Writing & Reflections – Clients’ Perspective

Writing & Reflections

Client Perspectives

Experiences of therapy, in their own words

Therapy is a deeply personal experience, and it can be difficult to know what it might actually feel like until you’ve been through it yourself.

The reflections gathered here have been written by people who have experienced therapy with me. They offer glimpses into different aspects of the therapeutic process — from discovering new ways of expressing themselves, to finding a different relationship with their bodies, emotions and experiences.

These are their words and their experiences, shared with permission. They don’t represent a typical therapy journey, and your experience would be your own. Therapy is shaped by the person, the relationship and what they bring to the work.

I’ve included these perspectives because sometimes hearing from someone who has been on the other side of the process can help make an unfamiliar form of therapy feel a little more understandable.

I hope you find something here that gives you a sense of what embodied psychotherapy can be like.

  • Finding Balance

    Dance Movement Psychotherapy isn’t only about working through difficulties. It can also offer space to become curious about ourselves — to notice what we carry in our bodies, how we respond to the world, and the different ways we have learned to protect and support ourselves. Sometimes, something that has felt confusing or difficult to…

  • The power of playfulness

    Playfulness can feel surprisingly radical in adulthood. As children, we usually have permission to explore simply because something is interesting, funny, beautiful or new. We experiment, imagine, make things up and follow our curiosity. We don’t necessarily need to know where we’re going. We discover as we go. As adults, life can become much more…

  • Listening to the inner landscape

    One of the things I love about Dance Movement Psychotherapy is that we don’t always know where a session is going to take us. A client may arrive with something they want to talk about, or simply with a feeling they can’t quite put into words. We can begin there, gently noticing what is happening…

  • Healing the Hurts

    There is something particularly valuable about hearing about Dance Movement Psychotherapy from the perspective of someone who has experienced it. It can be difficult to explain what happens in DMP because the work is different for every person. It isn’t simply about talking about what has happened, nor is it about making the body “do”…