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Below the map is a table, listing practitioners by country.
At the bottom of the page is a list of IBMT Recommended Supervisors
UK Title Address Description Amy Voris Dip IBMT Manchester, UK 
Amy offers individual sessions and group workshops. Her one-to-one work and facilitation practice are concerned with cultivating the qualities of depth, sensitivity and play in relationship. Her background in contemporary dance and current research with Authentic Movement as a creative practice underpin her work as a facilitator. Alongside her studio practice, Amy has taught in higher education since 1999.
Barbara Erber Dip IBMT Edinburgh, Scotland 
Barbara trained as a dance movement psychotherapist. She worked with traumatized adults and children in various settings, focusing on the relationship between physical symptoms and trauma. Barbara offers sessions in private practice and is doing a PhD studying how Authentic Movement increases embodied presence and feelings of safety in everyday life.
Beverley Nolan Dip IBMT Cambridge, UK 
Beverley Nolan Dip IBMT RSME/T
Tel: +44 (0)7957 250 619
Beverley offers individual IBMT therapeutic sessions and small Authentic Movement group work in Cambridge. She integrates somatic themes and techniques into her personal yoga practice and teaching, traveling widely through the UK offering workshops and short training modules.
Brenda Naso Dip IBMT London, UK Brenda Naso Dip IBMT MA RDMP DMP Clinical Supervisor
Brenda is a somatic movement therapist and dance movement psychotherapist. She has experience working with children, adolescents, adults and acute & chronic mental health. She also teaches on the MA DMP at Goldsmiths College. Her practice of Authentic Movement deeply influences her work. She sees in the body’s expressions a potential resource for profound holistic change.
Charlotte Darbyshire Dip IBMT Norwich, UK 
Charlotte Darbyshire Dip IBMT, RSME/T, Advanced Fellow of Higher Education.
Charlotte offers individual sessions in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, as well as group Authentic Movement workshops and Somatic Movement classes.
Her background is in contemporary dance, where she co-founded and later co-directed Candoco Dance Company for disabled and non-disabled dance artists. Charlotte has taught and facilitated somatic movement and dance in a range of professional, community and hospital settings, since 1994.
Her therapeutic work supports a deeper, more conscious connection with the wisdom of our moving body.
Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT Leeds, UK
Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT, PG.Dip ALTHE, BCST, PT, SYT, MSMT/E
Tel: +44 (0)7747 121 291
www.theoldsurgeryleeds.co.uk/#Fabiano
Fabiano holds individual and group sessions as Master Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Senior Yoga Teacher, Pilates Teacher and Professional Supervisor, registered with ISMETA, ICrA, YAP, CNHC. Practicing since 2002 throughout UK, Europe, USA, Russia and Iceland, confirms to Fabiano that the human need to return to the body is universal. He invests deep respect for transformation that arises through aware relational practices, offering physical, emotional, and psychological resources for living. His personal somatic inquiry sustains his therapeutic and educational witnessing, as does peer and professional supervision.
Gaelin Little Dip IBMT Norwich, UK 
Gaelin Little MA, Dip IBMT, RSMT
Gaelin is a registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator. She offers individual sessions and facilitates fun and expansive group classes and workshops. Alongside her therapeutic practice Gaelin also works as a dance artist, this underpins her understanding of the body in all its richness and wisdom. She is creative co-director of dance quartet Eleven Farrer House and inclusive company Compass Dance and assistant director of Undercurrent.
Tel 07419310956
Jane Okondo Dip IBMT Blackheath, London 
Jane Okondo Dip IBMT, MA, MSME, MSMT, CRST, SEP, NAT
Tel: +44 (0)7500 838 563
Jane has a private practice in London offering sessions in IBMT, Somatic Experiencing, Neuro Affective Touch, Continuum and the Discipline of Authentic Movement. She is on faculty for IBMT and the Circles of Four programme. Jane also offers workshops on somatic approaches to working with trauma in Europe and retreats in Continuum and Authentic Movement in her studio in London.
Linda Hartley MA, IBMT Founder North Norfolk, UK 
Linda Hartley MA, IBMT Founder, Cert BMC, MRSMT/E, CTP dip Psych, Teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement
Linda practised for many years as a somatic movement therapist, transpersonal and body psychotherapist, and IBMT trainer. She is a writer, and currently runs group retreats in the Discipline of Authentic Movement in Norfolk. Linda founded and was Director of the IBMT Institute for thirty three years. Her work brings together nearly fifty years of experience in movement, meditation, healing and therapeutic arts.
