DR. ALLISON BAKARI-SINGER
Therapist
DR. ALLISON BAKARI-SINGER
PhD, MMus, PG Dip, BAHons, BWY Dip
I am a leading Creative Arts Psychotherapist, Dance Anthropologist, Lecturer and Yoga Teacher, I have over 35 years’ experience using movement-based and creative arts approaches in arts, community, education, and psychotherapeutic contexts in both the UK and internationally.
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
Growth with solid foundations
The Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre (CPC) incorporating the North West London (NWLPC) was established in 1984. We are made up of a group of experienced and highly qualified psychotherapists and counsellors. Unlike many organisations, our therapists come from different schools of psychotherapy and offer a variety of approaches. This is because we understand that as a unique individual, one therapeutic approach or a combination of approaches may be more suitable for you than others.