Clinical Psychology Meets Dancing

Why dance? Because the body never lies. Partnered dance therapy is more than movement, it’s emotional rehearsal. Research shows it can:

• Lower stress and boost confidence
• Increase emotional and body awareness
• Raise oxytocin and serotonin levels
• Support healing from mood disorders and trauma
• Strengthen memory and neural connections
• Improve trust, attachment, and intimacy

Dance therapy complements traditional treatment. It’s mindful, expressive, and often joyful, a reminder that healing doesn’t always have to be heavy.

• To increase awareness of self and others through consciously engaging the body through shared movement
• To help the individual reclaim their body as an ally, not an enemy
• To help heal attachment issues and facilitate emotional intimacy with a partner
• To alleviate mental distress/disorders

Dance is a metaphor for life and symbolic of the ways we think and feel. Carl Jung believed we need to dance with our shadow selves to become whole. In partnered dance, we can't hide behind words. We move, we feel, we connect. Movement lowers our defences, raises vulnerability and reveals the emotional blocks we carry.

Dance therapy helps us grow comfortable with vulnerability and learn healthier emotional habits over time. Physical proximity exposes defences that are otherwise hidden. Dance reveals our anxieties through the body, even outside our conscious awareness.

This awareness creates space for presence and transformation, what’s known as the relational space, where two subjective selves meet. As mind, heart and body align, our true selves emerge and intimacy deepens. Dance Therapy, where science meets art.