What is Dance Movement Therapy?

Dance Movement Therapy is the therapeutic use of dance, movement,
body awareness and nonverbal communication to promote integration
psychological, social, and physical aspects of the individual with the aim of improving their health and well-being.
This approach is based on the evidence of the mind-body connection and
considers the individual as a whole, drawing on various schools of psychology and
body techniques.

Who is it for?

Adults:

● As a tool for psychosocial support, prevention, and personal development.
● In addition to psychotherapeutic and/or psychiatric follow-up for
issues such as addiction, schizophrenia, and other disorders
psychotic disorders, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, consequences
trauma, etc.
● In addition to medical monitoring for conditions that cause pain and
physical difficulties such as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis,
cancers, etc.

Children and adolescents:

● As a tool for dealing with minor emotional and social difficulties,
physical or cognitive.
● In addition, as part of comprehensive care for young people with
autism spectrum disorders, attention disorders, and disorders
psychic abilities in general.

What is it for?
Dance Movement Therapy allows you to:
● Connect with your body, get to know it, embrace it, and learn to appreciate it.
● Work on emotional skills: identification, understanding, expression
and regulation.
● Work on social skills: communication, empathy, respect for others
own limits and those of others, self-confidence and trust in others.
● Work through the consequences of life stories and traumas.
● reduce anxiety.
● becoming aware of issues that are difficult to express in words.
● Develop creativity and the ability to play.
● knowing where you are in space and time.
● Expand the repertoire of movements and review the stages of development.
missed or poorly acquired.
● Develop attention and memory.

At Centre Pensées, we offer 50-minute individual sessions for
adults, teenagers, and children. 30-minute sessions are available to accommodate
specific needs.

We also offer a Dance Movement Therapy group for children.
Ages 7 to 11, Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. (max. 6 children).