DMT Register

DMT clinical work:

I offer both individual and group work through private practice or ACC funding.

Approach to DMT practice: With a diverse lived-experience of cultural shifts and childhood adversity, I embodied a unique sensitivity and understanding toward safety and ethical practice. Whenever possible, I work collaboratively with you to identify goals, strengths, challenges, and pathways. I employ kinaesthetic attunement in co-creating safer space with you. I value the diversities and complexities of our wellbeing and needs- this may include cultural, socio-political, gender/sexual, and other-abilities. Taking a humanistic approach, I incorporate mindfulness and somatic processes to nourish our therapeutic relationships and inform the therapy trajectory. Body, movement (micro to macro), rhythm, mark-making, creative writing and other arts form may be used through creative arts therapy (CAT) lens to allow pattern breaking and creative knowing.

DMT related training: four years of undergrad psychology training, three years of postgrad community DMT training in Taiwan; two years of Master of Dance Movement Therapy in Creative Arts Therapy program in USA focusing on psychodynamic and developmental psychotherapy approach. My advanced trainings include Focusing, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Ways of Seeing (trained with Dr Suzi Tortora), Trauma-informed Restorative Body psychotherapy (trained with Dr Amber Gray), The BodyMind Approach ® (trained with Dr Helen Payne), Shin Somatics ® Bodywork & Therapy, Land to Water Yoga (developed by Dr Sondra Fraleigh), and advanced Mindful-Somatic Trauma Training for Trauma Processing (trained with Dr Paris Williams), to name a few.

DMT/CAT supervision:

I offer individual and group supervision for DMT students (University of Auckland & TWNZ trainees), new grads, and expereicned practitioners. I work in-person/online for Aotearoa, Taiwan, and global DMTs, as well as creative arts therapies communities.

Approach to supervision: Moving Encounter Transcultural Supervision is a supervision approach I developed/ing since 2015. With a diverse lived-experience of cultural shifts and childhood adversity, I embodied a unique sensitivity and understanding toward safety and ethical practice. I take supervisee-centred, mirrored person-centred, approach with emphasising on embodied reflections and reflexivity. I support supervisee identifying needs, challenges, and intentions for our supervision journey. Collaborative, embodiment and creative models are incorporated, as well as verbal investigation, and exploration of unconscious processes and therapeutic relationships. I work with supervisees' innate resources and unique values in their own practice and being. Aligning with my clinical approach (see DMT experience), I integrated my Eastern root and Western contemporary training while continuing to shift/move with the dynamic exchange in supervisory relationships.

Philosophy of Supervision: Grounded in Eastern philosophy, I believed in co-flourishing, integrity, humility, compassion, and ethical care. Embodying what we practice/teach including self-care and self-regulation is the key for sustainability. I am committed to cultivate safety-ing and respobsible supervision where ethical delimma and practical issues can be openly discussed. I love supporting therapist-in-training and professional therapists to flourish in the work they engage. Together, we can grow a healthier forest.

Supervision training: Psychodynamic Supervision; Arts based Creative Arts Therapy Supervision; Intervision Supervision; Ways of Seeing supervision