Sarai Louise Hinkley, MA, LCMHC, BC-DMT
she/they
she/they
I am so grateful to have moved and sweated with some of the most liberating teachers of the post-modern dance world; Sara Shelton Mann, Kim Epifano, Keith Hennessy, Anna Halprin, Nancy Stark Smith, KJ Holmes. Studying somatic practices such as contact improvisation, body-mind centering, authentic movement, yoga and bodywork has kept me alive and expressive.
Exploring the edges of my own balance, fear, strength and stamina in the dance studio also led me to dancing outside with trees and climbing on rocks. For more 10+ years I worked as a wilderness guide. I also worked as a licensed massage therapist in San Francisco and Boston offering Shiatsu, Thai massage, Cranio-Sacral, Myo-fascial and Deep Tissue Massage.
In 2010 I completed my Masters degree in Counseling and Dance/Movement Therapy in order to bring the healing power of the body and earth to people without easy access to it. Since then I have been leading expressive therapy groups inside and outside classrooms, hospitals, treatment centers, as well as working 1:1 with a variety of people struggling with disconnection between their body, mind and spirit.
Exploring the edges of my own balance, fear, strength and stamina in the dance studio also led me to dancing outside with trees and climbing on rocks. For more 10+ years I worked as a wilderness guide. I also worked as a licensed massage therapist in San Francisco and Boston offering Shiatsu, Thai massage, Cranio-Sacral, Myo-fascial and Deep Tissue Massage.
In 2010 I completed my Masters degree in Counseling and Dance/Movement Therapy in order to bring the healing power of the body and earth to people without easy access to it. Since then I have been leading expressive therapy groups inside and outside classrooms, hospitals, treatment centers, as well as working 1:1 with a variety of people struggling with disconnection between their body, mind and spirit.
Get in touch with me: [email protected]
Is expressive Therapy
right for you?
- Want to feel more alive?
- Notice a disconnection in your body/mind/spirit?
- Longing for movement/ change in your life?
- Feeling off balance/ out of sync with self?
- Ready for a strength-based, yoga-like therapy?
- Is traditional talk therapy no longer nourishing?
- Tired of talking in circles/ not making progress?
- Curious about what your body is saying?
“The client's self-knowledge expands as her movement, art, writing, and sound provide clues for further exploration. Using expressive arts becomes a healing processas well as a new language that speaks to both client and therapist. These arts are potent media in which to discover, experience, and accept unknown aspects of self. Verbal therapy focuses on emotional disturbances and inappropriate behavior. The expressive arts move the client into the world of emotions and add a further dimension. Incorporating the arts into psychotherapy offers the client a way to use the free-spirited parts of her self. Therapy may include joyful, lively learning on many levels: the sensory, kinesthetic, conceptual, emotional and mythic. Clients report that the expressive arts have helped them go beyond their problems to envisioning themselves taking action in the world constructively.”
Natalie Rogers
