VFTS 2022 2 | Dr. Amber Elizabeth Gray | Cross Cultural Dance/Movement Therapy

FEATURED GUEST: Dr. Amber Elizabeth Gray is a trailblazer in the use of Dance/Movement Therapy, Somatic Psychology and Continuum in global multi-cultural and trauma contexts. She has provided clinical training on the integration of refugee mental health, torture treatment and creative arts, mindfulness, and body-based therapies with survivors and refugees to programs worldwide. Amber developed Restorative Movement Psychotherapy, a resiliency-based clinical approach for mind-heart-body-spirit infused therapies with survivors of interpersonal, complex, ancestral, collective and multi-generation trauma. Her deep immersion in Polyvagal Theory birthed “Polyvagal-informed Somatic and Dance Movement Therapies”, the focus of her upcoming book.



LISTEN & LEARN:

• What Polyvagal-informed Somatic and Dance Movement Therapies are.
• What Continuum is within Dance Movement Therapy.
• The power of expressive therapy approaches to bridge language when working in cross cultural contexts.

RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:

Website: https://ambergray.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmberGrayMovementTherapies
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/restorativeresources/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AELGray
www.expressivetherapiessummit.com
Life on Land: The Story of Continuum, the World-Renowned Self-Discovery and Movement Method