Individual Therapy

In my psychotherapeutic work, I combine systemic and dance therapy approaches. Dance therapy is a creative, movement- and body-orientated form of psychotherapy. Based on a holistic view of the human being, it focusses on physical, emotional, psychological, cognitive and social processes.

Corporal and sensual experiences form the starting point for dance therapy processes. Inviting the body allows access to feelings and topics that are difficult to grasp verbally. We come into tangible contact with conscious and unconscious parts of our personality and can learn to accept them and gently process our own story.

I see my as a therapist in offering a safe space that allows you to get in touch with yourself. A space in which you can dare to accept yourself and enter into a loving relationship with yourself. I am convinced that you will then feel more clearly what you need and how you can realise it. It is important to me to accompany you in solidarity towards living your life in a self-determined way.

When can dance therapy help?

In principle, dance therapy can be used to accompany all processes that are also found in other forms of psychotherapy. However, I find it particularly helpful because it involves more levels of the human being than traditional talking therapy. It thus enables profound transformation and holistic development. Dance therapy offers space for creative self-expression, opens up access to the subconscious (solution) knowledge of the body and also helps when talking alone is not enough.

By the way, it is not necessary to be able to dance for therapy. Although… I think that breathing is already dance – the lungs, diaphragm, heart and other organs in the body are constantly moving in a kind of inner-body contact improvisation. And even while you seem to be standing motionless, large and small muscles are constantly and dynamically adjusting your balance. I see all of this as dance. And from there, some movement can be added. But it doesn’t have to.

I can accompany you on these topics:

urgent or recurring emotional stress
stress, restlessness, discontent
depressive moods, anxiety, exhaustion
challenging life events (farewells, changes, losses, reorientation)

relationships of any kind
psychosomatic and dissociative symptoms
desire for feeling at home in your own body
challenges in connection with gender identity or sexual orientation

I use the following methods:

dance and expressive (arts) therapy
systemic therapy
Laban/Bartenieff movement studies, Bartenieff Fundamentals
mindfulness exercises

painting, writing, working with objects
working with breath and voice
work with inner parts and inner children
Contact Improvisation, Tango, BalFolk

An important part of therapeutic process is the accompanying, reflective dialogue. Only when we find words, we can lift experiences onto a conscious level. This is necessary in order to holistically integrate the movement experiences and actively incorporate them into your life.

Therapy process and duration

We start with an initial meeting to clarify your concerns and what you want to achieve. In the following meetings, we will go deeper into your topics and explore what your further journey could look like. Time will show how long it takes until the process feels completed to you. Sometimes only a few sessions are necessary, sometimes it takes more time – I will support you in being patient with yourself and giving your development the time it needs. We can arrange the frequency, intervals and duration of the appointments individually and adapt them to your needs.

Thanks for the pictures to hen_ninger!