MS, BC-DMT, LCAT

Joan is an established dance therapist in US. She is currently the Director of Graduate Dance/Movement Therapy Program in the Graduate Creative Arts Therapy Department, at Pratt Institute. Joan has 24 years of clinical experience and 16 years of teaching experience. She served on the Approval Committee of the ADTA from 2005 till 2010. Joan made a significant contribution in the effort to get creative arts therapy as a professional licensed in New York State. Her work has been recognized with an Outstanding Service Award from the ADTA in 2002 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Art Therapy Association in 2003. Since 2010, Joan has been involved with the dance therapy training program development in China with Inspirees, and has travelled often to China to teach in our professional courses as well as many workshops.

BC-DMT

Ted has been a dance therapist at Woodhull Hospital for 25 years. In the early 80’s he discovered that movement was expressive and that his body moving could be his teacher. This let him to HunterCollege for a MA in Dance Therapy and to the LabanSchool for a certification in Laban Movement Analysis. He has participated as a movement analyst in a psychoanalytic research project at New YorkUniversity and as another in forensic medicine at JohnJayCollege. Both were overseen by Dr. Martha Davis. At Woodhull he has supervised dance therapists and dance therapy interns. He teaches at Pratt Institute and at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. His work has been featured in the video, Moving Stories, produced by the New York Chapter of the American Dance Therapy Association. This video is on the ADTA website on DMT and Mental Health.

Ph.D, BC-DMT

Christina Devereaux, PhD, LCAT, LMHC, BC-DMT, NCC is an Associate Clinical Professor and Program Director for the Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling program at Drexel University, College of Nursing and Health Professions. She is former Program Director and Associate Professor at Antioch University New England in the Department of Applied Psychology and Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute for 13 years. She currently serves on the senior faculty at Inspirees, a training program for DMT in China, and an international faculty member for Dance Therapy New Zealand. She served as co-editor of the American Journal of Dance Therapy from 2011-2017 and a two time President’s Award recipient from the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) for her outstanding contributions to the profession (2008 and 2017). She was featured on National Public Radio (NPR), CCTV, the largest television station in China, and as a presenter for the 2014 ADTA Talks series focusing on DMT and autism.  In addition to authoring many chapters and journal publications, she has a blog with Psychology Today “Meaning in motion: Dancing with the mind in mind.”

BC-DMT

Julie is a Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. She is currently the chair for Creative Arts Therapy Department at Pratt Institute and the co-founder and director of The New York Center for the Study of Authentic Movement. From 2009, she became the chair for BC-DMT Panel, Dance/Movement Therapy Certification Board of American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA). Julie has more than 28 years of clinical and teaching experience. She has always worked mainly with adults through the spectrum of emotional disorders ranging from Psychosis through borderline states and normal neurotic. She is more of a generalist. She interests has always been in combining verbal and body interventions with whatever population she is working.

BC-DMT

Tina Erfer is a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. For the past thirty years, she has worked in educational and psychiatric settings, with children and adolescents with special needs. She has also served as Coordinator of the Hospital School Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has given numerous lectures and workshops at various agencies and universities, and has also provided many staff development and training sessions. Tina supervises and trains graduate students and enty-level dance/movement therapists. She has published on her dance/movement therapy work with children who have emotional challenges, and children with autism. Tina has served on the Board of Directors of the American Dance Therapy Association; is past President of the New York State Chapter of the ADTA; and she is currently the President of the New Jersey Chapter of ADTA. She is the Coordinator of the Alternate Route Dance/Movement Therapy Training Program at the Harkness Dance Center (at the 92nd Street Y) in New York; and a faculty member of the Dance/Movement Therapy Training Program of Inspirees, in China.

BC-DMT, NCC

Marcia’s background has taken her from performing artist, choreographer and dance teacher in New York city, to Italy where, she studied to became a board certified dance movement therapist (DMT), an American board certified counselor and Italian psychologist, to pioneering DMT in Italy, Finland and Turkey. Co –founder in 1993 of the training program Creative movement- method Garcia-Plevin, the book  which describes the training, Creative Movement and Dance has been  published in Italian, French and English.  She received DMT training from Art Therapy Italiana in collaboration with Goldsmith College, University of London with a certification of  art psychotherapist.   She is a senior faculty member and supervisor for the Institute of Expressive   Arts Psychotherapy, Art Therapy Italiana.  Clinical practice in the past 20 years has been with patients recovering from substance abuse, adult psychiatric patients and with hemo-oncological unit patients on the pediatric unit of the Vatican children’s hospital.   Authentic Movement teacher and trainer she has begun and followed groups in Italy, Finland and Turkey. Marcia is a recent member of the faculty of Inspirees DMT programs in China.