Mari Winkelman Dip IBMT Stroud, UK 
Mari Winkelman Dip IBMT RSMT MA
Tel: +44 (0)7932 440 827
Mari’s trauma-informed one-to-one somatic therapy supports adults to find safe, meaningful connection to their health and emotional challenges by locating resource and support in their bodies. Her work is client-centred and utilises approaches including dialogue, embodied enquiry and movement. She also facilitates movement groups and workshops, which are designed to support relaxation, interoception and movement exploration.
Paul Beaumont Dip IBMT Totnes, Devon, UK 
Paul Beaumont Dip IBMT, MSMT, Dip Coun, BA (Hons)
Tel: +44 (0)7967 558 254
Paul is a Registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. He offers 1:1 sessions for adults, and for babies, young children and their parents. He works in a private practice, as an associate for an Adoption Consultancy, and visiting lecturer for a number of UK Universities. He is on the UK IBMT Faculty.
Penny Collinson Dip IBMT Morecambe,UK 
Penny Collinson Dip IBMT MA RSME/T
Tel: +44 (0)7979 445169
Penny works in private practice as a somatic movement practitioner, and in community and professional training settings. She also works as a Professional Supervisor. Her background spans thirty years of professional dance/movement including improvisation, contemporary and creative dance. She was senior lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire and course leader of MA Dance & Somatic Well-being: Connections to the Living Body until 2021.
Susanne Barry Dip IBMT Harpenden, UK 
Susanne Barry Dip IBMT RSMT/E Bsc Hons
Tel: +44 (0)7711 847 415
bodywisepilatesharpenden@gmail.com
My passion is the unique interactions between mother and baby. How the body and movement grows the brain and how communication between parents and babies can be joyfully enhanced by Developmental Movement Understanding. I am a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator I hold both private sessions and workshops.
Melissa Softley Dip IBMT London, UK 
Dip IBMT, CET (level 4), RYT (BWY), PgDip, BSc (Chem). With a passion for the poetic and profound intelligence of the body, Melissa teaches both A&P and Movement practices. As a Movement Therapy student with IBMT she found a transformative practice, offered with deep respect for our shared human being-ness, woven together with rigour, compassion and creativity. She offers:- Weekly classes of blended yoga and somatic enquiry
- Experiential embodiment themed workshops
- Anatomy trainings
- 121 therapy
Tel: 07815 624 368 Ali Rose Dip IBMT Chepstow, UK 
Ali Rose Dip IBMT, RYT (BWY)
From Bristol and Chepstow Ali offers both individual Somatic Movement Therapy and group somatic embodiment sessions. Passionate about somatic approaches to therapy she founded The Soma Rooms as a hub for holistic body-mind therapies. Through dialogue, movement and clothed bodywork her work seeks to give space for what the body knows as home of our thinking-sensing-feeling-relating self.
Aki Amori Dip IBMT Camden, London 
Aki Omori Dip IBMT, BMC®, NARM, RSME/T +44 7966204842 Aki is a registered somatic movement educator / therapist and a certified teacher of Body-Mind Centering® and a faculty member of Emdbody-Move UK which offers licensed BMC® programs. She is a board member of the BMC® Association and has a Diploma with IBMT. She is also a certified practitioner of Neuro Affective Relational Model, which is a form of early trauma therapy for adult clients. Passionate about infant developmental movement and somatic psychology of human development. She taught yoga for 20 years and is on the faculty of several yoga teachers training programs where she teaches somatic approach to anatomy and movement. She offers individual sessions for somatic movement therapy and integrated somatic trauma therapy for adult clients seeking relief from early developmental trauma.
Ali Rose Dip IBMT Bristol, UK
Ali Rose Dip IBMT, RYT (BWY)
From Bristol and Chepstow Ali offers both individual Somatic Movement Therapy and group somatic embodiment sessions. Passionate about somatic approaches to therapy she founded The Soma Rooms as a hub for holistic body-mind therapies. Through dialogue, movement and clothed bodywork her work seeks to give space for what the body knows as home of our thinking-sensing-feeling-relating self.
Louisa Jane White Dip IBMT Hampshire 
Louisa Jane White: Dip IBMT, IQCL SDM, BA Hons, RSME/T FRYOG 300
Louisa is a somatic movement therapist and educator working 1:1 and in groups in the Hampshire area. She works with women, families, and children, specialising in health and social care settings with elders living with dementia. Louisa is also an Internationally Qualified Course Leader of SDM an approach to movement which she shares with SEND teachers & therapists.
Hayley Nettle Dip IBMT Totnes, Devon UK 
Hayley Nettle Dip IBMT, RSME/T, PG Dip, Dip Yoga Therapy, Dip YT 1400
Hayley is an ISMETA registered, somatic movement therapist and educator (RSMT, RSME). Her Collaborative Somatic Therapy practice is based in Totnes and online. She works with individuals, groups and organisations to develop and embody approaches that support inner and outer ecologies to connect and thrive. Her practice is committed to nurturing attuned presence, embodied listening and to tending the threads of relationship with all life. Hayley is currently training in Somatic Experiencing, alongside participating in the Circles of Four programme for the Discipline of Authentic Movement.
