About Dance Therapy & My Approach

What is Dance Therapy

Dance therapy uses the potential of dance for healing and growth. It works with the body and its movements and addresses the accumulated experience of life stored in our bodies. This helps us re-work the things that have forged and continue to forge our lives.

You absolutely don't need to be able to dance in dance therapy! It rather offers a space to play with your very own movements and explore novel things. There are no steps, rhythm or figures to be mastered. Instead it is a space to explore your own free movement and sense its echoes in your body and mind.

For this reason dance therapy is used widely for the treatment of mental health problems but also to further self-experience and personal growth. In numerous clinics it is an established part of the treatment, ranging from psychiatric through psychosomatic to pain clinics.

Below you will find more information about my therapeutic services as well as Workshops & Dance Practice. I practice dance therapy as a healing practitioner limited to psychotherapy.

Approach

As a dance therapist I find it important to build sustainable relationships with clients based on mutual respect and appreciation. An important part of my work is to accompany people in exploring their life and support them in changing it in ways that are good for them. Like dance, therapy is communication.

I see my role, among other things, in accompanying clients on a journey along the things that mark their life and to look at these in a mutual exchange.

As a sociologist I focus not only on individual but also on social conditions. I want to accompany people and support them as they find ways of dealing with the individual and social conditions they are facing.

Diversity and Inclusion

Based in my own queer experience as well as my work on racism, gender and sexuality, disablement and inclusion I strive for a practice that is sensitive of and respectful to diversity. This includes continuous reflection of my own at times privileged position. In this way I want to contribute to developing therapeutic services that empower people to deal with social conditions rather then cementing them.