Dance Movement Psychotherapy
Movement and the Body
Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) is an alternative psychotherapy to talking therapy (psychology and counselling). It mainly focuses on the use of movements, dance, and the body. Nonverbal expressions are equally important to talking.
DMP is for all, and you require no dance and movement experiences and skills. The focus is on WHAT you express through your body, and not on HOW you do it.
The Body- Mind Connection
Dance Movement Psychotherapy helps us to connect the body and mind. With gentle guidance, we warm up our bodies, develop movements and express ourselves freely. We 'verbalise' our process at the end of the session so that you can make sense of your EMBODIED experience. This is an important process as the bodily experiences are actively spoken and that is how the body and mind can get connected with one another.
Trauma in the Body
Trauma gets stored in the body even when it happened when you did not speak a language to describe it (Read more about Preverbal Trauma).
Somatic interventions (called the bottom-up approach) are necessary for processing traumas; hence dance movement psychotherapy is one method of processing traumas.
Specialisations
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trauma (preverbal, complex, developmental trauma)
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body dysmorphia and body image
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attachment issues
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neurodiverse populations