Ilene Serlin provides dance/movement therapy in different countries to address intergenerational trauma due to loss, isolation, ostracism, and more. Listen to find out why dance/movement therapy is the perfect tool to help survivors express their fears, memories, and beautiful hopes for the future.
Dr. Ilene Serlin is a clinical psychologist and registered dance/movement therapist. She is the founder and Director of Union Street Health Associates and the Arts Medicine Program at California Pacific Medical Center. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Past President and Council Representative of the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association, on the Editorial Boards of the Arts in Psychotherapy, the American Journal of Dance Therapy, and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and has taught and published widely in the US and abroad.
Dr. Serlin’s approach draws on her extensive background of training and experience in dance and the arts, Gestalt and depth psychotherapy, and behavioral medicine. She has been dancing for 40 years and trained in Labanatation with Irmgard Bartenieff. She studied and taught with Laura Perls at the New York Gestalt Institute, did her pre-doctoral internship at the Children’s Clinic of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, and taught at UCLA Lesley College, Saybrooke Graduate School, and the California School of Professional Psychology.
Rich background you have. Interested in your work. Would you be interested in collaborating. We have some similarity. I got interested in dance therapy in the mid 80’s. Took authentic movement from Joan Chardorow, Jungian Analyst and dance therapist. Have used active imagination since then. Traveled to Manhatten and took a course from Imgard Bartenieff as well. Took Laban, levels 1 and 2, used it in my writing assessing characterologic issues related to psychodynamics and health: Movement in attachment, trauma, health and illness. I am a nurse since 1968, trauma psychologist since 1992..integrated EMDR therapy and active imagination in movement in the treatment of trauma.
Studied ethnic dance for many decades
Greek, Arabic, Flamenco, Gypsy, Turkish, Sufi, Indian. Developed choreography showing the way through trauma and into the light Gave many concerts/presentations
All written in my book, Dance of Psyche:Rhythm of Consciousness
See christinacampbell.com. Hope you are interested..would like to hear from you.
Hi Dr. Christina Campbell, Ilene won’t see this comment unless she comes back to this post, but I will copy your message and send it to her. Thanks for listening!