BC-DMT, LCAT, CMA

Elissa White is a Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and a Certified Movement Analyst.  She studied with both Marian Chace and Irmgard Bartenieff  in the l960’s.  She is a Charter member and Past President of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) and held many other Board positions since l964, including the first chair of the Registry Committee (now Credentials Committee). She is a former Co-Editor and Editorial Board Member of the American Journal of Dance Therapy. She is a Co-Founder of the former Dance Therapy Program at Hunter College at the City University of New York, and has taught and continues to teach courses  in dance  therapy theory and practice, group dance therapy theory and movement analysis for over 40 years.  She currently teaches at Pratt Institute and The  New School.  In the late 60’s she began the dance therapy program at Bronx State Hospital and worked part-time at the Bronx, Harlem Valley and Creedmoor Psychiatric Centers for some 25 years.

BC-DMT, CMA, LMFT

Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb brings her experience and training as Dance/Movement Therapist, Laban Movement Analyst, Somatics/Body Therapists, Psychotherapist, Somatic Trauma Practitioner as well as a movement educator, dancer, choreographer, and performer, to guide students in their learning. She has taught courses that focus on the embodied uses of dance, movement and body awareness to promote healing and wholeness for over 40 years in professional and community settings. Specific courses have included Dance/Movement Therapy, Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (L/BMS), Authentic Movement, Experiential Kinesiology, Improvisation, Creative Expression as well as many other therapy-related topics. Former class participants have included graduate and undergraduate students, performers, dancers, dance/movement therapists, physical therapists, body therapists and interested individuals (young and old) wanting to discover a more embodied relationship with their body Students who have taken her courses report many benefits, including increased ease and range of expressive movement, greater feelings of confidence, calm and embodied presence in their interpersonal interactions.

BC-DMT

Linda Aaron-Cort has enjoyed a long and diverse career as a dance/movement therapist. In addition to her position as a trainer with Inspirees Institute, she teaches dance/movement therapy for the Center for Movement Education and Research in California and Seoul, Korea. Her past clinical work and teaching includes: Director of the Creative Therapies Department at First Hospital Vallejo, Program Director of the Serenity Eating Disorders Program at the Mt Diablo Medical Pavilion, and faculty at the Authentic Movement Institute. She has designed and implemented a wide range of mental health services for children, adolescents, and adults, and in recent years has focused on co-occurring disorders and addiction. She currently serves on the Dance/movement Therapy Certification Board and works as a dance/movement therapist at John Muir Behavioral Health in Concord, California.

BC-DMT, RPT/S, R-DT

Steve Harvey, PhD, BC-DMT, RPT-S, is a clinical psychologist currently working with children, adolescents, and their families in the New Zealand public health service. He is a board certified dance/movement therapist (ADTA), and a registered play therapist/supervisor with Association of Play Therapy. He has published extensively on the use of physical play with families and children and was a pioneer in the field of family play therapy. He has conduct several research project investigating of expressive arts and play intervention with children. Recently he has incorporated arts based projects within more traditional settings including with student in mainstream and special education classrooms and publicly funded mental health clinics.

Steve has conducted workshops in the application of expressive arts in therapy and education throughout Europe, North American, Australia, and New Zealand to train professionals as well as for personal growth. He and his wife Connor have developed and continue to practice Physical Storytelling in several countries. He is currently presenting and publishing arts based research using Physical Storytelling in cross cultural contexts.

BC-DMT, LCAT

Rena is a senior lecturer in the dance department, (teaching there since 1983.)  She coordinates an undergraduate certificate program in ‘Introductory Studies in Dance/Movement Therapy’ as well as teaching ballroom dance. Ms. Kornblum obtained a Masters in Creative Arts in Therapy from Hahnemann University, and is a board certified dance/movement therapist. She brings over thirty-five years of professional experience as a dance/movement therapist to her therapy and prevention work. She developed the children and family program at Hancock Center for Dance/Movement Therapy, where she is currently the Executive Director.  She initiated an in-school program in which she provides therapy sessions for children dealing with physical and sexual abuse or other trauma as well as violence prevention classes for entire classrooms. Rena has written a book called Disarming the Playground, Violence Prevention Through Movement and Pro-Social Skills, published by Wood ‘N’ Barnes Publishers and edited two training DVDs by the same name, all of which describe her prevention curriculum in detail.  Rena has been doing workshops and trainings on her work around the country and internationally.

