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 describe my professional approach in a separate section. I practice dance therapy as a healing practitioner limited to psychotherapy.
Dance Therapy Consultations
Besides my clinical work at a geronto- and general psychiatric hospital I offer one-on-one sessions and group therapy in Berlin. My work focuses on:
- personal growth and self-experience
- loneliness
- feelings of fear and exhaustion
- depression
- dementia and the carers of people with dementia
- psychosomatic conditions
- support in difficult times and periods of disruption
- coping with chronic illness
- working with adults of all ages, including elderly people
- particular sensitivity to issues of lgbtqia+ walks of life
- therapeutic work in/with nature
Please do not hesitate to contact me. In an initial consultation we have the opportunity to get to know to each other and decide whether we want to work together. I offer consultations in German or English .
Group Therapy, Workshops, and Dance Classes
Apart from one-on-one sessions I offer different formats of group therapy, workshops and dance classes. Workshops may have a stronger focus on self-experience or rather on dancing. For further information click here.