as a dance movement therapist i
about
I'm a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist and Laban Certified Movement Analyst based in Tel Aviv, Israel. My work sits at the intersection of movement science, early childhood development, and the built environment — specifically, what children's bodies communicate about the spaces they're in, and what those spaces can do better.
I hold a Master of Science in Dance/Movement Therapy from the Pratt Institute School of Art (2023) and completed my CMA training at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in Brooklyn, New York.
I am a trained Parental Embodied Mentalizing (PEM™) observer, certified in Dr. Dana Shai's framework for assessing nonverbal risk and protective factors in parent-child interaction.
*work with children and families 0-5 using dance/movement therapy and play therapy techniques.
*activate the developmental and organizational patterns in the brain and body through exercises targeting and laying the foundation for sensory-motor development and neuroplasticity.
as a researcher i
*serve as an Expert Movement Analyst on an NSF-funded project studying bodily expressed emotion, annotating movement in video data across Penn State University, the University of Illinois Chicago, and the Robotics and Dance Lab in Philadelphia.
*presented "Moving Through Space — a workshop on using Laban Movement Analysis as an observational tool for children's play environments" at the 7th Annual Brain, Body & Cognition Conference at the University of Cambridge.