PhD, BC-DMT

Thania Acarón is a dance movement therapist, performer and choreographer from Puerto Rico, currently based in Wales, United Kingdom. She holds a PhD on the role of dance in violence prevention at the University of Aberdeen, a Master’s Degree in Dance Education from New York University and advanced credentialing as a board-certified dance movement therapist in the United States and United Kingdom. She currently as a Performing Arts Lecturer at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Thania offers international workshops on movement and wellbeing and interdisciplinary practice and is co-artistic director of Orphaned Limbs Collective.

BC-DMT

Since 1984 she is actively collaborating with the Association Art Therapy Italiana which has been promoting and supporting the Creative Art Therapies Clinical Practice and Training in Art Therapy and Dance Movement Therapy. From 1989 she is teacher and clinical supervisor at the DMT Training Program of Art Therapy Italiana, and from 1992 till 2006 she has been the director of the DMT Department in Art Therapy Italiana. She is the now, since 2004 the Co- Director of the Institute of Expressive Psychotherapy integrated to Art and Dance Movement Therapy. She has also organized for many years the Continuing Education Seminars for Creative Arts Professionals in ATI

She has also been teaching D.M.T. and related matters in many different national and European schools and settings: In Vienna, Austria, being the mentor for DMT Elisabeth Grunberger for over 6 years and in Germany working for the Langen Institute, in Russia  at the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis IPP&P, Moscow, and DMT program directed by Irina Biriukova. In Switzerland In the last few years she started teaching AM introductory seminars with her husband Jung Institute in Kusnacht Zurich Rosa Maria  has been very much involved for many years in managing and designing training, developing outlines, structures, shaping curricula of studies regarding the profession of Dance Movement Psychotherapy, and she has published different articles in Italian and English on related matters.

She is in the editing board of” Dance Body Movement in Psychotherapy” Magazine Ed Routledge. She has founded the Italian Professional Association DMT in 1997 A.P.I.D. being the vice president for 3 years. She has been in clinical practice since 1984 in Italy working in different public and private Intuitions with different populations.

BC-DMT, NCC

Cara Gallo-Jermyn is a board-certified Dance Movement Therapist and LCAT in NYC. She completed post-graduate training in the practice of Authentic Movement and Group Psychotherapy. She has been practicing in NYC for the duration of her career, working in psychiatric hospitals, educational settings and non-profits. Presently, she maintains a private practice in Chelsea, NYC. She is adjunct faculty at the Pratt Institute Graduate Creative Arts Therapy Program and at SUNY Empire State College in the Human Services undergraduate studies program. She is faculty member of Critical Pedagogies in the Arts Therapies. Creative Arts Therapy supervisor at Project Common Bond, an annual Peace Symposium. Project Common Bond brings together young people from all over the globe who have lost a loved one to an act of terrorism, political, religious or sectarian violence. During the program the young people engage in the necessary difficult dialogue and learning that facilitates a peace building process. Finally, she recently published a chapter in the co-edited text Creative Arts Therapies and the LGBTQ Community: Theory and Practice.

BC-DMT, LCAT

David has lectured on five continents regarding dance/movement therapy (DMT) in the treatment of relational trauma. The American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) has bestowed on David both its research award and its Leader of Tomorrow award. In 2017, he shared its President’s award with Dr. Christina Devereaux for a special issue of the American Journal of Dance Therapy, which they co-edited from 2014 to 2017. A graduate of Drexel University’s DMT training program, David lectures and publishes on the application of DMT and movement-based creative interventions developed to foster psychosocial healing after severe traumatic exposures.

BC-DMT

Connor offers DMT in a school and with Circle of Care for cancer survivors. She teaches, supervises and mentors DMTs and students in New Zealand, Australia and China.  She teaches an on line Authentic Movement course with colleague Anne Hurst (NZ). She co-created Physical Storytelling with her husband, Dr. Steve Harvey.  Her therapy experiences include people with disabilities, brain injured adults, frail elderly and children. She offers workshops and retreats in Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand and is on the faculty of Inspirees Institute, China.  She is regional convenor for the DTAA committee teaches yoga and resides in GUAM, USA.