Hannah Buckley Dip IBMT Leeds, UK 
Hannah Buckley, Dip IBMT, RSMET/E, BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance Performance.
Hannah offers individual and group sessions. Her work as a therapist supports clients to (re)connect with their bodies as a powerful resource and to find more ease in their lives. Hannah has been a practicing dancer and choreographer since 2010, has been working in the charity sector since 2022 and has lived experience as a carer.
Harriet Quinn Dip IBMT Stourbridge, West Midlands 
Harriet Quinn BA, IBMT Dip, RSME, RSMT
Harriet offers 1-2-1 therapy sessions for both adults and children. She also offers group workshops and classes in the West Midlands. Harriet has a background in dance, yoga and somatic practices with many years of experience in delivering experiential movement education. She works with individuals and groups to cultivate awareness and integration, tuning into the wisdom of the body as resource. Harriet currently works in schools supporting children to access learning, build relationships and find integration of the body mind and spirit. Emma Flint Dip IBMT Devon, UK 
Emma Flint (BA Hons, Dip IBMT) Emma's 30-year career in public service led her to begin the IBMT diploma in 2019. Interested in somatic approaches to trauma-informed co-production in research and service design, she is an NHS peer support service lead and fellow of University College London's NIHR Mental Health for All research programme. Emma will be offering one to one and group work from March 2026 in Teignbridge, Devon and online. Contact Details to be added nearer the time.
Russia Title Address Description Anna Feoktistova Dip IBMT Moscow, Russia 
Tel: +7 (915) 184-92-33
Anna offers individual IBMT therapeutic sessions, regular somatic classes for groups, re-birth retreats. Mother of two home-born boys, she supports on the path of the motherhood. An assistant teacher on the IBMT program in Moscow from 2022.
I’m in love with the wisdom, indwelling in the body and its movement. The creative power vibrates in cells of our bodies, shows how to be a co-creator of your own life, how to be in intimacy with yourself and the Universe. I love to open doors into the creativity for other people through deep meeting with the body-mind.
Anna Titova Dip IBMT Moscow Russia 
Somatic therapist and somatic movement practitioner, Body-Mind Gestalt therapist BMGT, Registered member of ISMETA (RSMT/Е).
Teacher, speaker, organizer and co-host in different projects in the field of somatics, mindfulness business, antistress yoga-therapy and teaching healing practices (osteopathy). Leading group processes and individual sessions.
The organizer of international somatic program Somatic BODY Training in Moscow.
The organizer and creator of projects "Fascia. The Living Matrix" and "Pelvic space: from stress to enjoyment"
Maria Grudskaya Dip IBMT, RSMT/E Moscow, Russia 
Tel: +7 9629 338 312
Maria is a ISMETA registered somatic movement therapist and educator, she offers individual sessions and group classes both online and offline. She is a co-organizer and a teacher of the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow. She has been practicing contact improvisation and somatic disciplines since 2003. Over 10 years she's taught CI, movement improvisation and body awareness in Russia, Europe, Japan, Thailand, Israel. Maria is a co-creator of international CI festivals.
Nina Kungurova Dip IBMT RSMT Moscow, Russia 
+7916 517 5494
Nina is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT, ISMETA) and has a diploma in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. She lives and works in Russia, Moscow. She studied Somatic Psychotherapy, Process Oriented Psychology, Integrative Dance Movement Psychology and Psychotherapy, Trauma Work. More than 15 years she practices Authentic Movement, since 2017 Nina is a Teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement. She offers individual sessions and group work in weekend seminars, year-long groups, and retreats.
Lithuania Title Address Description Auksė Luišaitė-Jauniškė Dip IBMT Vilnius, Lithuania 
Tel.: +370 687 16006
Auksė is a former dancer and choreographer, practitioner of Dance Movement Therapy. She offers individual IBMT and DMT sessions for adults, runs small Authentic Movement group and gives DMT classes for refugees. She integrates creative methods and meditation technics into her work.
Danguole Venslavice, Dip IBMT Vilnius, Lithuania 
Danguole Venslavice, Dip IBMT, RSME, RSMT
Danguole has adapted physical activity for people with psychosocial disoders and has a master degree in rehabilitation. She has work experience of physical activity with various clients. Danguole works as a Body Control Pilates teacher in a private practice since 2004. She also teaches anatomy and kinesiology in Lithuanian music and theatre academy. The interest in embodied movement and a lot of experience in different movement techniques and practices brought her to IBMT studies. Danguole combines all her experience while teaching the exercise or gives sessions as a therapist with special interest in developmental disorders, inclusiveness for movement and psychosomatic pain. She is a trainer for the IBMT faculty.
