As a child engages in movement, play and creative process in therapy, this supports their development and neural integration for positive change.

Early childhood intervention is all about giving children with developmental delay or disability, and their families, supports to enable the child to have the best possible start in life.

At Dance Therapy Melbourne we value and understand the importance of child therapy being movement, creativity and play based to address challenges and concerns, and support a child’s neurodevelopment, emotional regulation, communication, social and relational skills, and formation of the positive self concept.

Children develop and acquire knowledge in their experiences by ‘doing’, and having a supported reflection of their experiences. Our early intervention therapy provides a space for expression, inspired movement, imagination, and self-directed play.

Movement, creative process and therapeutic play are evidenced to support the following areas of development:

Physical: Towards a healthy, mobile, functional & expressive body

Emotional: Towards embodied healthy regulated emotions

Social: Towards embodied satisfying reciprocal relationships

Cognitive: Towards healthy executive functioning and healthy enquiring mind

Integration: Towards embodied wholeness, vitality, aliveness

Contemporary neurobiological research into trauma suggests that trauma has a powerful physical component and thus an essential step in addressing trauma in children should be to attend to embodied trauma responses. Because movement, play and creative arts therapies are based on body awareness, and children can express themselves, even without words, they can effectively address trauma and emotional and physical dysregulation.

Therapy sessions are available in Fairfield, and outreach for private, NDIS or support service funded children, to enquire email info@dancetherapymelbourne.au