Kathleen Rea , (C)OACCPP

I believe our bodies have an inherent wisdom that can lead us towards insight and healing. I incorporate Expressive Arts Therapy with 30 years of experience in professional dance to create a body and movement based style of therapy. I work with youth and adults helping them to break through patterns of anxiety, stress, crisis and depression. My work also includes assistance with life-transitions, loss, the effects of trauma and a desire to become more embodied. When we are suffering, often we have trouble imagining a way through. I hope to offer my clients creative ways to imagine a path through their challenges using body-based knowledge as a guide. I work with individuals from all walks of life, inlcuding business people and artisits. My practice is LGBT friendly and accessible to people with disabilities. The setting is a home dance studio with a sprung floor in a quiet setting.

Education:

• Expressive Arts Therapy Masters Degree (European Graduate School, Switzerland)
• Psychology Certificate (Ryerson University, Toronto)
• Certified in counselling and psychotherapy by the OACCPP
• 10 years as a therapist in private practice
• Former dancer with the National Ballet Company of Canada, Ballet Jorgen Canada and Innsbruck Tiroler Landestheatre
• Currently a faculty member at George Brown College Dance (teaching modern dance) and York University (teaching dance therapy)
• Choreographed over 30 ballets for main stage productions

Presentations:

• Facilitate Arts Toronto, Jan 2011 Movement and Sensation Focused Expressive Arts Therapy