technique with June Ekman, Marjorie Barstow and Eva Karczag among others. On her return to Australia she was employed as a Psychologist and Dance Movement Therapist (DMT) at Wingrove Cottage Community Clinic and was trained and supervised in DMT on site by psychoanalytic psychiatrist Dr Daniel Kahans from 1985-2001. She began her private practice in DMT in 1990. In 1994, she undertook an internship in Dance Movement Therapy at Princeton House, a unit of the Medical Centre at Princeton, New Jersey, under the supervision of Barbara Harrison. Jane’s Dance Movement Therapy Diploma was completed under the direction of Dr Marcia Leventhal in 2004 with the International Dance Therapy Institute of Australia (IDTIA). She completed her degree of Master of Psychoanalytic Studies with the School of Psychology and Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University in 2010. Her thesis based on DMT case studies was titled: "Towards and Understanding of Psychic Life in Utero".
Description 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.
