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Kathleen Rea

Body & Movement Focused 
Expressive Arts Therapist & Teacher

Description: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. I believe that suffering is often related to challenges in being able to imagine 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 including business people and artists. 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.

Credentials:
  • Expressive Arts Therapy Masters degree
  • Psychology Certificate (Ryerson University)
  • Certified in counselling and psychotherapy by the OACCPP
  • 8 years in private practice
  • Experience with agencies such as Central Toronto Youth Services
  • Former dancer with the National Ballet Company of Canada and Tiroler Landestheatre
  • 15 years experience as a dance teacher.
  • Currently a faculty member at George Brown College Dance
  • Choreographed over 30 ballets for main stage productions

Areas of expertise & experience: Body and movement focused Expressive Arts Therapy. Experience working with anxiety, stress, crisis and depression, body image issues, life-transitions, loss, the effects of trauma, post traumatic stress and a desire to become more embodied.
Arts practice: Dance

Location: Toronto

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