Co-founder
and Ex-President of the Spanish Association for Dance Movement Therapy
"Asociación Española de Danza Movimiento Terapia"
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ADMTE, Barcelona: www.danzamovimientoterapia.com
Editor
of the first spanish speaking book about DMT: "El Cuerpo en
Psicoterapia. Teoría y práctica de la Danza
Movimiento
Terapia" de Gedisa editorial, Barcelona, 2005.
PhD research student at Hertfordshire University,
England.
Master of Arts in Dance Movement
Therapy "Laban Centre for Movement and Dance", London University).
Diploma in Dance (St. Stiofain College, Cork, Ireland).
Special needs teacher (Pädagogische Akademie, Graz, Austria).
Activities 1999
– today:
Lecturer in the introductory courses of dance
movement therapy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Dance Movement Psychotherapist in private
practice,
Barcelona (Sagrada Familia): treatment of children, adolescents and
adults.
Member of the International Advisory Panel of "Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy," International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice, Routledge.
Member of the organizing committee of the First International Congress
for Creative Arts Therapies in Barcelona, November 2007.
Head of the organizing committee of the First Luso-Hispanian Symposium
of DMT in Barcelona, July 2005.
Dance
Movement Psychotherapist in
Metáfora, Centre
d’estudis d’art teràpia; treatment of
children,
adolescents and adults.
Lecturer in master programme of art therapy at the
Universidad de Barcelona : "Introduction to movement observation and
analysis."
Lecturer at the First Nacional Symposium
“Las
Aportaciones de las Terapias Creativas en el ámbito
educativo” at the University of Salamanca.
Lecturer of the course “La danza y la
expresión corporal para niños
problemáticos:
Aspectos pedagógicos y terapéuticos” at
the INFEC
of Lleida. Lecturer in the postgraduate programme for music
therapy
at the University of Barcelona. Lecturer for the Psychoanalytic
Association “Associació Catalana de Psicoterapia
Psicoanalítica – ACPP” in Barcelona:
“Broken
attachments and its implications for dance movement therapy."
Lecturer at the introductory courses of
Metáfora, Art Therapy Centre.
Lecturer at the introductory course of the
Instituto de
Músico, Arte y Proceso AGRUPARTE en
Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Lecturer at the introductory course of the
“Associaciao Portuguesa para a Dança Movimento
Terapia” en la clínica psiquiátrica
Miguel
Bombarda, Lisboa.
Lecturer at the course “Danza terapia:
movimiento en
paisajes exteriores e interiores” at the<summer school
“Escola d’Expressió i
Psicomotricitat” in
Barcelona.
Lecturer at the course
“Expresión corporal y
danza para personas de la tercera edad: aspectos
terapéuticos y
pedagógicos” at the University Rovira i Vigili of
Tarragona.
Previous activities:
Lecturer at the University of Dortmund, Germany:
Seminars
"Dance, movement and sports in psychiatry" at the Westfälische
Klinik für Psychatrie, Dortmund
Aplerbeck and "Creativity and
expression in dance."
Dance Movement Psychotherapist at the University
Clinic in
Dortmund, Germany (treatment of emotionally challenging children and
their parents).
Dance Movement Psychotherapist at "Cambridge
House",
school for emotionally challenging children in London, England.
Dance Movement Psychotherapist at "Shenstone
School" for
severely disabled children and adolescents in Crayford, England.
Dance Movement Psychotherapist at "Daleham House",
an
adult outpatient psychiatric unit of the "Bethlam Royal Free" Hospital
in London, England.
Dance Movement Psychotherapist in "Acorn Lodge",
Children’s Ward, Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital in London,
England.
Special Educational Needs Support Teacher at
Barking Abbey Comprehensive School, Barking, Essex, England.
Dance and Movement Teacher at five International
summer
camps for orphans of the SOS Children Village, Caldonazzo, Italia.
Full-time volunteer in a project for long-term
elderly homeless men in the Simon Community, Cork, Ireland.
Volunteer worker in five peace projects in
Northern Ireland and France (Pax Christi, Corrymeela Community).
Volunteer worker in a project for orphaned and
disabled children of the Caritas in Zagreb, Croatia.