Lativia Title Address Description Maria Podolskaia, Dip IBMT 
E-mail address: ivamaria0609@gmail.com
Phone number: +37125724733
Maria offers individual sessions on bodywork and movement therapy in Riga and online. In her practice, she focuses on emotional self-regulation, questions of sexuality and shadow work. She’s the right person to address the inner chaos, trauma, anxiety, anger management and depression. She uses a combination of hands-on bodywork, body dialogue and authentic movement. Her approach is gentle, humorous and scientifically based. She works with difficult conditions in a light-hearted supportive way.
Germany Title Address Description Cornelia Schmitz Dip IBMT Lower Saxony, Germany 
Tel: +49 5317 7626
In her private practice Cornelia offers body based psychodynamic psychotherapy, supervision and Authentic Movement for individuals and groups. She also runs workshops in “Bewegungsgewebe”. Her work is rooted in her profound interest in conscious awareness and the subtle and material tissues and processes of our being as embodied human creatures.
Frauke Burchards Dip IBMT Göttingen, Germany 
Frauke has worked in a psychosomatic clinic for over fifteen years. She also offers sessions and workshops in bodywork and dance based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy in a private studio. Children and adults are welcome. In her work she connects detailed knowledge about the physical body with sensation, emotion and the joy of movement.
Spain Title Address Description Leticia Santafé Dip IBMT Madrid, Spain 
Leticia Rua Santafé. DIP IBMT- RSME (ISMETA)
The Infant Movement Developmental pathways, Experiential Anatomy based on the principles of The School of The Body-Mind Centering ®, The Somatic Psychology, The Linklater Voice Technique and her intense training and experience as a professional actress on Theatre and The Performing Arts are the techniques and foundations of her work.
Leticia offers Individual session and Group work as facilitator and educator in the field of Somatic Voice/Body Movement Education. Online work has been an option as well since 2020
She has been facilitating the discovery of the Voice/Body Potentials and creativity of her clients and students for many years now.
She has been giving as well support to babies and children in their development along with their families.
She has worked for many years on The Performing Arts Research and Creative Expression in the field of the Somatic Voice/Body Movement Education.
She is practicing a learner in the Circles os Four of The Discipline of Authentic Movement.
The guide of her mentor teachers ( Kristin Linklater, Linda Hartley, Gloria Desideri, Thomas Greil, Pablo Troccoli, Walburga Waltz, Betina Waissman, Fran Lavendel, Irmgard Halsrup) and the trust and challenges of her clients is a support, guide and nourishes her for many years now.
She has founded and is coordinating the Postgraduate program : SOMart on Voice and Somatic Movement Education for the Arts in Spain. www.formacionsomart.com
Italy Title Address Description Jurga Bliss, Dip IBMT Palermo, Sicily 
Jurga Bliss, dipIBMT, RSME/T
Email: info@somaticbliss.eu
Website: www.somaticbliss.eu
Jurga Bliss (Blinstrubaite-Schultz) offers Polyvagal theory informed somatic therapy sessions online. She applies the Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy (IBMT) approach and methods in her work. Verbal dialogue, movement, associations, imagery, breathwork, intuitive self touch and exercises are used during sessions, in accordance with client’s specific needs, following their pace and process.
Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT Italy
Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT, PG.Dip ALTHE, BCST, PT, SYT, MSMT/E
Tel: UK: +44 (0)7747 121 291
Italy: +39 328 4064322
www.theoldsurgeryleeds.co.uk/#Fabiano
https://mobiusdance.org/atelier
Fabiano holds individual and group sessions as Master Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Senior Yoga Teacher, Pilates Teacher and Professional Supervisor, registered with ISMETA, ICrA, YAP, CNHC, A.CS.I., IABT. Practicing since 2002 throughout UK, Europe, USA, Russia and Iceland, confirms to Fabiano that the human need to return to the body is universal. He invests deep respect for transformation that arises through aware relational practices, offering physical, emotional, and psychological resources for living. His personal somatic inquiry sustains his therapeutic and educational witnessing, as does peer and professional supervision. He is Co-director of Mobius Atelier - a place for Moving Arts and Wellbeing.
