Kinesthetic Empathy: The Keystone of Dance/Movement Therapy

"Sharing common rhythms and movements fosters connection, group cohesion, and community." ~ Dr. Danielle Fraenkel

Watch as Dr. Danielle Fraenkel first connects with her audience via shared rhythmic movement and then explains the integral role kinesthetic empathy plays in building a therapeutic relationship with clients.

Danielle Fraenkel, Ph.D., BC-DMT, NCC, LCAT, LMHC, CGP, received the American Dance Therapy Association’s 2014 Excellence in Education Award. She is the director of Kinections℠, the only free standing institute in the USA that offers all the dance/movement therapy courses required for certification via the alternate route. Besides teaching graduate-level courses at Kinections, supervising student and practicing dance/movement therapists, and seeing adult and adolescent clients both individually and in groups, “Dr. Dance” currently teaches Dance Therapy at the University of Rochester and advises the dance therapy program at the Hochstein School of Music and Dance.

Credentialed in both counseling and dance/movement therapy, Dr. Fraenkel is an innovator. In addition to advising the creative arts therapy master’s degree program at the University of Hong Kong, and creating DMT programs at a variety of agencies and partial programs in western New York, she developed LivingDance while working with people struggling with eating disorders and histories of trauma. Always open to evolution and the healing and creative processes in dance and music, Dr. Fraenkel, in 1998, and musician, Jeffrey Mehr, co-created LivingDance~LivingMusic, a synthesis of human development, creativity, dance, music, bodymind integrity, and counseling.

Dr. Fraenkel has introduced LivingDance~LivingMusic at numerous psychologically oriented conferences, and upon invitation, has written about LivingDance~LivingMusic, in texts devoted to group therapy. Currently, Dr. Fraenkel is developing a two-track training program in LivingDance~LivingMusic, one for educators and the other for therapists. To date, she has brought LivingDance~LivingMusic to a wide range of countries, in the east, west, and mid-east. For more information, please write to kinectionsinfo@kinections.com

For more information on the American Dance Therapy Association, please visit www.adta.org.

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