I am Dance Movement therapist with a psycho-dynamic orientation. The main tool of the sessions are our body and its movement, which are allowed to express themselves through playful and creative experiences. Believing that the body is the most honest and expressive tool we possess to express our feeling and emotions when words are not sufficient, I offer a chance to explore, together with clients, how to get to know better their own body and become more aware of it. Letting the body move freely and going from the non-verbal to the verbal can, in fact, be an amazing tool to become slowly more aware of your own needs and emotions. In this way, emotions that are too strong will not surprise and overwhelm you anymore, should you find yourself  in a stressful situation or experience an unexpected event. Instead, you are given guidance by way of your own body, so that you may handle such moments more easily. 

To help the process, I use different theoretical tools and basic elements of the psychodynamic DMT, such as the LMA (Laban Movement Analysis) and the KMB (Kestenberg Movement Profile), as systems and methods of movement observation and analysis, which guide and structure every session.

A FEW THEORETICAL REFERENCES

Dance Movement Therapy with a psycho-dynamic orientation has its origins in the 40s thanks to the studies of M. Chace, M. Whitehouse & T. Schoop, the principles of the Movement Analysis by R. Laban and the contribution of the studies made by I. Bartenieff, P.Hackney & J. Kestenberg and co. (S. Loman). My approach follows the principles and techniques developed by the school and association “Art Therapy Italiana” in Bologna which has integrated all these fundamentals theoretical premises, enriching them with the contributions of D. McCall & R.M. Govoni, founders of the Dance Movement department.