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| Amy Voris Dip IBMT | Manchester, UK |
Amy offers individual sessions and group workshops. Her one-to-one work and facilitation practice are concerned with cultivating the qualities of depth, sensitivity and play in relationship. Her background in contemporary dance and current research with Authentic Movement as a creative practice underpin her work as a facilitator. Alongside her studio practice, Amy has taught in higher education since 1999. |
| Barbara Erber Dip IBMT | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Barbara trained as a dance movement psychotherapist. She worked with traumatized adults and children in various settings, focusing on the relationship between physical symptoms and trauma. Barbara offers sessions in private practice and is doing a PhD studying how Authentic Movement increases embodied presence and feelings of safety in everyday life. |
| Beverley Nolan Dip IBMT | Cambridge, UK |
Beverley Nolan Dip IBMT RSME/T Tel: +44 (0)7957 250 619 Beverley offers individual IBMT therapeutic sessions and small Authentic Movement group work in Cambridge. She integrates somatic themes and techniques into her personal yoga practice and teaching, traveling widely through the UK offering workshops and short training modules. |
| Brenda Naso Dip IBMT | London, UK | Brenda Naso Dip IBMT MA RDMP DMP Clinical Supervisor Brenda is a somatic movement therapist and dance movement psychotherapist. She has experience working with children, adolescents, adults and acute & chronic mental health. She also teaches on the MA DMP at Goldsmiths College. Her practice of Authentic Movement deeply influences her work. She sees in the body’s expressions a potential resource for profound holistic change. |
| Charlotte Darbyshire Dip IBMT | Norwich, UK |
Charlotte Darbyshire Dip IBMT, RSME/T, Advanced Fellow of Higher Education. Charlotte offers individual sessions in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, as well as group Authentic Movement workshops and Somatic Movement classes. Her background is in contemporary dance, where she co-founded and later co-directed Candoco Dance Company for disabled and non-disabled dance artists. Charlotte has taught and facilitated somatic movement and dance in a range of professional, community and hospital settings, since 1994. Her therapeutic work supports a deeper, more conscious connection with the wisdom of our moving body. |
| Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT | Leeds, UK |
Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT, PG.Dip ALTHE, BCST, PT, SYT, MSMT/E Tel: +44 (0)7747 121 291 www.theoldsurgeryleeds.co.uk/#Fabiano Fabiano holds individual and group sessions as Master Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Senior Yoga Teacher, Pilates Teacher and Professional Supervisor, registered with ISMETA, ICrA, YAP, CNHC. Practicing since 2002 throughout UK, Europe, USA, Russia and Iceland, confirms to Fabiano that the human need to return to the body is universal. He invests deep respect for transformation that arises through aware relational practices, offering physical, emotional, and psychological resources for living. His personal somatic inquiry sustains his therapeutic and educational witnessing, as does peer and professional supervision. |
| Gaelin Little Dip IBMT | Norwich, UK |
Gaelin Little MA, Dip IBMT, RSMT Gaelin is a registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator. She offers individual sessions and facilitates fun and expansive group classes and workshops. Alongside her therapeutic practice Gaelin also works as a dance artist, this underpins her understanding of the body in all its richness and wisdom. She is creative co-director of dance quartet Eleven Farrer House and inclusive company Compass Dance and assistant director of Undercurrent. Tel 07419310956 |
| Jane Okondo Dip IBMT | Blackheath, London |
Jane Okondo Dip IBMT, MA, MSME, MSMT, CRST, SEP, NAT Tel: +44 (0)7500 838 563 Jane has a private practice in London offering sessions in IBMT, Somatic Experiencing, Neuro Affective Touch, Continuum and the Discipline of Authentic Movement. She is on faculty for IBMT and the Circles of Four programme. Jane also offers workshops on somatic approaches to working with trauma in Europe and retreats in Continuum and Authentic Movement in her studio in London.
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| Linda Hartley MA, IBMT Founder | North Norfolk, UK |
Linda Hartley MA, IBMT Founder, Cert BMC, MRSMT/E, CTP dip Psych, Teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement Linda practised for many years as a somatic movement therapist, transpersonal and body psychotherapist, and IBMT trainer. She is a writer, and currently runs group retreats in the Discipline of Authentic Movement in Norfolk. Linda founded and was Director of the IBMT Institute for thirty three years. Her work brings together nearly fifty years of experience in movement, meditation, healing and therapeutic arts.
