Description

Ruella Frank, Ph.D., has been exploring early infant movements and their relationship to the adult since the mid-1970s.She brings many years of experience to her work as a gestalt psychotherapist — as a professional dancer, yoga practitioner/teacher, student of various movement theories, and student of Laura Perls, co-founder of gestalt therapy.Ruella is founder and director of the Center for Somatic Studies, faculty at the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, faculty at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, and also teaches throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Russia.This five-episode video series, filmed during an introductory workshop, presents Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy — an approach to psychotherapy from an embodied, relational and developmental perspective. It introduces a methodology where psychotherapists can develop sensitivity to their clients and their own movement experiences so as to better understand the unfolding clinical relationship