DR. ALLISON BAKARI-SINGER

I passionately believe in the integration of the body, movement, and creative arts to provide you, the client, with the opportunity for self-understanding and change, where words are necessary but not necessarily enough. This approach gives you the opportunity to bring your whole being to the psychotherapeutic process.

In my personal work, I will use a creative, integrative, intuitive, person-centred approach which will be designed especially for you.

I work with a wide range of difficulties including depression and anxiety, bereavement, complex trauma, sexual abuse, eating disorders, life transitions, and personal and professional development.

Alongside my clinical work I am a Visiting Lecturer, Consultant and lead for Masters Degrees in professional training programmes for universities in the UK and internationally.

I am the Founder and Director of the Centre for Movement and Creative Arts in Psychotherapy (MAPTHY) and the North-Eastern Arts Therapies network (NEAT). Within Neat, I have fostered a community of creative arts psychotherapists and I convene annual two-day conferences plus CPD events.

I was a Co-Director of the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) from 2009-2013 and has recently been elected its Chair.

I have made significant contributions to the fields of Creative Arts Psychotherapies and Dance Anthropology through research publications, conference presentations and various professional engagements including the UN. For my PhD research, I worked with internally displaced people after the war in former Yugoslavia where I worked within an NGO using the arts as a medium for interconnectivity.

Apart from the DMP, I am Registered with UKCP, HCPC, ADMP, BADTh & BWY