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| Mari Winkelman Dip IBMT | Stroud, UK |
Mari Winkelman Dip IBMT RSMT MA Tel: +44 (0)7932 440 827 Mari’s trauma-informed one-to-one somatic therapy supports adults to find safe, meaningful connection to their health and emotional challenges by locating resource and support in their bodies. Her work is client-centred and utilises approaches including dialogue, embodied enquiry and movement. She also facilitates movement groups and workshops, which are designed to support relaxation, interoception and movement exploration. |
| Paul Beaumont Dip IBMT | Totnes, Devon, UK |
Paul Beaumont Dip IBMT, MSMT, Dip Coun, BA (Hons) Tel: +44 (0)7967 558 254 Paul is a Registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. He offers 1:1 sessions for adults, and for babies, young children and their parents. He works in a private practice, as an associate for an Adoption Consultancy, and visiting lecturer for a number of UK Universities. He is on the UK IBMT Faculty. |
| Penny Collinson Dip IBMT | Morecambe,UK |
Tel: +44 (0)7979 445169 Penny works in private practice as a somatic movement practitioner, and in community and professional training settings. She also works as a Professional Supervisor. Her background spans thirty years of professional dance/movement including improvisation, contemporary and creative dance. She was senior lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire and course leader of MA Dance & Somatic Well-being: Connections to the Living Body until 2021. |
| Susanne Barry Dip IBMT | Harpenden, UK |
Susanne Barry Dip IBMT RSMT/E Bsc Hons Tel: +44 (0)7711 847 415 bodywisepilatesharpenden@gmail.com My passion is the unique interactions between mother and baby. How the body and movement grows the brain and how communication between parents and babies can be joyfully enhanced by Developmental Movement Understanding. I am a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator I hold both private sessions and workshops. |
| Melissa Softley Dip IBMT | London, UK | Dip IBMT, CET (level 4), RYT (BWY), PgDip, BSc (Chem). With a passion for the poetic and profound intelligence of the body, Melissa teaches both A&P and Movement practices. As a Movement Therapy student with IBMT she found a transformative practice, offered with deep respect for our shared human being-ness, woven together with rigour, compassion and creativity. She offers:
Tel: 07815 624 368 |
| Ali Rose Dip IBMT | Chepstow, UK |
Ali Rose Dip IBMT, RYT (BWY) From Bristol and Chepstow Ali offers both individual Somatic Movement Therapy and group somatic embodiment sessions. Passionate about somatic approaches to therapy she founded The Soma Rooms as a hub for holistic body-mind therapies. Through dialogue, movement and clothed bodywork her work seeks to give space for what the body knows as home of our thinking-sensing-feeling-relating self.
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| Aki Amori Dip IBMT | Camden, London | Aki Omori Dip IBMT, BMC®, NARM, RSME/T +44 7966204842 Aki is a registered somatic movement educator / therapist and a certified teacher of Body-Mind Centering® and a faculty member of Emdbody-Move UK which offers licensed BMC® programs. She is a board member of the BMC® Association and has a Diploma with IBMT. She is also a certified practitioner of Neuro Affective Relational Model, which is a form of early trauma therapy for adult clients. Passionate about infant developmental movement and somatic psychology of human development. She taught yoga for 20 years and is on the faculty of several yoga teachers training programs where she teaches somatic approach to anatomy and movement. She offers individual sessions for somatic movement therapy and integrated somatic trauma therapy for adult clients seeking relief from early developmental trauma. |
| Ali Rose Dip IBMT | Bristol, UK |
Ali Rose Dip IBMT, RYT (BWY) From Bristol and Chepstow Ali offers both individual Somatic Movement Therapy and group somatic embodiment sessions. Passionate about somatic approaches to therapy she founded The Soma Rooms as a hub for holistic body-mind therapies. Through dialogue, movement and clothed bodywork her work seeks to give space for what the body knows as home of our thinking-sensing-feeling-relating self.
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| Louisa Jane White Dip IBMT | Hampshire |
Louisa Jane White: Dip IBMT, IQCL SDM, BA Hons, RSME/T FRYOG 300 Louisa is a somatic movement therapist and educator working 1:1 and in groups in the Hampshire area. She works with women, families, and children, specialising in health and social care settings with elders living with dementia. Louisa is also an Internationally Qualified Course Leader of SDM an approach to movement which she shares with SEND teachers & therapists.
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| Hayley Nettle Dip IBMT | Totnes, Devon UK |
Hayley Nettle Dip IBMT, RSME/T, PG Dip, Dip Yoga Therapy, Dip YT 1400
Hayley is an ISMETA registered, somatic movement therapist and educator (RSMT, RSME). Her Collaborative Somatic Therapy practice is based in Totnes and online. She works with individuals, groups and organisations to develop and embody approaches that support inner and outer ecologies to connect and thrive. Her practice is committed to nurturing attuned presence, embodied listening and to tending the threads of relationship with all life. Hayley is currently training in Somatic Experiencing, alongside participating in the Circles of Four programme for the Discipline of Authentic Movement. |
| Hannah Buckley Dip IBMT | Leeds, UK |
Hannah Buckley, Dip IBMT, RSMET/E, BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance Performance. Hannah offers individual and group sessions. Her work as a therapist supports clients to (re)connect with their bodies as a powerful resource and to find more ease in their lives. Hannah has been a practicing dancer and choreographer since 2010, has been working in the charity sector since 2022 and has lived experience as a carer. |
| Harriet Quinn Dip IBMT | Stourbridge, West Midlands |
Harriet offers 1-2-1 therapy sessions for both adults and children. She also offers group workshops and classes in the West Midlands. Harriet has a background in dance, yoga and somatic practices with many years of experience in delivering experiential movement education. She works with individuals and groups to cultivate awareness and integration, tuning into the wisdom of the body as resource. Harriet currently works in schools supporting children to access learning, build relationships and find integration of the body mind and spirit. |
| Emma Flint Dip IBMT | Devon, UK | Emma Flint (BA Hons, Dip IBMT) Emma's 30-year career in public service led her to begin the IBMT diploma in 2019. Interested in somatic approaches to trauma-informed co-production in research and service design, she is an NHS peer support service lead and fellow of University College London's NIHR Mental Health for All research programme. Emma will be offering one to one and group work from March 2026 in Teignbridge, Devon and online. Contact Details to be added nearer the time. |
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| Anna Feoktistova Dip IBMT | Moscow, Russia |
Tel: +7 (915) 184-92-33 Anna offers individual IBMT therapeutic sessions, regular somatic classes for groups, re-birth retreats. Mother of two home-born boys, she supports on the path of the motherhood. An assistant teacher on the IBMT program in Moscow from 2022.
