DTAA (Prof.DMT) Reg. No. 218-18
Verity Danbold (DTAA, ADMPUK, M(NCP) Accred) is a Dance Therapist specializing in trauma. As both a Dance movement Therapist (Dance movement therapy certification, Kolkata Sanved/TISS Mumbai) and a community theatre dance/social circus specialist (MA Theatre and Development, University of East Anglia) , she has extensive experience working globally with refugees and survivors of sex trafficking, child marriage and torture. She was a Hanny Exiner Memorial Fellow for the DTAA. She currently works with young survivors of sexual abuse in the UK. DMT uses movement as a diagnostic and healing tool, seeing in the body what Ruth St Denis described as “too fine, too deep” for words. She draws from the Sampoornata method, a human-rights based methodology, she campaigns for client rights outside of sessions, while holding a creative, nurturing space for clients to grow as their own advocate. She guides her practice as one of “working through the body what is done to the body.’’ Working in the Global South for over a decade, she celebrates the capacity for movement to transcend cultural and language barriers and to connect with non/pre-verbal clients. She integrates practices such as circus, yoga, and crafts to celebrate the creative, reflective and moving self. In working through the body and movement, she nurtures a practice of body-embedded self-care, encouraging people to reflect on themselves as a tool for healing, strength, and growth
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