Dance / Movement Therapy

I received my degree in Dance/Movement Therapy. While the name can be a bit intimidating to some, I employ movement interventions in a client-focused manner and only when people want to use them. This can vary from identifying what emotions feel like in your body all the way up to doing things like punching pillows to process anger.

I integrate Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) as a pathway to self-discovery and emotional well-being. My approach merges cultural understanding, embodied healing, and evidence-based practices to help clients move beyond adversity and step into their full potential. Whether through therapy, coaching, or education, I am committed to guiding individuals toward thriving, not just surviving.

This is a creative and somatic method that invites in body awareness as well as expressive movement. Movement signifies vitality, change, adaptability, and is the opposite of stuckness and stagnation. When we mindfully allow thoughts and emotions to move, we can ride the waves of life with grace.

You don't need to be a dancer to benefit from movement as a way to connect with your body’s wisdom, get in touch with your creativity, and support emotional healing. This is especially true for areas that don't improve with talk therapy alone.

I am an expert in dance movement therapy, a specialized form of therapy that uses movement and body awareness to promote emotional, physical, and cognitive healing. With a background in both psychology and the arts, I integrate the expressive power of movement with traditional therapeutic techniques to help clients process emotions, reduce stress, and enhance self-awareness. Dance movement therapy allows individuals to connect with their bodies in a nonverbal way.

DMT is the therapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration of the individual, based on the empirically supported premise that the body, mind and spirit are interconnected. Movement is used as a catalyst, and a means into the person's inner feelings and a way to express, cope, interact with others, and integrate their experiences. Is it fancy? No! Movement&dance can be anything from breathing, posture, communicating, the way we hold ourselves.

I use Dance/movement therapy alongside psychodynamic and humanistic approaches. I use kinesthetic empathy to help give me more information about the client and how they are showing up that day. Our movement and body tells us so much that words alone cannot. This is why I find it to be an extra layer of being able to see clients and help them create healing. DMT helps create somatic healing. I will help you learn to regulate your nervous system which I find to be great for anxiety and PTSD.

I'm a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist (BC-DMT) and currently the secretory of American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA).

When I use DMT techniques, it can be as minimal as increasing awareness and mindfulness of one’s body and mind such as noticing how you ascribe somatic cues (physiological experiences) to your experience of emotions, how particular thoughts can elicit particular emotions or physiological experiences, or how your posture changes when different topics are discussed, for example.

I have a masters degree in dance/movement therapy and I hold my R-DMT and my LCAT-LP. My theoretical framework is based around my dance/movement therapy practice.

The client will learn about their movement repertoire and discover how certain bodily movements act as defenses (whether healthy or unhealthy) from the environment. DMT supports the physical, intellectual and emotional health of the individual. Often times, words alone cannot access the psychological and behavioral concerns of the individual. Clients will learn to travel inwardly, finding stories inside that they couldn't access with verbal therapy.

Dance/movement therapy combines my interest in body-based practices with psychology. I offer a safe, compassionate, and empathetic space for therapy; I use a trauma-informed lens and I want to create a space that feels safe for you. My unique perspective as a dance/movement therapist might bring attention to the mind/body, invite awareness of nervous system responses, and help navigate your unconscious life to help you make more conscious choices.

I am trained as a dance/movement therapist, so I incorporate movement as a means of self-expression, connection, and self-regulation in sessions. I support clients with connecting to their whole selves through genuine movement and body awareness. This may be brief or extended in a session depending on the client's needs and interests.

Through dancing my whole life and later integrating therapeutic techniques into movement, I realized the deep connection between mind, body, and relationships or how we orient with the world. Experiencing trauma can cause memories to be coded in a physical place in your body where movement can activate the nonverbal memories to allow for deeper processing and provide a movement based intervention to help increase neurotransmitters and endorphins that increase mood.

Throughout my life, I have held countless positions in the field of dance and movement. I have been a conscious dance facilitator for over a decade. Before I attended graduate school, I had a private somatic practice in which I engaged clients in embodiment sessions in a dance studio setting, often accompanied by music. I love incorporating movement into my somatic sessions with therapy clients.