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| Anna Titova Dip IBMT | Moscow Russia |
Somatic therapist and somatic movement practitioner, Body-Mind Gestalt therapist BMGT, Registered member of ISMETA (RSMT/Е). Teacher, speaker, organizer and co-host in different projects in the field of somatics, mindfulness business, antistress yoga-therapy and teaching healing practices (osteopathy). Leading group processes and individual sessions. The organizer and creator of projects "Fascia. The Living Matrix" and "Pelvic space: from stress to enjoyment" |
| Maria Grudskaya Dip IBMT, RSMT/E | Moscow, Russia |
Tel: +7 9629 338 312 Maria is a ISMETA registered somatic movement therapist and educator, she offers individual sessions and group classes both online and offline. She is a co-organizer and a teacher of the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow. She has been practicing contact improvisation and somatic disciplines since 2003. Over 10 years she's taught CI, movement improvisation and body awareness in Russia, Europe, Japan, Thailand, Israel. Maria is a co-creator of international CI festivals. |
| Nina Kungurova Dip IBMT RSMT | Moscow, Russia |
+7916 517 5494 Nina is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT, ISMETA) and has a diploma in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. She lives and works in Russia, Moscow. She studied Somatic Psychotherapy, Process Oriented Psychology, Integrative Dance Movement Psychology and Psychotherapy, Trauma Work. More than 15 years she practices Authentic Movement, since 2017 Nina is a Teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement. She offers individual sessions and group work in weekend seminars, year-long groups, and retreats. |
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| Auksė Luišaitė-Jauniškė Dip IBMT | Vilnius, Lithuania |
Tel.: +370 687 16006 Auksė is a former dancer and choreographer, practitioner of Dance Movement Therapy. She offers individual IBMT and DMT sessions for adults, runs small Authentic Movement group and gives DMT classes for refugees. She integrates creative methods and meditation technics into her work. |
| Danguole Venslavice, Dip IBMT | Vilnius, Lithuania |
Danguole Venslavice, Dip IBMT, RSME, RSMT Danguole has adapted physical activity for people with psychosocial disoders and has a master degree in rehabilitation. She has work experience of physical activity with various clients. Danguole works as a Body Control Pilates teacher in a private practice since 2004. She also teaches anatomy and kinesiology in Lithuanian music and theatre academy. The interest in embodied movement and a lot of experience in different movement techniques and practices brought her to IBMT studies. Danguole combines all her experience while teaching the exercise or gives sessions as a therapist with special interest in developmental disorders, inclusiveness for movement and psychosomatic pain. She is a trainer for the IBMT faculty. |
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| Maria Podolskaia, Dip IBMT |
E-mail address: ivamaria0609@gmail.com Phone number: +37125724733 Maria offers individual sessions on bodywork and movement therapy in Riga and online. In her practice, she focuses on emotional self-regulation, questions of sexuality and shadow work. She’s the right person to address the inner chaos, trauma, anxiety, anger management and depression. She uses a combination of hands-on bodywork, body dialogue and authentic movement. Her approach is gentle, humorous and scientifically based. She works with difficult conditions in a light-hearted supportive way. |
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| Cornelia Schmitz Dip IBMT | Lower Saxony, Germany |
Tel: +49 5317 7626 In her private practice Cornelia offers body based psychodynamic psychotherapy, supervision and Authentic Movement for individuals and groups. She also runs workshops in “Bewegungsgewebe”. Her work is rooted in her profound interest in conscious awareness and the subtle and material tissues and processes of our being as embodied human creatures. |
| Frauke Burchards Dip IBMT | Göttingen, Germany |
Frauke has worked in a psychosomatic clinic for over fifteen years. She also offers sessions and workshops in bodywork and dance based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy in a private studio. Children and adults are welcome. In her work she connects detailed knowledge about the physical body with sensation, emotion and the joy of movement. |
