Dee Wagner is a licensed professional counselor and board - certified
dance therapist who has been helping couples and daters for twenty - three years.
Stephanie Johnson MA, R - DMT, LPC Stephanie is a mother, licensed teacher, Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered
Dance Therapist who brings a unique perspective to education and child development.
Not exact matches
We have a Registered Art
Therapist, a Board Certified
Dance and Movement
Therapist,
therapists that use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectic Behavior Therapy, and a clinician
who uses the Gottman Method for couples therapy, for example.
Membership in OEATA strives to be accessible and inclusive and is open to trained Expressive Arts
Therapists, other Arts - Based
Therapists (
Dance, Art, Music etc.
who have had some OEATA recognized training in expressive arts), Community based Expressive Arts Practitioners (non-psychotherapy) and a variety of Students, Educators, Professional Health Care Practitioners, Affiliates and supporters.
Therapists who are trained in EFT have the skills to be able help couples identify this
dance of disconnection, to help couples stop it and create a new
dance of connection.
There are several goals in couples therapy: 1) understand how prior relationships provide the framework for how adults view self and partner in close relationships, and and how relationship patterns («the
dance») occur; 2) create a secure relationship where partners are emotionally available, genuinely involved and responsive in a sensitive and caring way; 3) establish trust and a sense of safety and comfort, especially during difficult times and distressing emotions («fight fair»), 4) change the
dance — learn constructive communication and conflict - management skills so that partners respond to one another's needs and emotions with empathy, understanding and support, rather than with anger, rejection or withdrawal; 5) experience a secure relationship with the
therapist,
who models attunement, support, self control, patience and appropriate boundaries.
As a psychologist and
dance movement
therapist, I am happy to see Leslie Korn's book Rhythms of Recovery: Trauma, Nature, and the Body, appropriate for people
who have experienced trauma as well as for
therapists working with trauma victims.
With over 40 years of experience, Dr. Jim Walkup offers marriage counseling supervision for any
therapists who wish to further understand the intricate
dance between couples and their counselor.