BC-DMT, CMA

Susan is a seasoned dance/movement therapist with 35 years of experience working with people across the lifespan and differing abilities in psychiatric, medical, palliative care, and community based settings.  The aim of her work has always emphasized a sense of wholeness, body-mind connection, and awareness, as well as a deep desire to get to understand the contexts of someone else’s life.  She has worked clinically and conducted research on death and dying, spirituality, and has taught and published her work in hospital based settings nationally and internationally.  Susan is an editor for the Journal of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) and is a member of the Committee on Approval in the ADTA.  Her interests in  holistic practices led her to become a registered yoga teacher and a Reiki III practitioner. She is currently partnering with an organization in Rwanda to create a sustainable model for integrating body-mind strategies to support widows of genocide. Currently, Susan is a professor and the Clinical Education Coordinator in the graduate dance/movement therapy department at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York; and conduct a small private practice in her home office.

UKCP, CMA, RMST/E

Susan has 30 years experience of working as a Movement Psychotherapist and applying the model to a variety of client needs. She started my professional life as a social worker with an interest in mental health, going on to community rehabilitation projects for people surviving strokes, followed by a period in psychiatric nursing and community mental health care. She embarked on the world of movement psychotherapy with adults with visual impairment and other disadvantageous conditions. She was inspired by the value of dance and improvisation on a residential week with MotionHouse dance company; when dance through Contact Improvisation was introduced to people who rarely left their wheelchairs. The atmosphere was electric – She will never forget the energy, hope and sheer joy that the participants experienced – including myself. This led her to train as a Dance Movement Therapist at the Laban Centre, London (1990), later completing the Certificate in Movement Analysis at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Analysis in New York (2008). Her MA thesis based on group work undertaken in a women’s refuge was the beginning of developing an accessible and relevant service to support men and women survivors of abuse and neglect. In 2009 she completed Level 1 of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy training from the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI USA) and Trauma Training in Scotland (TTiS). This study ensured she could practice safely and effectively with clients naming their struggle with the effect of trauma. Since 2015 Susan have engaged in further studies in BodyMind Centering – an intensive experiential anatomy training devised by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.

In addition to therapeutic skills Susan have gained the Certificate in Reflective Practice and Creative Supervision in 2014 and provide supervision to health practitioners and arts therapists in Central Scotland and on-line using zoom.  She have been supervising since 2005, in groups and individually, and devised a model of movement supervision that engages our somatic awareness of transference.

Susan combines my Movement Psychotherapy practice with teaching internationally and being pro-active in the European Dance Movement Therapy association. Susan held the role of President of the European Association Dance Movement Therapy (EADMT) for six years, and continue to support their work as coordinator of the Training Standards working group. She am a named counsellor with the Joshua Nolan Foundation (JNF), who provides funding to those on low incomes so they can access counselling and psychotherapy. The fund is geared towards supporting people struggling with serious mental health issues, to work towards regaining hopefulness and a more whole sense of self.

BC-DMT, LCAT

Jean is a Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist with over 30 years of clinical and teaching experience.  Currently, Jean is a supervising DMT at Jacobi Medical Center where she works with adults who have been diagnosed with mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders, has a private clinical and supervision practice and is on the faculty at Pratt Institute. Through her experience dancing and choreographing with the Pittsburgh Dance Alloy (a modern dance company) she became interested in the power of movement to express what words cannot. She has served on the credentialing committee for the ADTA, co-coordinated a national conference, was Vice President and Program Director of the New York State Chapter of the ADTA, and developed the first dance therapy program for Catholic Charities for people with developmental disabilities. Jean has had articles published in the American Journal of the ADTA.  Her article “Behind the Gates:  Dance/Movement Therapy in a Women’s Prison”, was highly praised. Additional training and expertise include Authentic Movement and combining Family Therapy with DMT.

PhD, UKCP, Professor

Professor Dr. Helen Payne, is a UKCP accredited psychotherapist; Fellow ADMT.UK and Snr.Reg. dance movement psychotherapist who helped to pioneer DMT in the UK starting the professional association, post graduate accredited training, research and publications. She conducts research, supervises PhDs and teaches and examines nationally and internationally. Trained in Laban Movement; Person-Centered Counselling and Group Analysis, Helen also has a private practice offering her own form of Authentic Movement with groups and individuals. She is currently setting up a company ‘Pathways2Wellbeing’ to train facilitators and to deliver The BodyMind Approach (TBMA) to patients in the NHS/occupational health with persistent, physical symptoms which have no medical explanation. Professor Payne is now on the scientific research committee for Inspirees DMT program.  She is the professor in Hertfordshire University in UK.