Amber Gray
Amber Gray, PhD BC-DMT, (Muxkwudeheenawxkway; Saa’am So Otsi), is an award-winning dance movement therapist, human rights psychotherapist, and authorized Continuum teacher. She has worked for twenty-five years with survivors of human rights abuses, war, torture, historical trauma, and oppression. Equally artist, advocate, author, educator, and therapist, she, her clients, and mentors cocreate survivor- and Spirit-centered, polyvagal-informed approaches to Somatic and Dance/Movement Psychotherapy for interpersonal and collective trauma that are holistic, relevant, and emergent.
Melissa Walker
Melissa Walker, LPC, CST, R-DMT is a licensed professional counselor, dance/movement therapist, and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist who specializes in intimacy and relationship therapy. Melissa applies Conscious Moving practices in her work with couples to support their creation of inspiring and loving intimate connection. Her book, Whole-Body Sex: Somatic Sex Therapy and the Lost Language of the Erotic Body, was published in January 2021.
Antje Scherholz
Antje Scherholz works as a dance/movement therapist near Bonn, Germany. She trained in stage dance and as an actress, and works as a lecturer for dance and body language. She furthered her education as a dance therapist and Moving Cycle practitioner and has completed her MA at Alanus University. Since 2008 she has engaged in clinical work, as a depth psychology–oriented dance therapist, at the LVR-Klinikum in Düsseldorf and at the Rhein-Klinik Bad Honnef. She has increasingly focused on dance-therapeutic, attachment-oriented treatment of clients with trauma. Since 2012 she has been a deeply convinced Moving-Cycler and a lecturer at conferences and trainings for psychotherapy, dance therapy, at the University of Applied Sciences in Heidelberg, and has various publications to her name.
Thomas Von Stuckrad
Thomas von Stuckrad graduated with a diploma in psychology in 1986 and is the co-founder of the Blaumeier (art and psychiatry) project in Bremen, specializing in experiential work with masks. Since 1991 he has been self-employed in a psychological practice for adults in Cologne, and he is qualified in behavior therapy as well as other therapeutic approaches (Gestalt, systemic therapy, Inner Relationship Focusing). He has been in ongoing training with Christine Caldwell since 1998 and is heartfully engaged in music and singing. In his latest project, Soul and Singing, he leads workshops alongside his wife, Sabine von Stuckrad.
Rachelle Janssen
Rachelle Janssen is a dance/movement therapist who lives in a small town in the most southern province of the Netherlands, Limburg. After completing her bachelor’s degree in Dance/Movement Therapy, she started her own practice working with great passion and pleasure with people who find it difficult to “be at home in their bodies.” Rachelle has been active in addiction care since 2013. While she was employed by both large and smaller institutes, such as Vincent van Gogh and Connection, she worked with groups and provided one-on-one session as well as outpatient treatment. Over the last ten years, her experience within this field of work has moved her toward a different view on addiction. Rachelle has since integrated the Moving Cycle in her sessions and inspires people to move in a way in which they feel like they’re truly living.
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Laia Jorba
Laia Jorba, LPC, PhD (she, her, hers), is a Catalan teacher, counselor, supervisor, and mentor, originally from Barcelona and currently residing in Colorado, the unceded land of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Ute tribes, among others. She holds counseling specialties in Body Psychotherapy and Dance/Movement Therapy. Her clinical interests include working with trauma in the individual and collective bodies, as well as exploring the embodied experience of migration. She has taught at different universities and lectures nationally and internationally.
Gretl Bauer
Gretl Bauer, Diploma in Social Pedagogy, is a dance therapist, teaching therapist, and supervisor in the BTD (a German dance therapy organization), certified Qigong teacher, and Moving Cycle trainer. Bauer is also a freelancer in performative music and theatre projects. Bauer has studied Dance/Movement Therapy since 1989 and worked as a D/M- and play therapist in day treatment and residential psychiatric settings with adults, children, and adolescents from 1991 until her retirement in 2020. Bauer has also been the builder and leader of a sociocultural seminar house in the Northern German countryside since 1988.
Joana Debelt
Joana Debelt is an art therapist and researcher in special education who has been playing with different forms of movement and dance since she was four years old. She joined the Conscious Moving community in 2014. In her current research, she focuses on the body as a source of knowledge and communication.