Caitlin Marvaso
About me
My journey through movement arts has taught me so much about my body. I began dancing after experiencing a great loss and discovered how to move through my grief by dancing. I learned how to identify emotional trauma that had become stuck in the body. This trapped emotion is what can perpetuate physical, emotional, or spiritual suffering that keeps us in a cycle of pain. Moving the emotion through the body, using the modality of dance, helps in the release of pain, and establishes a deeper connection to the self as a whole.
My approach is supportive, open, and flexible; my experience is diverse; I have worked with many many different types of bodies, sexual identities, ethnicities, ages, and sizes. I graduated with a Master’s Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy from John F. Kennedy University and I’ve been teaching embodied movement for the past 8 years. Of those years, I have spent 5 as a Psychotherapist with my own private practice.
I welcome you.
“Dance is how I give my body a voice, it’s the language my body speaks.”
My Work
I combine body-centered psychotherapy, emotionally-focused therapy, and somatic embodiment to assist you in becomming an active participant in your healing. To take what is painful, give it form, and release it into the dance.
I use body-centered modalities such as expressive arts therapy, and emotionally focused therapy, while we explore your movement. I am attachment-based and trauma-focused, exploring internal family systems to help me understand the history of your family line and how that has impacted your mind and body connection. I may incorporate some traditional talk therapy, but the goal here is more moving, less talking.
“When technique becomes unconscious, the dancer’s body is free to express it’s true spirit.”