Our guest today is Kim Bevans LMHC, BC-DMT; Kim is a licensed mental health counselor and a board certified dance movement therapist. She is also an EMDR trained therapist that has been in private practice for over 10 years. Kim enjoys integrating somatic and embodied work into individual, couples, and group counseling.

In this episode, Kim not only talks us through the basics, she also shares ideas about getting started with the process of using somatics in session, and does a live demonstration in this episode.

Resources:

1. To get the Embodied Skills Inventory: kimbevans.com
2. The American Dance Therapy Association https://www.adta.org/
3. The Return to Embodiment Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-return-to-embodiment-consciousness-culture/id1483021630
4. ADTA video on Dance/Movement Therapy and Anxiety Dance/Movement Therapy and Anxiety
5. ADTA video on Kinesthetic Empathy The Keystone of Dance/Movement Therapy Kinesthetic Empathy: The Keystone of Dance/Movement Therapy
6. Hakomi Institute https://hakomiinstitute.com/
7. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy https://sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/about/#mission
8. Somatic Experiencing https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/somatic-experiencing
9. Amber Gray, polyvagal informed movement therapies: https://ambergray.com/

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