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Expressive Movement Therapy

What is Expressive Movement Therapy?

Expressive Movement Therapy  (EMT) is a unique approach to self-exploration, self-discovery, and self-expression. EMT is based on the belief that movement and personal art expression have the power to reveal, heal and transform our bodies and our psyches. Movement and artistic expression act as a mirror, reflecting our physical, emotional and interpersonal concerns. This reflection is both a mirror and a map towards change and/or self-acceptance.

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The roots of EMT come from Gestalt Therapy, Motional Processing™ (based on Anna Halprin’s Life/Art Process™), Body-Mind Centering, and Laban Movement Analysis. EMT integrates these roots by cultivating a feedback process between movement, feelings, drawings and writing. A dialogue is created between our artistic expression and our life story. EMT seeks to integrate the creative mind and the moving body in a way that speaks to our current physical, emotional, and spiritual concerns.

An EMT session may include:

  • Guided movement explorations
  • Gestalt parts dialogue
  • Drawing
  • Psychokinetic Imagery (taking an image/drawing into movement)
  • Hands-on support

Introductory, half-day and day-long workshops are available.

WHCC Services

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
  • Psychodynamic Theory
  • EMDR
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Sandtray Therapy
  • Expressive Movement Therapy
  • Life Coaching
  • Play Therapy

Helpful Readings

  • Informational Readings
  • Inspirational Readings

Resources

  • Cinema-therapy
  • Favorite Ted Talks / Videos
  • Helpful Links
  • Book List

"Make yourself a door through which to be hospitable, even to the stranger in you."
-- David Whyte

"Where you stumble and fall there you will find true gold."
-- Carl Jung

"People start to heal the moment they feel heard."
-- Cheryl Richardson

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