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I am an experienced therapist who has worked in the field for over 20 years, mainly in Darwin and Hobart. I have worked with people from refugee background for much of this time and currently with children who have experienced developmental traumas and their safe support network of adults, with Australian Childhood Foundation.

Dance/Movement Therapy was long an interest of mine before I studied it formally. Now, it is an embodied way of being in my professional and personal worlds and which I practice in all my relationships - with self, other humans, animals and the natural environments I move with. I maintain a weekly practice, booking a hall close to where I live, to regularly attune to myself and digest experiences in my body. This time is indispensable to me now, offering me embodied clarity and fluidity of expression.

As such, embodiment is the centre of my practice. I read my own internal signs to feel what others are showing me in relational space. I am guided by these messages and the more overt ones explored in negotiating the path of learning of the individual or group I am with.

As with other practitioners, I use keen body language observation and use my skills in trauma awareness to offer a safe container to the person or people in my field of vision.

I complement my DMT practice by nourishing my whole self - dictating the pace at which I move and its quality, regularly meditating and using qi gong, trail running in the bush and swimming in the cool southern waters in my midst. I also play! Wherever and whenever possible...