With Individuals
As with verbal psychotherapy, the relationship between the therapist and yourself is important with Dance Movement Psychotherapy. Building trust and an environment of safety allows the conditions for self-exploration and the potential for change.
What happens in a session?
Sessions last for one hour at a time.
Often at first as we are getting used to each other, the session will begin with a movement warm up which is led by myself. This is to ease you into the body and movement and for those who struggle to dance or move spontaneously, this can be helpful.
The warm up is followed by a discussion and from then, the session content is decided upon, according to your needs.
My approach is to follow your process and I do move with you. The amount of talking we do, is also decided by what seems best at the time.
There is not an expectation of performance or doing the movements correctly. The aim to allow your body to ‘speak’, connecting to your feelings and emotions and increasing your body awareness.
Freeing the body of old emotions and sometimes traumas plus expanding your range of movement coupled with having the body-mind connection can lead to making the changes you identify as necessary.
How it works?
Contact me to arrange an assessment session where we can both decide if it seems that Dance Movement Psychotherapy with me could be useful. If we go ahead, there follows 3/4 sessions to give some time to establish the aims of the work together.