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| Leticia Santafé Dip IBMT | Madrid, Spain |
Leticia Rua Santafé. DIP IBMT- RSME (ISMETA) The Infant Movement Developmental pathways, Experiential Anatomy based on the principles of The School of The Body-Mind Centering ®, The Somatic Psychology, The Linklater Voice Technique and her intense training and experience as a professional actress on Theatre and The Performing Arts are the techniques and foundations of her work. Leticia offers Individual session and Group work as facilitator and educator in the field of Somatic Voice/Body Movement Education. Online work has been an option as well since 2020 She has been facilitating the discovery of the Voice/Body Potentials and creativity of her clients and students for many years now. She has been giving as well support to babies and children in their development along with their families. She has worked for many years on The Performing Arts Research and Creative Expression in the field of the Somatic Voice/Body Movement Education. She is practicing a learner in the Circles os Four of The Discipline of Authentic Movement. The guide of her mentor teachers ( Kristin Linklater, Linda Hartley, Gloria Desideri, Thomas Greil, Pablo Troccoli, Walburga Waltz, Betina Waissman, Fran Lavendel, Irmgard Halsrup) and the trust and challenges of her clients is a support, guide and nourishes her for many years now. She has founded and is coordinating the Postgraduate program : SOMart on Voice and Somatic Movement Education for the Arts in Spain. www.formacionsomart.com |
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| Jurga Bliss, Dip IBMT | Palermo, Sicily |
Jurga Bliss, dipIBMT, RSME/T Email: info@somaticbliss.eu Website: www.somaticbliss.eu Jurga Bliss (Blinstrubaite-Schultz) offers Polyvagal theory informed somatic therapy sessions online. She applies the Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy (IBMT) approach and methods in her work. Verbal dialogue, movement, associations, imagery, breathwork, intuitive self touch and exercises are used during sessions, in accordance with client’s specific needs, following their pace and process. |
| Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT | Italy |
Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT, PG.Dip ALTHE, BCST, PT, SYT, MSMT/E Tel: UK: +44 (0)7747 121 291 Italy: +39 328 4064322 www.theoldsurgeryleeds.co.uk/#Fabiano https://mobiusdance.org/atelier Fabiano holds individual and group sessions as Master Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Senior Yoga Teacher, Pilates Teacher and Professional Supervisor, registered with ISMETA, ICrA, YAP, CNHC, A.CS.I., IABT. Practicing since 2002 throughout UK, Europe, USA, Russia and Iceland, confirms to Fabiano that the human need to return to the body is universal. He invests deep respect for transformation that arises through aware relational practices, offering physical, emotional, and psychological resources for living. His personal somatic inquiry sustains his therapeutic and educational witnessing, as does peer and professional supervision. He is Co-director of Mobius Atelier - a place for Moving Arts and Wellbeing. |
Abbreviations
Dip IBMT (Diploma in IBMT)
Fully qualified to practise as an IBMT Practitioner. Has completed a case study and more than 500 hours of training including studies in Infant Movement Development; Authentic Movement and Therapeutic Presence; Embodied Anatomy and Movement Re-patterning; Body Systems and conscious use of touch; Somatic Psychology; and is eligible to become a registered ISMETA practitioner.
IBMT Recommended Supervisors (in Alphabetical Order). For profiles see practitioner listing.
Paul Beaumont (Faculty, UK): paul@paulbeaumont.net
Frauke Burchards (Faculty, Germany): F.Burch@web.de
Penny Collinson (UK): PSCollinson@hotmail.co.uk
Fabiano Culora (UK / Italy): fabianoculora@me.com
Maria Grudskaya (Faculty, Russia) mariagruds@gmail.com
Anna Feoktistova (Faculty, Russia) gras2002@mail.ru
Nina Kungurova (Faculty, Russia) kuninaku@gmail.com
Dasha Shamina (Faculty, Russia) shamina.dasha@gmail.com
Aukse Luisaite (Lithuania) aukse.luisaite@gmail.com
Brenda Naso (UK): brenda_naso@hotmail.com
Beverley Nolan (UK): beverley.nolan@btinternet.com
Jane Okondo (Faculty, UK): janeoko@mac.com or info@ibmt.co.uk
Aki Omori (UK): aki2002@gmail.com
Cornelia Schmitz (Faculty, Germany): corn.schmitz@web.de
Danguole Venslavice (Faculty, Lithuania) danguole.venslavice@gmail.com
Amy Voris (UK): info@amyvoris.com