Description

I talk with dance movement therapist, Yael Beth-Halachmi M.A. DMTabout parent-child dance therapy and how the power of the relationship may be the key to helping children move through their challenges.

Yael is a Dance Movement Therapist, specialized in Early Childhood and Infant-Parent Mental Health. Recently she has developed an intervention model for ‘Relational Dance-Therapy’ integrating Dance, Dance-Therapy and Dyadic (parent-child) Psychotherapy.   She has been working for many years with young children and their families dealing with developmental and emotional challenges, such as ASD, ADHD and anxiety.  Yael is also a mother of 3 boys, currently living and working in Montreal.

Highlights

• Integrating creative arts therapy and psychotherapy
• Viewing a parent-child interaction from a dancer’s lens
• What is parent-child dance therapy
• What does a relational dance therapy session look like
• The benefits of intervening in early childhood
• How video feedback can be used to improve parent-child mental health
• The various ways attention can look
• The advantage of a “pause”

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Yael's website https://www.yael-dancetherapy.com/

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