Connect Play Grow

Play and movement, speaks to the natural developmental language of a child. Clinical therapy with a neuro sequential based therapeutic approach of play dance & movement, supports pathways for a child’s neurodevelopment, emotional regulation, communication, social and relational skills, and formation of the positive self concept.

Children develop and acquire knowledge in their experiences by ‘doing’, and having a supported reflection of their experiences. Play-based and movement-based interventions provide a therapeutic space for expression, inspired movement, imagination, and self-directed play. This is clinically effective because here we are engaging the lower part of the brain- brainstem and limbic processing first (sensory, emotional, relational)- which is where dysregulation resides.

Evidence based benefits:

Physical: Towards a healthy, mobile, functional & expressive body

Emotional: Towards embodied healthy regulated emotions

Social: Towards embodied satisfying reciprocal relationships

Cognitive: Towards healthy executive functioning and healthy enquiring mind

Integration: Towards embodied wholeness, vitality, aliveness

Trauma-Informed

Contemporary neurobiological research into trauma suggests that trauma has a powerful physical component and thus an essential step in addressing trauma in children should be to attend to embodied trauma responses. Because dance movement therapy and play-based therapy works with the psychotherapeutic landscape of the body, children can express themselves, even without words, and can effectively address trauma and emotional and physical dysregulation.

Please get in touch to enquire or for intake forms: info@dancetherapymelbourne.au