Dance Movement Psychotherapy Summer School

Currently she works in acute adult mental health in the NHS as a DMP and facilitates different DMP (Foundation and MA) workshops in higher education.

Alongside a small private practice she creates specialist individual or group Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) and movement observation sessions for educational purposes, CPD and personal development.

Other DMP experience since 2006 includes: adult and child mental health, medically unexplained symptons, severe dementia, acute adult mental helath, learning disabilites, chronic depression, eating disordres and forensics.

Emily originally trained as a dancer in New York City and also completed a BA in Psychology. After several years as a professional dancer, Emily combined her two passions and trained as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist (MA, RDMP). She has worked with movement, dance and as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist across 4 countries, including setting up a time limited DMP intervention at a trafficking shelter in Nepal. Emily currently works as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist and Supervisor in private practice, as well as with organisations within the Violence Against Women and Girls sector and the NHS, with a focus on trauma and its impact. Additional DMP experience includes work with neurodiverse children and young people, learning disabilities, acute adult mental health, long-term adult mental health rehabilitation, and adults with complex emotional needs.

Dr Allison Singer is a Dance Movement Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, University Lecturer and Dance Anthropologist. She has worked with the creative arts in community and psychotherapeutic contexts for nearly 40 years. Her clinical experience includes work with people who experience complex trauma, anxiety and depression, eating disorders, dementia, forced displacement, learning disabilities, physical disabilities. Allison has chapters in a number of edited collections and has presented her research at national and international conferences and symposia including the United Nations, Geneva. Her research focuses on dance and healing; arts in International Development; intermodal arts approaches to psychotherapy; and Anthropology and the Arts Psychotherapies. Allison has led and consulted on Creative Arts Therapy MA programmes in the UK and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Roehampton; and a Research Associate, University of York.