About Us

Helen Payne

Professor Helen Payne, PhD; UKCP; Fellow ADMP Reg. dance movement psychotherapist pioneered DMP in the UK leading the professional association, first post graduate accredited training, research and publications. ‘Chair in Psychotherapy’ at the University of Hertfordshire, School of Education, conferred as ‘Professor of Psychotherapy’ in 2007.

Joan Wittig

Joan Wittig is Director of the Graduate Dance/Movement Therapy Program at Pratt Institute. Wittig worked for New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation for 16 years, including 7 years as Director of the Creative Arts Therapy Department at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center.

Tony Yu Zhou

Dr. Zhou holds a doctoral degree in biomedicine and has been working and living in China and Europe for many years.  Though trained as a scientist, he has been greatly intrigued by modern dance and dance therapy since 2002 and has played an important role in driving the development of creative arts therapy and somatic education in China.

Vivien Marcow Speiser

Vivien Marcow Speiser is the Director and Professor of the Institute for Arts and Health in The Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Lesley University. She is a licensed mental health counselor, a dance therapist and an expressive arts therapist and educator. Her work has allowed her unparalleled access to working with groups across the United States, Israel and internationally.

Alexandra Baybutt

Middlesex University, Faculty of Arts and Cultural Industries

Alexandra works in movement education, performing arts and research. She has worked extensively in performing arts as movement coach/director, as well as an artist.

Hilda Wengrower

Wengrower teaches and lectures in Israel and internationally. Former academic director of the DMT master’s program at IL3-University of Barcelona, she maintains a private practice which includes supervision. Hilda has published papers and chapters on subjects related to arts therapies in educational settings, DMT with children with behavioral disorders, migration, qualitative research, arts based research and DMT.

Susan Scarth

Susan’s psychotherapy practice integrates humanistic and psychodynamic approaches with body work, movement analysis and creative activity. Susan devises and teaches the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) and Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) in European programmes in Croatia, Estonia, Ukraine, Poland and Portugal.

Diana Fischman

Diana Fischman is director of Brecha – Buenos Aires Dance Movement Therapy Institute, and is an academic advisor and professor at DMT Master at Universidad Nacional del Arte, UNA – Universidad de Buenos Aires. She also teaches at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona DMT Master  Program.

Devika Mehta

Devika Mehta is a practicing Dance Movement Psychotherapist (R-DMP) registered with Association of Dance Movement Psychotherapy, UK (ADMP(UK)) and Indian Association of Dance Movement Therapy (IADMT). She is the Course Director for the Post Graduate Diploma Program in Expressive Arts Therapy at St.Xavier’s College, Mumbai  and faculty for Diploma courses in Dance Movement Therapy.

Warren Nebe

Warren Nebe is an academic, theatre director, arts therapist and activist in the fields of applied arts, arts therapies and arts research. He is the founding Head and Director of  Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand and is a Senior Lecturer. He is a registered member of International Association of Group Psychotherapy (IAGP), American Association of Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy (ASGPP), North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA), Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA)

Julia Morozova

Dance Movement Therapist registered in Russia and The Netherlands, Registered trainer/educator and supervisor with RADMT

Originally trained as a medical doctor, Julia has worked for several years in obstetrics, and at the same time she became interested in psychology and psychotherapy.

Steve Harvey

Dr. Steve Harvey is a psychologist and registered as both a dance/movement, drama and play therapist. He has worked with children and families in the USA, and New Zealand and consulted for many years internationally on the integrative use of the creative arts therapies.

Lama Majaj

Lama Majaj is an Art Psychotherapist, a visual artist and an educator with seventeen years of program development and strategic planning experiences in arts education, healthcare, and humanitarian settings. Recognized for demonstrating a natural aptitude for program optimization, project management research and development.

Sharon Vaisvaser

Dr. Vaisvaser is a Dance/Movement Therapist; she maintains a private clinic and serves as the clinical manager of an ASD kindergarten (Autism Research and Treatment Center). Sharon is a Senior Lecturerat in the School of Society and the Arts (Ono Academic College) in Israel. She completed her PhD in neuroscience at Tel Aviv University;

Elikem Alfred Kunutsor

Elikem Alfred Kunutsor is a Ghanaian, who holds an MA and BA Honours in Dramatic Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa. Elikem majored in Physical Theatre and Design. His approach to the performing arts is rooted in embodied, physical presence rather than genre classifications. He is currently a PhD candidate with the University of Cape Town (UCT).

Karen Studd, CMA

Karen has a Master’s degree from University of Oregon and certification in movement analysis from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. Studd serves on the education committee of IACASE (International Association of Creative Arts Somatic Education) and is also a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator through ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association).